? ? ? ? "Then how is it that you did not go?"
? ? ? ? "Because I received help in the interval from another source."
? ? ? ? "Why then, did you not write to Sir Charles and explain this?"
? ? ? ? "So I should have done had I not seen his death in the paper next morning."
? ? ? ? The woman's story hung coherently together, and all my questions were unable to shake it. I could only check it by finding if she had, indeed, instituted divorce proceedings against her husband at or about the time of the tragedy.
? ? ? ? It was unlikely that she would dare to say that she had not been to Baskerville Hall if she really had been, for a trap would be necessary to take her there, and could not have returned to Coombe Tracey until the early hours of the morning. Such an excursion could not be kept secret.
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