The Almost Perfect Murder

at her like one insane; then dropped limply into his chair again. It was some moments before he could speak. \"But I never wrote to her in my life!\"

\"Then how could she have known your handwriting?\" asked Mme. Storey.

\"Well, I mean nothing but social notes; answers to invitations and so on.\" He saw that he had made a slip, and added hastily: \"How do you know that she did recognise my handwriting?\"

\"We mustn't waste the afternoon fencing with each other,


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at her like one insane; then dropped limply into his chair again. It was some moments before he could speak. \"But I never wrote to her in my life!\"

\"Then how could she have known your handwriting?\" asked Mme. Storey.

\"Well, I mean nothing but social notes; answers to invitations and so on.\" He saw that he had made a slip, and added hastily: \"How do you know that she did recognise my handwriting?\"

\"We mustn't waste the afternoon fencing with each other,


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