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FOR Pamela it was the worst moment she had ever known. It was clear now that Bernard, the brother to whom she was devoted, was suspected by the police and the public of murder— of the murder of his future father-in-law— and all because of his obstinacy and a distorted sense of honour. Until now, as far as she knew, he had had no secrets from her, it was incomprehensible that he should risk his entire happiness and even his liberty for a whim. She racked her brains to guess what his reason could be.
The idea that he could be compromised with a woman she dismissed at once. Who, outside a few men at his office and his club, were his friends that she did not know? Which of their friends lived near Oldbury or beyond? There were the Winters, but what sort of secret could be about dull, middl
