[The Loudwater Mystery by Edgar Jepson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Loudwater Mystery CHAPTER XI 16/20
That's an idea.
I'll certainly try him," said Mr.Flexen, and he turned as if to go. But Olivia stopped him, saying: "Do you think, then, that a woman did it, Mr.Flexen ?" "Well, there is a certain amount of evidence which lends some colour to that theory, but I don't want any one to know that," said Mr.Flexen. And then he could have sworn that he heard Olivia breathe a faint sigh of relief. But Colonel Grey broke in in a tone of some acerbity and more anxiety: "It's nonsense to talk of any one having done it in face of the medical evidence--any one, that is, but Loudwater himself.
He committed suicide." "You think him a likely man to have committed suicide, do you ?" said Mr.Flexen. "Yes.
A man of his utterly uncontrollable temper is the very man to commit suicide," said Colonel Grey firmly. "It is, of course, always possible that he committed suicide," said Mr. Flexen in a non-committal tone. "It's most probable," said Colonel Grey curtly. "What do you think, Lady Loudwater ?" said Flexen. "Why, I haven't thought much about it.
I always--I--but now I do think about it, I--I--think it's not unlikely," said Olivia, in a tone of no great conviction.
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