The Circular Staircase -- Chapter XIX
CHAPTER XIX: Concerning Thomas
“Mr. Jamieson,” I said, when we found ourselves alone after dinner that night, “the inquest yesterday seemed to me the merest recapitulation of things that were already known. It developed nothing new beyond the story of Doctor Stewart’s, and that was volunteered.”
“An inquest is only a necessary formality, Miss Innes,” he …
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