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 if you come back in an hour, you'll find me here."

"The best thing Miss Tandy can do," remarked the neighbour, "is to come home with me for the night."

'Couldn't do better, ma'am," agreed Wedgwood.

He was presently alone in the flat—alone with the dead man, to make arrangements for whose removal the other men had gone away. But Wedgwood showed no particular interest in the dead man. He scarcely looked at him. He had wished to be alone in the flat, though, and as soon as he knew himself to be so, and secure from observation, he went straight to a corner of the room in which he had seen something lying when he first entered it. Now he picked up that something—a fine diamond, escaped from a ring or a scarf-pin.