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Updated: June 7, 2025
I'll give it to no one but Clodoche, and not even to him until he gives the secret sign. And then, Mr. Cleek, as she closed the trap I heard the man call back to her 'Good-night' and give her a name I had not heard before. We had always supposed that she had been christened 'Suzanne, but as that man left he called her " "I know before you tell me 'Margot'!" interjected Cleek.
"I guessed the identity of this 'Countess de la Tour' from the moment you spoke of Clodoche and that secret trap. Her knowledge of those two betrayed her to me. Clodoche is a renegade Alsatian, a spy in the pay of the German Government, and an old habitué of 'The Inn of the Twisted Arm, where the Queen of the Apaches and her pals hold their frequent revels.
Cleek, on his knees beside the kneeling baron, whipped a tiny electric torch from his pocket and, shielding its flare with his scooped hands, flashed it upon the old man's face. "Simple as rolling off a log exactly like your pictures," he commented. "I'll 'do' you as easily as I 'do' Clodoche and I could 'do' him in the dark from memory.
They knew instantly and a roar of excited voices yelled out: "Clodoche! Clodoche! Clodoche!" as, snarling and howling like a pack of wolves, they bore down with a rush on the blue-bloused figure that was creeping toward the door. But as they sprang it sprang also! It was neck or nothing now.
Then the man she called her brother kissed her again, and as he descended into the darkness below the trap I heard her say quite distinctly: 'Tell Marise that I will come as soon as I can; but not to delay the revel. If I am compelled to forego it to-night, there shall be a wilder one to-morrow, when Clodoche arrives." "Clodoche! By Jupiter!" Cleek almost jumped as he spoke.
Then the man she called her brother kissed her again, and as he descended into the darkness below the trap I heard her say quite distinctly: 'Tell Marise that I will come as soon as I can; but not to delay the revel. If I am compelled to forego it to-night, there shall be a wilder one to-morrow, when Clodoche arrives." "Clodoche? By Jupiter!" Cleek almost jumped as he spoke.
I'll give it to no one but Clodoche and not even to him until he gives the secret sign. And then, Mr. Cleek, as she closed the trap I heard the man call back to her 'Good night' and give her a name I had not heard before. We had always supposed that she had been christened 'Suzanne, but as that man left he called her " "I know before you tell me 'Margot'!" interjected Cleek.
The countess has left the house and gone I don't know where." "I do, then. Make certain that she's at 'The Twisted Arm, waiting, first, for the coming of Clodoche, and, second, for the arrival of this precious 'Merode' with the remaining half of the document.
Quick" snicking off the light of the electric torch and rising to his feet "into your dressing-room, baron. I want that suit of clothes; I want that ribbon, that cross and I want them at once. You're a bit thicker-set than me, but I've got my Clodoche rig on underneath this, and it will fill out your coat admirably and make us as like as two peas.
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