"What a blow for friend Carr, too. I did hope that I was going to vindicate him and have him played home by the village band under a triumphal arch with 'Welcome home, Champion of Truth!' picked out in red-white-and-blue electric blubs. Never mind. It's better to lose a wager and see the light than walk in ignorance bloated with gold - Or stop! - why shouldn't Carr be right after all? Perhaps it's just my choice of a murderer that's wrong. Aha! I see a new and even more sinister villain step upon the scene. The new claimant, warned by his minions - "
"What minions?"
"Oh, don't be so pernickety, Charles. Nurse Forbes, probably. I shouldn't wonder if she's in his pay. Where was I? I wish you wouldn't interrupt."
(from Unnatural Death, by Dorothy L. Sayers)
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