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"I happened to see those candlesticks in the window of Singa Phut's shop the other day, and I made up my mind to buy them when I had a chance. Now, I'm afraid I won't. But how did it happen?" "Oh, well, there isn't much of a story to it," and Donovan's voice showed his disappointment. "Phut I don't know whether that's his first or his last name anyhow, he had a partner named Shere Ali.
We may have to kill a rat in court as we did in Singa Phut's cell." "I think we are coming on," mused Colonel Ashley, when his two visitors had gone. "I am entitled to a bit of recreation," and, opening his book, he read: "Thus you having found and fitted for the place and depth thereof, then go home and prepare your ground-bait, which is, next to the fruit of your labors, to be regarded."
Surely enough, there had been a murder. Shere Ali, Singa Phut's partner, had been found lying on the floor of the little curiosity shop with his head crushed in. "And in the dead man's hand was a ticking watch," read the colonel. For a moment he stared at the words. Then a light seemed to come over his face.
But dere's been annudder murder in town." "Another murder?" "Yes, Colonel. Boys on de streets yellin' extry papers now, all 'bout de murder." "Who is it? Where? When did it happen?" "Jest 'bout a hour ago. It's a man a Indian man whut kept a curiosity shop de same place where yo' an' me was lookin' at dem funny snake candlesticks las' week." "Singa Phut's place? Great Scott, Shag!
In another minute it began to run around the tin floor of its prison, and then it suddenly stopped in its tracks, fell over in a lump and was still. "Well, I'll be " began Donovan, and then, with a look at the colonel, he substituted: "This gets me! It sure does!" "It evidently went right to the heart, just as in Singa Phut's case," observed the colonel grimly.
And Darcy didn't repair Singa Phut's watch when he said he would. It was in getting up early to do this and have the timepiece ready when promised, that he discovered his relative's dead body." "Where did Harry King get that odd coin which made it look bad in his case for a while?" asked Mr. Mason. "Larch gave it to him, unsuspectingly enough, it seems. When Larch went into Mrs.
Singa Phut's body had been removed to another part of the jail. But the cell was as it had been when the final summons came to the East Indian. There were the few poor possessions he had been allowed to have with him simple and apparently safe enough.
Try it on him?" "If you have one, yes. You get my idea, I guess. Some one of Singa Phut's Indian friends, knowing he would rather go out this way than pay the penalty of his crime, brought in a package of his favorite cigarettes.
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