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After they had retired for the night it was customary for the adults to carry on a desultory conversation for a short time before lapsing into sleep, and now that I could understand their language I was always a keen listener, although I never proffered any remarks myself.
What was the object of the murderer, since robbery had no part in it?
At last, when breakfast was over, slipping away from the others, Whitehead jumped out through the hole in the window.
"There doesn't seem to be much," she answered, half laughing.