But Hatherleigh had arrived at Burnham on that Saturday, September the fifteenth, a fortnight before Dr. Monk had returned from abroad and gone up again to his consulting room. Thus, with Hatherleigh at Burnham the whole time and never once having been long enough away from the inn to have got up to Town, it was quite impossible he——
Ah, wait a moment! There was something wrong there! The innkeeper said he distinctly remembered September the fifteenth being a Saturday, but how could that be as he, Larose, remembered seeing quite as distinctly in the case-book that, when the doctor had returned to his practice on October the first, the day he had been seeing patients had been a Wednesday. If October the first had been on a Wednesday, then September fifteenth would have been on a Monday.
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