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`` Highly honoured , sir , I am sure . '' `` You appear to have been very prompt and businesslike in all that you have done . Was there any clue , may I ask , as to the exact hour that the man met his death ? '' `` He had been there since one o'clock . There was rain about that time , and his death had certainly been before the rain . '' `` But that is perfectly impossible , Mr. Baynes , '' cried our client . `` His voice is unmistakable .