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Somewhere it might be near or far a policeman had heard the shots, and was signalling for help to other policemen along the line by beating on the flag-stones with his night-stick, the New York constable's substitute for the London police-whistle. The noise grew, filling the still air. From somewhere down the road sounded the ring of running feet. "De cops!" cried a voice. "Beat it!"
Through the stillness of the house rang the flat note of a police-whistle. From some distant spot I heard a faint reply. For long I failed to persuade myself that Isobel had not sustained some ghastly injury from the attack of the cat-woman. Memories uprose starkly before me of that hlangkûna and the other dreadful death-instruments of the mad Eurasian doctor.
I had just time to blow on my police-whistle, and then I must have fainted, for I knew nothing more until I found the policeman standing over me in the hall." "Well, who was the murdered man?" asked Holmes. "There's nothing to show who he was," said Lestrade. "You shall see the body at the mortuary, but we have made nothing of it up to now.
Not every young woman would brave, without trepidation, a virago who had cracked a hard-bitten warrior's head with a poker. "Marigold and I will come with you," I said. She protested. It was nonsense. Suppose Mrs. Tufton went for Marigold and spoiled his beauty? No. It was too dangerous. No place for men. We argued. At last I blew the police-whistle which I wear on the end of my watch-chain.
We bore it into the dining-room and set it upon a chair by the side of a window. I took out my knife and proceeded to cut the string. "Wait a moment," said Jonah. "Where's the police-whistle?" "It's all right," said Berry. "James has gone for the divisional surgeon." I pulled off the veil. It was really a speaking likeness of Margery. Two hours later the telephone went. I picked up the receiver.
I felt absurdly as though I were standing on a tremulous tight-rope, high in the air; but Godfrey managed it somehow and started down. And at that instant, there shrilled through the night the high, piercing note of a police-whistle. It rose and fell, rose and fell, rose and fell; and then came poignant silence. The sound stabbed through me.
"Run back to that last turning," he ordered, "and wait there, out of sight. Bring the car up when you hear a police-whistle." The man looked disappointed, but did not question the order. As he began to back away, Smith grasped me by the arm and drew me forward. "We must get to that corner," he said, "and see where the car stands, without showing ourselves."
I had just time to blow on my police-whistle, and then I must have fainted, for I knew nothing more until I found the policeman standing over me in the hall." "Well, who was the murdered man?" asked Holmes. "There's nothing to show who he was," said Lestrade. "You shall see the body at the mortuary, but we have made nothing of it up to now.
"With my bare hands I would strangle her, but " "There must be no marks of violence when she is found in the river. Tchee, chee it is a pity." "Number one p'lice chop, lo!" croaked the raven, following this remark with the police-whistle imitation. Mrs. Sin turned and stared fiercely at the one-eyed bird. "Why do you bring that evil, croaking thing here?" she demanded. "Have we not enough risks?"
Garson shook his head spoke with fiercer hatred, "because he was a skunk, and a stool-pigeon," he repeated. "Have you got it?" And then, as the stenographer nodded assent, he went on, less violently: "I croaked him just as he was going to call the bulls with a police-whistle. I used a gun with smokeless powder. It had a Maxim silencer on it, so that it didn't make any noise."
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