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"Very extraordinary," he remarked slowly. "No, I don't think this
was a case of suicide. Nor was it a murder for money, else the
jewels would have been taken."
O'Connor looked approvingly at me. "Exactly what I said," he
exclaimed. "She was dead before her body was thrown into the
water."
"No, I don't agree with you there," corrected Craig, continuing
his examination of the body. "And yet it is not a case of drowning
exactly, either."
"Strangled?" suggested O'Connor.
"By some jiu jitsu trick?" I put in, mindful of the queer-acting
Jap at Clendenin's.
Kennedy shook his head.
"Perhaps the shock of the bullet wound rendered her unconscious
and in that state she was thrown in," ventured Walker Curtis,
apparently much relieved that Kennedy coincided with O'Connor in
disagreeing with the harbour police as to the suicide theory.
Kennedy shrugged his shoulders and looked at the bullet again. "It
is very extraordinary," was all he replied. "I think you said a
few moments ago, O'Connor, that there had been some queer doings
about here.


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