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“But how, how, Nick, could any of our crowd be mixed up with that painter? You don’t think he was a gambler, do you?”

“Oh, Lord, no. Jarvis says he doesn’t think Locke knows one card from another. Those people never play cards.”

“Then how, or why, would any of that lot have anything against Maddy?”

“I can’t see that they could—but some one else might have planned to meet her there.”

“Who knew she was going? Why did she go? How did she know of the place? Why”

“Let up on that, Drew. We know she did go there, willingly, and purposely.”