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diff --git a/72235-0.txt b/72235-0.txt index ec7e409..2c72d28 100644 --- a/72235-0.txt +++ b/72235-0.txt @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 72235 *** + -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PONSON CASE *** The Ponson Case @@ -1943,7 +1944,7 @@ open and read it. I don’t know what was in it, but it fairly gave him the pip and he didn’t get over it. He was kind of worried right up to the end.’ -‘You didn’t notice the handwriting or the postmark? +‘You didn’t notice the handwriting or the postmark?’ ‘No.’ @@ -2101,7 +2102,7 @@ should be sent down by the first train. The Inspector met him on his arrival, and explained what he wanted done, showing him the casts of the fifth man’s footsteps. -‘I want you,’ he said ‘to find the man who made those tracks. You need +‘I want you,’ he said, ‘to find the man who made those tracks. You need not mind about the Manor people, I shall attend to them. Get round the country, and make inquiries in the neighbouring towns and villages. Particularly work the railway stations and garages. The man will be @@ -2610,7 +2611,7 @@ the Old Ferry, and rowed back to Halford, arriving at the pavilion about quarter before eleven. There he had waked the caretaker to get the boat in. He had walked to the Drews’, stayed with them some ten minutes, going on to his own house, which he reached about twenty -minute past eleven. Now, first, as to the checking of these hours. +minutes past eleven. Now, first, as to the checking of these hours. Tanner took a sheet of paper, and looking up his note of the times it had taken him to walk the various distances, and estimating for the @@ -4026,7 +4027,7 @@ character was correct. ‘I don’t know nothing about it,’ he growled sulkily. ‘Oh yes, you do. Mr Ponson told me he spent that Wednesday night here, -or a part of it anyway. Is that true? +or a part of it anyway. Is that true?’ Tanner had set his little trap to learn whether the butler had been primed with a story by Cosgrove. His victim did not answer for a time. @@ -5840,7 +5841,7 @@ cards and unhesitatingly drew out Cosgrove’s portrait. ‘That’s ’im, mister,’ he also said decisively. -‘Where exactly did you pick him up? +‘Where exactly did you pick him up?’ ‘In Knightsbridge, not far from Piccadilly.’ @@ -6001,7 +6002,7 @@ garage Jimmy once more congratulated his companion on her success. ‘But we’re not finished yet, Jimmy,’ she answered him. ‘We have to find the woman—the false servant.’ -‘You think it couldn’t have been Cosgrove? +‘You think it couldn’t have been Cosgrove?’ Lois shook her head. @@ -6771,7 +6772,7 @@ those trains left?’ The Superintendent shook his head. ‘It’s just possible,’ he answered, ‘but I hardly think so. Your phone -was received at ’—he referred to a paper—‘4.42. Orders were issued +was received at’—he referred to a paper—‘4.42. Orders were issued immediately, but considering telegraphic delays, they were probably not received at Tavistock till five or slightly after. The men would then have to be collected and instructed. They might have seen those @@ -8432,7 +8433,7 @@ weren’t much loss.’ heavily, I know, and he slipped off quietly one night to the States, and was never heard of again.’ -‘And the other? +‘And the other?’ ‘The elder brother, Tom, was a bad lot too. He had a tragic end. He was drowned. But I don’t think anyone mourned for him. He had @@ -8671,7 +8672,7 @@ interesting. Go on, Mr Tanner.’ ‘Well, sir, that leads me up to a very obvious question. You must have guessed it. You have known Dale intimately in the past; could you -identify him now? +identify him now?’ Tanner sat back in his chair and drew at his cigar. The other did not answer for a moment. Then as he slowly refilled his pipe, he said @@ -9921,5 +9922,4 @@ text: * The word “Anstin” has been corrected to “Austin” (Ch. XV). - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PONSON CASE ***
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