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peated information already familiar 10
Peter through the newspapers; but
added other facts for him alone.
New Scotland Yard, October 20, 1921.
My Denr Peter Cams: You will
have heard of Pendeans confession
and message 10 you: but you may not
have read full details as they con-
Germ you personally. l inclose his
gift and it is safe to bet that neither
you nor any man will henceforth
possess anything more remarkable. He
made will In prison and the law
decides that | inherit his personal
estate; but you will not be surprised
TO learn that ] have handed it over
to the police Orphanages of my coun-
try and yours in equal proportions.
The facts are these. As the day
approached for his execution. ex-
traordinary precautions were taken,
but Pendean behaved with utmost
restraint gave no trouble and made
no threat. Having completed his
written statement, he asked to be
permitted to copy it on a typewrit-
er, but leave to do SO was not grant
ed. He kept the communication on
his person and he was promised that
no attempt TO read it should be made
until after his execution. Indeed,
lie received this undertaking be-
fore he put pen 10 paper. He pre-
served quiet and orderly manner.
ate well, took exercise with his
guards and smoked many cigarets.
| may mention that the body of
Robert Redmayne was found where
he buried it: but the tides have de-
Elected the beach gravels of Ben
digO's grave and search there has
revealed nothing.
Upon his last night but one. Pen
dean retired as usual and apparently
slept for some hours with the bed
clothes up to. his face. A wardcr sat
OH each side of him and a light was
burning. Suddenly he gave sigh
and held out his hand to the man on
his right.
"Sec that goes TO Peter Cams
it is my legacy" he said. And re-
member that Mark Brendon, is my
heir" He then put small object
into the warders hand. At the same
time he apparently suffered ire
mendous physical CONFUSION. uttered
one groan and leaped up into n sit
ting position. From this he fell for
ward unconscious. One attendant
supported him and the other ran for
the prison surgeon. But Pcndcan
was already dead-poisoned with
cyanide of potassium.
You will remember two facts
which might have thrown light upon
his secret. The first was his accident
in Italy as q youth; the second your
constant interest in peculiar, in
human quality of his expression
which You were never able to under
stand. Both are now explained. He
had. of course secret receptacle
upon his person beyond human
knowledge or power of discovery,
for he says that only his mother
knew of his accident. That accident
was the loss of an eye. Behind an
eye OF glass that took its place had
lain concealed. until he required it,
the capsule of poison found crushed
within his mouth after death.
What the published statement of
this knave has done for me you will
guess. / am leaving the detective
service and have found other occu-
patton. One can only seek TO live
down my awful experience. Next
year my work will bring me to Amer
lea and, when that happens. | shall
be very glad TO see you again should
you permit me to do so-not that
we may speak of the past. with all
its futility and bitterness for me, but
that we may look forward and that
/ may see all is we'll with you in
your days of retirement, honor and