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 pillow, which the head had concealed, offered their mute and ghastly
testimony. Doctor Groom was the first to relax. He raised his great,
hairy hand to the bed-post and grasped it. His rumbling voice lacked its
usual authority. It vibrated with a childish wonder: "I'm reminded that
it isn't the first time there's been blood from a man's head on that
pillow." Katherine nodded. "What do you mean?" the detective snarled.
"There's only one answer to this. There must have been a mechanical
post-mortem rea