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They promised; and Hamar, as he took his departure, again glanced at the handsome fur coat hanging on the door. He was hardly out of hearing when Curtis looked across at Kelson. "Do you think he recognised it!" he whispered. "You may bet he did, and he had only just stolen it himself! However, it's his own fault. He told us to lie and steal, and we've done his bidding." "We have indeed!"
Seats were provided for the referees three on the one side of the stage and three on the other; and having seen that everything was fair and square John Martin retired to the O.P. wing, behind which Gladys was concealed. A brief description of "The Brass Coffin" trick, which was the first Messrs. Hamar, Curtis and Kelson proceeded to explain, will, perhaps, suffice.
It is the perfect quiet which Nature alone can give; and it so impressed Hamar that he at once decided that this was the very spot essential for the ceremony of initiation into the Black Art.
"I am afraid not," Philippa agreed sweetly. "Under the circumstances," Captain Griffiths asked, "you will not, I am sure, expect me to dine to-night." "Not if you object to meeting Mr. Hamar Lessingham," Philippa replied.
"That's the Oleander!" Kelson murmured. "Rot!" Curtis snapped. "How do you know? You can't tell from this distance. It might be the Daisy, or the San Marie, or any other ship." Kelson made no reply; Hamar blew his nose, and once again there was silence. The effect of the moonlight had now become weird.
Some few seconds later she told the gardener to see him safely off the premises, but he was nowhere to be found. A week later, Hamar turned up again at the Cottage, and, despite the vigilance of Gladys and the servants, caught John Martin alone.
"'Stay! that will do, she whispered; 'come to my house and I will give you the thousand dollars. You must pretend you are my cousin. "'I will pretend anything, Mrs. Bater, I murmured, helping her into a taxi, 'anything so long as I can be with you." "You got the money?" Hamar queried. "Yes," Kelson said with a smile, "I got the money in fact, everything I asked for."
Then we I that is well, I must have touched my pony pretty hard with my whip and he wheeled and started to run. I'm not sure but I touched Mr. Hamar's horse, too, and he was behaving badly. I really hadn't time to see. I don't know what became of Mr. Hamar. He isn't much of a horseman. I don't believe he had ever ridden before. He may have had some trouble with his horse.
"I believe Jews have different coloured blood to other people." Though Kelson was apprehensive, Hamar did not appear to have heard; his whole attention was riveted on the mirror, on the face of which was a reflection of the moon. "I knew nothing would happen," Curtis cried, "you had better wipe your knife or you'll be arrested for severing some one's jugular. Hulloa! what's up with the cat?"
"To Hamar, Curtis and Kelson to the three of you in common is given the knowledge of inflicting all manner of torments and diseases, of imparting all kinds of injurious properties, and of causing plagues.
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