![]() Can he prove Strange’s innocence by way of evidence? While his daughter’s case gives Battle an idea, he has realised that he deals with a most peculiar mind he has ever known in his career. For the blow in the head of the woman has been planned to its minute detail in order to implicate Strange for the killing. What does McWhirter’s presence at Sharkhead have to do with the murder? Meanwhile, Superintendent Battle is running out of time. Then he happens to see a woman who is about to do the same. ![]() For months beforehand he attempted to take his life on that spot. On a night in September Angus McWhirter revisits Sharkhead near Gull’s Point. Whilst Superintendent Battle does not answer to her accusation, to his daughter he says: ‘…you are not a thief. I set a little test for her – a word association,’ says Amphrey. ![]() ‘I wanted, not to confront her with her guilt, but to get her to admit it herself. Interestingly, there is no evidence in the case but Sylvia’s confession. ![]() Miss Amphrey, the headmistress, summons her father to lay all the facts against the sixteen-year-old girl. Sylvia Battle admits to have stolen a number of things at school. For the look in her eyes reminds him of his daughter’s. With all evidences points to her, there is little doubt about her being guilty to anyone but Superintendent Battle. Plot: Audrey Strange is on the verge of facing the court, having become a suspect for the murder of an elderly aristocrat woman at her house, Gull’s Point. ![]()
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