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In response to my nameless informant, he as soon as labored on the stables owned through Brian Dowd. i used to be horrified. ’ ‘Why? ’ ‘Mr Dowd and i've exchanged sizzling words,’ acknowledged Fido sourly, ‘on and stale the racecourse. He’s absolutely unscrupulous. All that the general public sees is the never-ending move of good fortune that he’s loved. What’s hidden from them is the deep-dyed villainy in the back of that luck. ’ ‘You sound as though you’re accusing Brian Dowd,’ acknowledged Colbeck. ‘He intentionally infiltrated my stables. ’ ‘Is that what you suspect, sir? ’ ‘It’s visible, Inspector,’ argued Fido. ‘My filly, Merry Legs, has a superb opportunity of profitable the Derby. John Feeny was once despatched over to England to ensure that Merry Legs didn't even run within the race. ’ ‘Then it'll were on your pursuits to prevent him. ’ ‘I’d by no means have hired him within the first position. ’ ‘Why did your coach take the lad on? ’ ‘I suggest to invite him that selfsame query while I meet him later at the present time. Who killed John Feeny, I’m not able to inform you, however the one that dispatched him to England to undercover agent on my filly used to be Brian Dowd. ’ ‘Could or not it's that somebody on the stables took the legislations into his personal palms? ’ questioned Colbeck. ‘When he suspected that the lad were intentionally planted on them, he struck again. ’ Fido was once fuming. ‘I don't hire killers, Inspector. ’ ‘How have you learnt? ’ acknowledged Leeming. ‘Until this present day, you didn’t even comprehend that John Feeny labored at your stables. ’ ‘Do you've gotten any evidence that that's the place he used to be murdered? ’ ‘No, sir. ’ ‘Or any proof to attach the crime to me? ’ ‘None in any respect, Mr Fido. ’ ‘Then I’ll difficulty you to not make any unfounded allegations. rather than badgering me approximately this homicide, you have to be chasing that crooked Irishman, Brian Dowd. ’ ‘I’ve already spoken with Mr Dowd,’ stated Colbeck. ‘You have? ’ acknowledged Fido. ‘I didn’t understand that he used to be during this state but. ’ ‘I went to Dublin to determine him. What your nameless informant did not inform you used to be that the severed head was once destined for eire. It was once Mr Dowd who pointed out a coarse portrait of the deceased and therefore enabled us to maneuver this research directly to one other level. ’ ‘Don’t think a notice that liar instructed you! ’ twisted up Fido. ‘He stated a lot an analogous approximately you, sir. ’ ‘Dowd got down to disable Merry Legs in a roundabout way. ’ ‘That’s natural supposition,’ stated Colbeck. ‘According to Mr Dowd, the explanation that Feeny left eire used to be that there have been no customers of his turning into a jockey there. That should have rankled with the lad. Why should still he aid a guy who advised him frankly that he had no destiny within the saddle? ’ Hamilton Fido took a second to soak up what he were advised. His face remained emotionless yet his brain used to be racing. He seized on one piece of data. ‘What makes you think that the severed head used to be destined for Brian Dowd? ’ he requested. ‘It used to be present in Crewe. ’ ‘Inspector Colbeck appeared heavily on the railway timetables,’ acknowledged Leeming. ‘Not lengthy after that hatbox arrived in Crewe, there has been a connecting teach to Holyhead. ’ Colbeck took over. ‘There used to be additionally the truth that Limerick Lad posed a major problem on your filly and to Lord Hendry’s Odysseus.