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Rh  Yes, sir.

 At 2.20 P.M. ?  I suppose that was the time, sir.

 Did you dispatch it yourself from the telegraph office on the pier or give it to one of the boys on the platform?  I dispatched it myself, sir.

 Do you remember if there was anybody else in the office at the time?  No, there was nobody else, sir.

 Then how do you account for it that the telegram sent by the other Freda on the train—the telegram to Margaret Schiller—was handed in at the same moment?  [Hesitating, stammering.] Somebody must have come in immediately after me. . . . And now that I remember, while I was writing the telegram to you another lady did come in——  But didn't you say there was nobody else there?