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"But I can't understand why she should have consented at all, only to alter her mind when Selina died." "I can't understand that myself. But I decline to mix myself up in the matter. You will have to learn the reason yourself." "I intend to," said Mallow rising, "and the reason I am certain is connected with the violent death of her sister!" A speech to which Caranby replied by shaking his head.
"Perhaps she gambles." "Even if she did, Maraquito's salon would hardly be the place she would choose for her amusement. Moreover, Maraquito does not receive ladies. She has no love for her own sex." "What woman has?" murmured Caranby, ironically. Then he added after a pause, "You know that Mrs. Octagon was present when Emilia fell from the plank in the Rexton house?" "Yes.
"Let us say Maraquita," answered Caranby, smiling, "we may as well be grammatical. But this perfume betrays you. Jennings knows that your friends use it as a sign." "Quite so," she answered, "it was clever of Jennings to have guessed its meaning. I invented the idea. But he is ill, and I don't think he has told anyone else about it. He is fond of keeping his discoveries to himself.
Mallow could see that she was surprised when she entered, as, thinking Lord Caranby was incapacitated by the accident described by Juliet, she did not know how he came to call at so late an hour. Moreover, Lord Caranby had never visited her before. However, she apparently was bent on receiving him in a tragic manner, and swept forward with the mien of a Siddons.
Though to be sure," added Jennings in a vexed tone, "Maraquito did not know then, and perhaps does not know now, that I am a detective." "Clancy and Hale will enlighten her," said Caranby, as the vehicle stopped, "will you not come in?" "Not to-night. I will do myself the honor of calling on you later, when I have more to say. At present I am going to sort out what evidence I have.
Why, Caranby would have probably let out the land, and foundations would have been dug for new villas, when our plant would have been discovered." "Who are you, Hale?" "Who do you think?" asked the dying man, chuckling. "One of the Saul family. You have the same eyebrows as Maraquito." "And as Mrs. Herne, who really was Maraquito." "Yes, I know that. But who are you?"
She gave evidence at the inquest I understand. But Selina did not, if Cuthbert informed me rightly." "Selina was ill in bed. She could not come. Afterwards she went abroad. I have often wondered," added Caranby, "why Selina didn't seek me out when death broke my engagement to Emilia. She loved me, and her father being dead, there would have been no bar to our marriage.
But Lord Caranby might be induced to talk no easy matter and from what he said, the mystery of Mr. Octagon's attitude might be elucidated. Only in the past so far as the perplexed young man could conjecture could be found the reason for her sudden change of front.
She heard the heavy footsteps of a policeman draw near and he passed the house, to disappear into the path on the opposite side of the road. When Susan returned to the kitchen she found supper ready. Soon the servants were seated at the table and talking brightly. "Who does that house at the back belong to?" asked Susan. "To Lord Caranby," said Thomas, although not directly addressed.
"I'll get Mr. Jennings to come here as soon as he is on his feet, and that will be to-morrow most probably. But why did Maraquito throw vitriol at Lord Caranby?" "Jennings can tell you that," said Mallow, suppressing the fact that the vitriol had been meant for Juliet. "Perhaps it had something to do with the raid made on the unfinished house which, you know, belonged to my uncle."
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