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In it were three thousand eight hundred francs , all in notes . '' `` Yet Franklyn told me that he had heard how Yvonne won quite a large sum that night . '' `` She might have done so -- and have lost the greater part of it , '' The Sparrow replied . `` On the other hand , what more feasible than that the old manservant , watching her place it there , abstracted the bulk of the money -- a large sum , no doubt -- and afterwards , in order to conceal his crime , shot his mistress in such circumstances as to place the onus of the crime upon her midnight visitor ? '' `` That the affair was very cleverly planned there is no doubt , '' said The Sparrow . `` There is a distinct intention to fasten the guilt upon young Henfrey , because he alone would have a motive for revenge for the death of his father . Of that fact the man or woman who fired the shot was most certainly aware .