on the incoherent, he denied having any quarrel with Chaboyer and repeatedly called to his mother for water, gulping it down greedily. With growing suspicion, Schepers pressed his inquiries until Ar- mand admitted driving to the Chaboyer house in a cutter.

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“T tried the door but it was locked,” he faltered, “so I got back in the cutter and drove away.’ But no amount of

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questioning would wring from him the date of his visit, save that it was around Christmas, and he was alone.

Suddenly Schepers stepped over and whipped a light grey overcoat from the wall. Lacking a belt, it matched the bloodstained belt found in the Chaboyer cabin. “Where did you get this?” he de- manded.

“T — I found it,’ Armand stamimered, gulping down another glass of water, “near Coteau’s barn on Christmas Day.”

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His suspicions now thoroughly aroused, Schepers proceeded to search the house. From a trunk he whipped out a pair of overalls and a fishing jacket that seemed to have been washed recently, but which still bore marks on the left sleeve and shoulder that looked like bloodstains. Rolling them up, he left the house with the feeling that the situation was definitely improved.

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