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When Sylvia calls Howard Grimstone and tell him that she and you know of the secret location of some jewels in his house, he immediately invites you both over. Approaching the imposing mansion, you cast and anxious eye on the dog pen attached to the house. Two huge mastiffs lunge up against the chain-link fence as if they are ready to tear you to bits. Howard Grimstone, his piercing dark eyes watching your approach is waiting, smiling, at the door. “Please come in,” he says, and leads you and Sylvia into the sumptuous house where Harlowe Thrombey lived and died. Behind Grimstone is a hulking thug of a man with a crew cut and a flat unhealthy looking face. “it’s all right, Kenny,” Grimstone says to the thug, who slips into the shadows. Grimstone then turns to greet you as if you were long-lost friends. “of course if there are diamonds hidden here, we shall turn them over to the authorities,” he says, “and if the court rules they belong to you, Miss Ruston. I shall be the first to congratulate you.” Go on to the next page.
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