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The two main divisions of the Spanish fleet were thus about fifteen hundred miles apart when war began on the 25th of April. The neutrality of Portugal made it impossible for Cervera to remain long in his then anchorage, and an immediate decision was forced upon his Government.
It indicates a strong and determined character. I should say that Señora Cervera is a woman of rare qualities." "That is perfectly correct, sir. She is a woman of rare qualities." "What did she decide to do about the diamonds, Mr. Venner?" "She gave me an order for the cross, Detective Carter, to be made and delivered as soon as possible." "This was during your call upon her this morning?"
That the Spanish Government was thus goaded and taunted, at the critical period when Cervera was lying in Santiago, is certain. To that, most probably, judging from the words used in the Cortes, we owe the desperate sortie which delivered him into our hands and reduced Spain to inevitable submission.
Cervera at once began to whistle. Nick removed the key from the chamber door, and sauntered out into the hall, where he kept his ears constantly alert. Not for a moment did the whistling cease, nor was there the slightest change in tone or character. Nick could not have taken a more effective method to serve his present purpose.
"And after Cervera does her turn, in case Venner is there, and she departs with him, you then may leave the couple to me. I'll be waiting for them at the stage door." "Right you are, Nick. So here goes!" Shrewd deductions, indeed, those of Nick Carter. Plainly enough, Garside was quite justified in his apprehension that Rufus Venner had barked up the wrong tree.
A powerful squadron under Admiral Cervera, which had assembled at the Cape Verde Islands before the outbreak of hostilities, had crossed the ocean, and by its erratic movements in the Caribbean Sea delayed our military plans while baffling the pursuit of our fleets.
"Gone," said Cervera, curtly. "Gone?" "I've sacked him along with all the rest." "Not discharged all of your servants?" "Nothing less." "But why?" demanded Venner, with a frown settling about his dark eyes. "You cannot remain here alone." "I don't intend to." "But what are you going to do? When are you going?"
"You will have a chance to look for it at the Tombs," replied Nick, with grim quietude. "Señora Cervera, I want you to go along with me." "The Tombs! Go with you! What do you mean?" "I mean that you are now under arrest." "Arrest! For what?" "For the murder of a girl named Mary Barton," Nick bluntly rejoined, ignoring the woman's increasing display of amazement and resentment.
Señora Cervera is to be congratulated upon having secured the services of two such faithful fellows." Kilgore had all he could do to keep from laughing aloud, so blinded was he by Nick's artful duplicity.
And Nick began to drive it from cover that very night. Shortly before nine o'clock, and just as the two detectives were parting from the Hindoo snake charmer, Mr. Rufus Venner rang the bell at the door of Cervera's uptown residence. It was answered by Cervera herself, much to Venner's surprise. "Where's the butler to-night?" he abruptly demanded, as he entered and closed the door.
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