The Almost Perfect Murder

and I drank a whisky and soda...Gabbitt must have found the glass! Was it he who gave me away?\"

\"No,\" said Mme. Storey. \"Every servant in the house knew you had been here, and all of them lied.\"

\"Well, bless their hearts!\" he said with a twisted smile. \"I seem to get everybody in wrong. It would have been better if I'd never been born!\"

\"What did your father say to you?\" she asked.

\"He scolded me for having sneaked


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and I drank a whisky and soda...Gabbitt must have found the glass! Was it he who gave me away?\"

\"No,\" said Mme. Storey. \"Every servant in the house knew you had been here, and all of them lied.\"

\"Well, bless their hearts!\" he said with a twisted smile. \"I seem to get everybody in wrong. It would have been better if I'd never been born!\"

\"What did your father say to you?\" she asked.

\"He scolded me for having sneaked


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