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Chapter 4

What they find in the room in which the murder was committed.

At the time that the arrest of the Count DeMirole was taking place, Mr. Joseph Peters

was absent from London, being employed upon some mission of a delicate and secret nature

in the town of Slapperton on the slashe. Slapperton is very little changed since the

murder at the Black Mill set every tongue going upon its nine days wonder. There may be

a few more tall factory chimneys, a few more young factory ladies in cotton jackets and

coral necklaces all the week, and in wrestling silks and artificial flowers on Sunday. The

new town, that dingy hangar on of the old town, may have spread a little farther out towards

the bright and breezy country. And the railway passenger may perhaps see a larger veil

of black smoke hanging in the atmosphere as he approaches the Slapperton station than

he saw eight years ago.

Mr. Peters, being no longer a householder in the town, takes up his boat at a hostile

re, and, strange to say, selects a little river of side public house in which he overheard

that conversation between the usher and the country girl, the particulars of which

are already known to the reader. He is peculiar in his choice of a hotel, for the bargemen's

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