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Fairly Easy

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I ASTONISH THE INSPECTOR

I was not the only one to tremble now. This man of infinite experience and
daily contact with crime had turned as pale as ever I myself had done in face
of a threatening calamity.
"I shall see about this," he muttered, crumpling the paper in his hand. "But
this is a very terrible business you are plunging me into. I sincerely hope
that you are not heedlessly misleading me."