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The Paradise Mystery

CHAPTER XVI
18/19

They'll tell you in detail what I can tell you in a few words and what I ought to have remembered.

It's fifteen years since the famous robbery at Saxonsteade which has never been accounted for--robbery of the Duchess's diamonds--one of the cleverest burglaries ever known, doctor.

They were got one night after a grand ball there; no arrest was ever made, they were never traced.

And I'll lay all I'm worth to a penny-piece that the Duke and those men are gladding their eyes with the sight of them just now!--in Mitchington's office--and that the information that they were where they've just been found was given to the Duke by--Glassdale!" "Glassdale! That man!" exclaimed Bryce, who was puzzling his brain over possible developments.
"That man, sir!" repeated Harker.

"That's why Glassdale was in Wrychester the day of Braden's death.


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