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The Irish Tweed Coat

It all began with the murder of Mr Andrew Carthwaite at Palermo.

He had been found dead in the garden of his villa just outside the town with a stiletto between

his shoulder blades and a piece of rough Irish tweed, obviously torn from his assailant's coat clutched tightly in his hand.

All that was known of Mr. Carthwaite over here was that he was a Yorkshireman, owner of some

marble works in Sicily, a man who employed a great many hands, and that unlike most employers of

labor over there, he had a perfect horror of the many secret societies and socialist clubs

which abound in that part of the world.

He would not become a slave to the ever-growing tyranny of the mafia and its kindred associations,

and therefore he made it a hard and fast rule that no workman employed by him from the foremost

to the meanest hand should belong to any society, club, or trade union of any sort or kind.

At first, robbery was thought to have been the sole object of the crime for Mr. Carthwaite's

gold watch marked with his initials AC and his chain were missing.

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