Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-06-16
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click" q frightened scream from AraI
Glossop. a half indignant. wholly ex.
cited roar from the captain, and the
duke. glancing toward them, saw that
they both had got to their feet in q
sort Of panic and were standing there
-, Good Lordp began the duke
Look here, Mr.. Narkom-1 say! This
idiots out of his head"
the m eorta than fr out Of IT, IT, SWUNG
our position! I can stand a fool as
Tar as any man can. Mr., NarkomI
here, you. Mr.. Woodhead or Thick
head or whatever your Internal name
Call spade spade, my dear
captain. The name is Cleek, If you
can't remember my other"
"Cleek" The duke repeated 1t with
a sort of gulp; the captain spat 1t out
as though it were something red1
whined it and tainted:
Yes. captain-Cleek! Oh. I've got
you, my friend, got you foul" said
Cleek in reply. "All but ruined by
the failure of the gold reefs and the
milling and mining companies last
playing bluff game and living on
your credit ever since? A pretty lit
tie scheme you two beauties Matched
up between you to get the old
duchess into your clutches, to rob
her Of the silva stones and to have
Mrs. Glossop and your Hindu ally
slip over to India with them and
claim the reward before the truth Of
your financial condition leaked out
Oh. yes: I've got you. my friend. got
you tight and fast.
"And, captain, I've got something
more as well! I've got the place
where the panel slides in the striped
wallpaper and leads to the wardrobe
with the false back in your own
room; I've got your private papers
I've got the hiding place of the sivs
stones as we'll! Humph! Tainted
like any other human brute whe1
he's pushed to the wall = That's right
Hammond: call the constable in from
outside and take the pair of then
away. Oh. don't waste any pity OF
them. your grace" as the duk(
moved impulsively toward the strick
en- and defeated pair. They. wouldn't
have hesitated to hang you II they
could have turned the evidence you
way and saved their own wretched
skins-and all for pair Of rose pfnl
diamonds that are red enough nowI
God knows. What's that's? Where
nre they? Where you must get
surgeon to abstract them, for
"Ouaoh SouSh SucH UlIIlVUHW
your grace: They are hidden in thu
body itself. embedded in the flesh
damned out Of sight through thos(
cuts in the arms and imbedded undeI
the muscles!
How horrible!'
Yes, isn't it? OH they laid thei
plans well. those two, and they laid
them together. The body would no
be put underground for a long, loni
time, and when 1t was the silva stoneN
would not 20 to earth with 1t. Their
was the specially constructed vault a
Brompton, their private property
They would get the stones while tn
body lay there and nobody would b
whit the wiser.
Ring for glass of wine, you
grace, and after you have steadieX
your nerves I'll take you up stairs an
show you something. In the cap
tain's room there's u wardrobe whic
has false back, and behind that Ia
sliding panel, it's joining hidden b
the stripes Of wall paper, which lead
into the old duchess bedroom. Tha
Is how they got in and got out agai
and left every door and window lock
ed on the inside. When they had hn
ished their work they lit the candlel
and the rest you know. If there
anything to JOY over III this appalling
affair. find it in this fact; l am con
WINGED that the dowager duchess die
lHtcState. -Inat DelnR 80, ana she nav
ing no other living relatives. her prop
crty will no doubt be divided equal
by order of the crownSpetween thre
persons; yourself for one, and thos
two poor. homeless creatures, TOD
Spender and his sister, for the otheri
and as 1t amounts to several million.
sterling dark days are over for 70
and for them forever!' gp
How did l find it out?" said CleeA
answering Narkoms question. as the
drove home through the shadows q
evening together. well. l think
first got a suspicion Of the capital
and his wife when you told me abou
the cut bellrope, because, you see,
Is hardlY--likely that anybody coul
get into the room and cut that with
out disturbing the old lady. and.
she didn't cry out. came to the con
clusion that that somebody mus
certainly be some one she knew an
room would not be unusual. That
once suggested Mrs. Glossop, and tn
possibility Of the lady saying that sh
had heard a noise, and had come U
and found the door unlocked. Tn
captain, who would make his on
trance unheard while they were tain
ing, would cut the rope, throw tn
moose round the victims neck Will
she was Off guard. and the rest woul
follow easily.
But could ind no motive All
could get no actual clue until
looked at the lady's rings. Cleail
the putting of them on was an at
tempt to saccentuate the presume
fact OF their great wealth by ex
hibiting open evidence of how richl