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"I'm sorry, my dear," said her father. "I was only " He was interrupted by a crash, a fumbling and a burst of flame. One of the four-branched candlesticks had been upset, and its rose-coloured shades were on fire. Very coolly the two Bellamys' pinched out the flames and replaced the candles. "Hope that didn't startle you, Miss Caldegard," said Randal. "Not a bit," said Amaryllis, smiling.
Needles, before now, have been successfully hunted in haystacks, and perhaps even you, Professor Caldegard, have no adequate conception of how close the meshes are in the net Superintendent Finucane is spreading.
"I thought you'd forgotten it! Ambrotox, of course. I'll tell her, Caldegard. I once heard a man tell his wife, after she'd been chattering to him for twenty minutes, that he'd forgotten to light his pipe all the time she'd been talking. She said it was the best compliment she'd ever had. I shall tell Amaryllis how you forgot Ambrotox."
The very memory of the horrors I went through in curing myself after a course of hashish, gave me faith in my power to push this tremendous experiment to the point I had determined upon, without overshooting the mark." "What was the mark?" inquired Dick. "The appearance," replied Caldegard, "of certain cardiac symptoms which I expected." "Oh, dad!" exclaimed Amaryllis.
"What a clumsy devil you are, Dick," he continued. "I was trying to get the sugar," said Dick. Randal tasted his coffee. "Cook's got one fault, Dick," he said. "She can't make coffee; and we've been spoiled." "Yes, indeed," said Caldegard. "I've never in my life drunk black coffee to beat what your yellow-haired Dutch girl used to make." Randal turned to his brother. "Parlour-maid, Dick.
He pushed an electric button, and almost ran from the room. "You see, sir," said Dick to Caldegard, "as we were coming home in the train from our little day out, poor Miss Caldegard was so tired that she said I must find her a fairy godmother directly we reached town. So I took her straight to the only lady of that rank whom I know. I dare say you know her too it's Lady Elizabeth Bruffin.
You can make the political coves get Scotland Yard and the police of the world working, before you'd get the county bobbies into their trousers." The car drew up in front of the house. "How shall I tell him?" said Randal. "I shall," answered Dick. "You get into tweeds jump." And he went to meet Caldegard at the door. "Good God!" said the old man, when he saw the young one's face.
Then the bright spark came into the tired eyes again, as they searched the face of the father of Amaryllis the spark which Amaryllis says, comes always just before he says something nice. But Caldegard spoke first. "You've had a devilish bad time of it, my boy," he said. "Nothing to what you've been through, sir. It's hell, I know, when one can't do anything."
Having told how Amaryllis had fainted at the sight of Ockley with the knife-point protruding from the back of his neck, he extracted the Webley from his overcrowded pocket. "That," he said, "is the man's gun, which Miss Caldegard found for me." Later, he produced Mut-mut's baag-nouk, laying it, talons upward, beside the Webley. "That was strapped to his hand.
Then, a little more alert, he looked round him, and for the first time saw Caldegard glowering at him across the table with fierce curiosity. "I didn't see you, sir," he said, his heart warming to the old man's piteous face, "or I'd have told you before I spoke to anyone else that Miss Caldegard is perfectly well, though she's a bit done up."
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