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Then he blew out the candle, and in five minutes was sound asleep. He was out at six o'clock. He made for the stables, and found Jacques pacing the yard. He smiled at Jacques's dazed look. "What about the horse, Brillon?" he said, nodding as he came up. "Saracen's had a slice of the stable-boy's shoulder sir." Amusement loitered in Gaston's eyes. The "sir" had stuck in Jacques's throat.
But on the first night of Anthony's occupancy of his new house Doyle shot himself beside the stable, where a few stalks of white phlox had survived the building operations. It never reached the newspapers, nor did a stable-boy's story of hearing the dying man curse Anthony and all his works. But nevertheless the story of the Doyle curse on Anthony Cardew spread. Anthony heard it, and forgot it.
The stable-boy's description of the woman who had passed him showed that she belonged to the lower class. To such a person a hundred pounds would be a fortune. She had, no doubt, abandoned the child, and made off with the money. No trace of her was ever discovered. On the day of the appointment the police watched the eastward side of London Bridge without obtaining any result.
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