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One day a fishing-junk hove into sight, just as if it had sailed out of a Maxfield Parrish illustration, swinging there in the mouth of a blood-red sunset ... then, like magic, appeared another and another and another....
The professor had evidently persuaded the inspector to let him carry out this investigation in his own way. "Of course, a man has been killed," he went on, "but it wasn't Parrish, I fancy. He lived in Parrish's chambers; was a lonely man with a hobby, and if the people who saw him about liked to think his name was Parrish, well, it didn't trouble him.
"Don't you agree?" The boy awaited his answer eagerly. "Something very like that," replied the other. Then suddenly he smashed his fist into the open palm of his other hand. "But he wouldn't have taken it lying down!" he cried. "Hartley Parrish was a fighter, Bruce. Did you ever know a man who could best him? No, no, it won't fit! Besides ..." He broke off and thought for an instant.
"At 5.12, let us say, Bude comes back from the servants' quarters to the hall and hears voices from the library. He closes the passage door. Is that right?" Bude nodded. "It would be about two minutes after I saw Mr. Greve the first time," he agreed. "Very well!" The detective resumed his reading. 5.15 P.M. Miss Trevert goes to fetch Mr. Parrish in to tea. She finds the library door locked.
There is no possible or plausible reason why Parrish should have fired first one shot with the silencer and then one without. Therefore, I find myself irresistibly compelled to the conclusion that the shot heard by Mary Trevert was fired by the person who killed Parrish. Do I make myself clear?" "Perfectly," answered Bruce.
When he took the place over at the beginning of the war, they were telling me, it was a little potty concern making toy air guns or lead soldiers or something of the sort. And they never stop coining money now, it seems. Parrish must be worth millions ..." "Lucky devil!" said Trevert genially. "Ah!" observed the doctor sententiously, "but he's had to work for it, mark you!
Collingwood, leaning shoulder to shoulder, read the message that came to Hartley Parrish in the library at Harkings.... ROTTERDAM Rotterdam 25th Nov. Codes A.B.C. Liebler's Personal Dear Mr. Parrish, Your favour of even date to hand and contents noted.
Room 57 contains a number of Edwin Abbey's finely illustrative paintings, the most popular of which is his "Penance of Eleanor," and a collection of his splendid drawings; also important canvases by Theodore Robinson and John La Farge. Room 64 covers a wide sweep, from Church's archaic "Niagara Falls" down to Stephen Parrish, Eakins, Martin, the Morans, Hovenden, and Remington.
And yet the notorious Blogg found no difficulty in buying the schooner 'Industry', taking in a cargo, and obtaining a clearance for Hokianga, in New Zealand. He had shipped a crew consisting of a mate, four seamen, and a cook. Black Ned Tomlins, Jim Parrish, and a few other friends interviewed the crew when the 'Industry' was getting ready for sea.
Robin hesitated. "Yes," he said, "that's fair. I suppose I ought. But there's not much to tell, Bruce. Just before Hartley Parrish was found dead, I asked Miss Trevert to marry me. I was too late. She was already engaged to Hartley Parrish. I was horrified ... I know some things about Parrish ... we had words and I went off.
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