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The Four Pools Mystery

CHAPTER XXI
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Bring plenty of calcium light, please.

We want to see what we're doing." As the four of us were preparing to start, Terry paused on the top step and nodded pleasantly to the group on the veranda.
"Thank you for your information, gentlemen.

I have no doubt but that it will be of the greatest importance," and he turned away with a laugh at their puzzled faces.
The sheriff and I were equally puzzled.

I should have suspected that Terry, in the role of detective, was playing a joke on them, had he not very evidently got something on his mind.

He was of a sudden in a frenzy of impatience to reach the cave, and he kept well ahead of us most of the way.
"I suppose," said Mattison as he climbed a fence with tantalizing deliberation--we were going by way of the fields as that was shorter--"I suppose that you are trying to prove that Radnor Gaylord had nothing to do with this murder ?" "That will be easy enough," Terry threw back over his shoulder.


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