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"You can consider that you're a lucky man，Mr Downes." "I do，sir.Not even a palpitation!" "You don't quite take my meaning，Mr Downes. You were sitting two seats away，you say?" "Actually I was sitting at first in the next seat to the murderedman-then I moved along so as to be behind an empty seat." "You're about the same height and build as the dead man，aren't you，andyou were wearing a wollen scarf round your neck just as he was?" "I fail to see-"began Mr Downes stiffly. "I'm telling you，man，"said Colonel Anderson，"just where your luckcame in.Somehow or other，when the murderer followed you in，he got confused. He picked on the wrong back.I'll eat my hat，Mr Downes，if that knifewasn't meant for you!"
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However well Mr Downes's heart had stood former tests，it was unable tostand up to this one.He sank on a chair，gasped，and turned purple in theface. "Water，"he gasped."Water......" A glass was brought him.He sipped it whilst his complexion graduallyreturned to the normal. "Me?"he said."Why me?" "It looks like it，"said Crome."In fact，it's the only explanation." "You mean that this man-this-this fiend incarnate-this bloodthirstymadman has been following me about waiting for an opportunity?" "I should say that was the way of it." "But in heaven's name，why me?"demanded the outraged schoolmaster.
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