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proceeded down the main street and was gone for the best part
of an hour; but, before three o'clock, Widgery saw him return
without his parcel. He went fast up the hill out of Brixham,
the way he came. Inquiries to-day show that he passed the
Brixham coast-guard station about a quarter after two o'clock,
and he must have lifted his machine over the barrier at the end
of the coast-guard road, because he was seen by a boy, from
Berry Head lighthouse, pushing it up the steep path that runs
to the downs. The boy was going for a doctor, because his
father, one of the lighthouse watchers, had been taken ill. The
boy says the motor bicyclist was a big man and he was blowing,
because the machine was heavy and the road just there very
steep and rough. He saw no more of him on returning from the
doctor. We are searching the Head and cliffs round about."
Inspector Halfyard waited until Brendon had read the messages and
put them down.


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