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"No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with

pennies and half-pennies-421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It was

no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a

human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between

the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the

weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked

away into the river."

"But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the

room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?"