Word: grisou
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...jumping natives, Freddy kissed his wife, Sir Harry's 19-year-old daughter Nancy, and his friend, the Marquis de Visdelou-Guimbeau, whose coat of arms is three wolves with their tongues hanging out. Then he dove into his car, told the driver to race for home. There Grisou, the Maltese "alibi" cat, stood on his hind legs at the window, making strong noises in his throat...
Where Was Grisou? The first week witnesses were offered by the prosecutors, Attorney General Eric Hallinan and Special Crown Counsel Alfred Francis Adderley, Negro member of London's Middle Temple. Evidence collected at preliminary hearings last summer was presented again: the singed hairs on De Marigny's hands, arms, face and chest; the mark of his little finger on the smoke-smudged white screen that stood by Sir Harry's bed; the light that Neighbor Howard Lightbourne saw burning in the Count's bedroom that night; the fact that the shirt Freddy wore has never turned...
...Marigny, 19-year-old wife of the accused, made themselves felt. Doubt was cast on the cause of the singed hairs; the possibility was opened up that De Marigny might have touched the screen two days after the struggle in Sir Harry's bedroom, and the name of Grisou, an ash-grey Maltese cat, was introduced to explain away the light in Freddy's bedroom...
...Grisou is really Guimbeau's cat. The Marquis Georges de Visdelou-Guimbeau is Freddy's boyhood friend from Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The night of the murder Freddy and Guimbeau gave a party for friends (Nancy was in Maine with her mother). Afterwards Freddy drove two wives of R.A.F. pilots home and, he says, went to bed. This was just after 1. At 3 Guimbeau drove his friend Betty Roberts home, returning 15 minutes later to find Freddy having trouble with Grisou, who would not let him sleep. Guimbeau put Grisou out and went...
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