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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 1612275" data-attributes="member: 4144">Longtree laughs conspicuously at Trevor's remarks.  After about ten minutes' more walking, the men enter the Walton Street police station.  The inspector breathes a sigh of relief."We can talk freely again now.  I wonder who that bloke was..."He leads them down to the morgue, where Dr. Westcott greets them.  He walks over to the slab where the body of the blind man lays.  "Interesting things we've found here, gentlemen.  First, as shouldn't surprise you at all, Mr. Cartwright died due to blood loss caused by the stab wound to the heart."Now onto the blind man, where things are a bit more strange.  I found traces of some post-mortem lividity in the back and buttocks.  The blood should not have begun to pool thusly in a freshly-dead corpse--the only conjecture I can field is that, inexplicable as it may sound, this man was dead for hours before he climbed on that train." Longtree turns back to the group.  "I've dispatched a few men to investigate Cartwright's home in Mortlake.  They should be returning shortly."Kajamba: Make an Intelligence check for Inspector Diggory (DC 14).</blockquote>