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Even if I hated my father, I've no cause to love that branch of our complicated family connections. Hugo whistled. 'I did not think there was so much money there, he said at length. 'There wasn't. The fellow came into twenty thousand two years ago, and he has never earned a cent. 'Yet he's living at the rate of five thousand a year at least. 'It's like him! Ravengar snorted. 'It's like him!
I've hired this room. No doubt existed in his mind that Simon had happened upon the track of the veritable living Ravengar. It could not be a coincidence that a man so strongly resembling Ravengar, a man posing as a doctor, and buying nearly a sovereign's worth of chloroform, should be occupying rooms in the same house as Camilla.
'My clients, he remarked in a peculiar tone, 'had set their minds on this affair. 'For once in a way your clients will be disappointed, said Hugo. 'What do you mean "for once in a way"? 'Who are your clients, Mr. Polycarp? 'Since the offer is rejected, it would be useless to divulge their names. 'I will tell you, then, said Hugo. 'Your client for there is only one is Louis Ravengar.
Of course, inquiries will be made, but they will be futile. People often simply disappear. You will simply disappear. The clock struck six. 'And your conscience? Ravengar muttered. 'It's soon well under control. Besides, I shall be doing the human race, and especially the investing part of the human race, a very good turn.
'I could not permit that mystery to remain for a whole year in the very middle of my block of flats. 'What mystery? Polycarp suavely inquired. During this brief conversation all Hugo's suspicions had hurriedly returned, and he had examined them anew and more favourably. Polycarp? Was it not curious that Polycarp should be acting for both Ravengar and Tudor?... Darcy?
'And seeing that this photograph was taken yesterday morning, and Ravengar fell off a steamer into the Channel more than a week ago! 'But did he fall off a steamer more than a week ago? 'He was noticed on board the steamer before she started, and he wasn't on board when she arrived.
He could not sleep; he had known that he could not sleep. The wild and savage threat of Louis Ravengar, and the question, 'Which? haunted his brain. At one o'clock in the morning he switched on all the lights, rose out of bed, and walked aimlessly about the chamber.
Hence I relate the facts for a private record. When I first met Camilla Payne she was shorthand clerk or private secretary, or whatever you call it, to Louis Ravengar. I saw her in his office. Curiously, she didn't make a tremendous impression on me at the moment. By the way, Polycarp, if it is indeed you who listen to this, you must excuse my way of relating the facts.
He gazed with unseeing eyes into the green and shady recesses of the palmarium, where water trickled and tinkled. What was the power, the influence, the lever, which Francis Tudor was using to induce Camilla to marry him him whom, on her own statement, she did not love? And could Louis Ravengar be in earnest, after all, with his savage threats?
'So you're determined, Louis, said Hugo lightly, 'to bring me to my knees about the transfer of my business to a limited company, eh? 'What on earth do you mean, man? asked Ravengar, whose voice was always gruff. 'I refer to Polycarp's visit yesterday. 'I know nothing of it, said Ravengar slowly, looking across the wilderness of roofs. 'Then why are you here, Louis?
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