IT MAY NOT have been fair, but Theodora’s obviously educated manner and the address she gave saved us from the suspicions of the officer Sherlock brought. She said that she had been visiting a friend fallen on the hardest of times when she was attacked, failing to mention her relationship to the attacker. She said that the gun was his, and that it had discharged accidentally when she fought it away from him. Because it had killed a man, she was required to surrender it. She related the threat he had made and mentioned that Detective Sergeant Robbins should be informed.
By the time we had been taken to the closest station and given tea, questioned once more, and transported back to the Greys’ house, it was too late to hope that we might return and learn anything from Madge.
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