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"You're quite right. Well?"
"Well, then, this clothes business. Doesn't that seem rather to
bear out the escaping theory? Mark's brown suit was known to the
police. Couldn't Cayley have brought him another one in the
passage, to escape in, and then have had the brown one on his
hands? And thought it safest to hide it in the pond?"
"Yes," said Anthony thoughtfully. Then: "Go on."
Bill went on eagerly:
"It all seems to fit in, you know. I mean even with your first
theory--that Mark killed him accidentally and then came to Cayley
for help. Of course, if Cayley had played fair, he'd have told
Mark that he had nothing to be afraid of. But he isn't playing
fair; he wants to get Mark out of the way because of the girl.
Well, this is his chance. He makes Mark as frightened as
possible, and tells him that his only hope is to run away. Well,
naturally, he does all he can to get him well away, because if
Mark is caught, the whole story of Cayley's treachery comes out."
"Yes. But isn't it overdoing it rather to make him change his
underclothes and everything? It wastes a good deal of time, you
know.
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