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with a thick finger. That was the exact place - no, he was making a mistake - that was the place where the other body had lain. He explained apologetically that he had got rather mixed up between the two bodies - that of Johanna Cobbett and Sophy Hurtle.
And then the coroner intervened authoritatively: "For the purpose of this inquiry," he said, "we must, I think, for a moment consider the two murders together."
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After that, the witness went on far more comfortably; and as he proceeded, in a quick monotone, the full and deadly horror of The Avenger's acts came over Mrs. Bunting in a great seething flood of sick fear and - and, yes, remorse.
Up to now she had given very little thought - if, indeed, any thought - to the drink-sodden victims of The Avenger.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
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