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Mary continued her narration.
"I asked Mr. Sawyer to examine the tools and implements in the mill
workshop and he found a pickaxe, one point of which had been
subjected to rather rough treatment. I naturally connected that
pickaxe with the ledge of rock that had been found in the pond.
"An examination of the night watchman's quarters followed. Mr. Sawyer
could discover nothing until he came to a small cupboard which was
locked. Locks, however, do not keep detectives, or criminals either,
from making further investigations. In the cupboard, he found a coil
of rope. There was a certain peculiarity about that rope of which I
will speak later.
"After that Mr. Sawyer loafed around the mill quite a good deal in
the evenings and became acquainted with Mr. Pinchot the night
watchman. He is a French Canadian. He told Mr. Sawyer that his
parents lived in a small town near Montreal, that they were both
quite old and he was their only living son, although he had five
sisters, all working in the States.
"He had saved some money, and as his parents had a farm, and needed
his assistance, he had resigned his position and the day following
the murder was to have been the last one at the mill. He had
withdrawn his resignation when told that the law would require him as
a witness, and has continued in service.
"Mr. Sawyer then made a trip to Boston and found that Mr.
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