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Inspector Evans is surprised to discover that Mrs. Merrowdene, married to one of his neighbours, is the same one who was found innocent, many years before, in a trial for the murder of her former husband. Evans is certain that a murderer is rarely satisfied with a single crime. Will the inspector be able to save his neighbor in danger, or is this just the fantasy of an old retired policeman?
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Chapter 1
“And I tell you this - it’s the same woman - not a doubt of it!”
Captain Haydock looked into the eager, vehement face of his friend and sighed. He wished Evans would not be so positive and so jubilant. In the course of a career spent at sea, the old sea captain had learned to leave things that did not concern him well alone. His friend Evans, late C.I.D. Inspector, had a different philosophy of life. “Acting on information received had been Iris motto in early days, and he had improved upon it to the extent of finding out his own information. Inspector Evans had been a very smart, wide-awake officer, and had justly earned the promotion which had been his. Even now, when he had retired from the force, and had settled down in the country cottage of his dreams, his professional instinct was still active.
“Don’t often forget a face,” he reiterated complacently. “Mrs Anthony - yes, it’s Mrs Anthony right enough. When you said Mrs Merrowdene - I knew her at once.”
Captain Haydock stirred uneasily. The Merrowdenes were his nearest neighbors, barring Evans himself, and this identifying of Mrs Merrowdene with a former heroine of a cause celebre distressed him.
“It’s a long time ago,” he said rather weakly.
“Nine years,” said Evans, accurate as ever. “Nine years and three months. You remember the case?”
“In a vague sort of way.”
“Anthony turned out to be an arsenic eater,” said Evans, “so they acquitted her.”
“Well, why shouldn’t they?”
“No reason in the world. Only verdict they could give on the evidence. Absolutely correct.”
“Then, that’s all right,” said Haydock. “And I don’t see what we’re bothering about.”
“Who’s bothering?”
“I thought you were.”
“Not at all.”
“The thing’s over and done with,” summed up the Captain. “If Mrs Merrowdene at one time of her life was unfortunate enough to be tried and acquitted of murder
“It’s not usually considered unfortunate to be acquitted,” put in Evans.
