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Updated: June 18, 2025
Jones might have been spared a great deal of trouble. Since the woman committed suicide " "Hold on!" cried the superintendent. "How do you account for the murder of Corbut?" "He must have found the body and robbed it. Probably he took some money and a diamond ring. There was the mark of a ring on her finger, but the ring was gone. "Corbut fled with these things. He engaged Harrigan's cab.
"John brought him to our flat. I sent my husband away, and when he returned a few minutes later, Corbut was dead. John had no guilty hand in either crime. "He fainted at the sight of Corbut's body. When he came to himself, the body was no longer to be seen. I had put it into the trunks. It was I who afterward sent them to Gaspard. "These crimes I committed for love of this man.
Nick, meanwhile, closed the door of the room. Apparently the tragedy was known only to Gaspard and himself and to the guilty authors of it. "Did you see this woman when she came in?" asked Nick. "No." "Who showed her and the man with her to this room?" "Corbut." "Who waited on them?" "Corbut." "Who waited on the people in room A?" "Corbut." "They are gone, I suppose?"
"Then he carried her into room B, and put her in that chair. "At that moment Corbut entered, for the door of room B was not locked. "In some way they bribed him to keep silence. They sent him into room A, where he locked the connecting door on that side. "Jones fastened it on the side of room B and fled.
"So it was for Gaspard's interest, in case he really did this job, and lifted some valuable plunder off that woman, to get Corbut out of the way. "Did he pay Corbut to skip first? And is he now identifying Tom, Dick and Harry for the purpose of bothering us and keeping us busy till he can light out?" "It's worth looking into," said Nick. "At any rate, you stick to Gaspard.
"Ah, Gaspard," said Nick, "who's your waiter on this floor to-night?" Gaspard looked at Nick anxiously. He did not, of course, know who the detective really was, but he remembered him as one who had assisted the police in a case in which that house had been concerned about two years before. "Jean Corbut," replied Gaspard. "I hope nothing is wrong." "That remains to be seen," said Nick.
Even though it could be shown beyond a doubt that Corbut had been murdered in a flat which was rented by Jones, that would not prove that Jones had done it. The murderer was evidently the man who had ridden in the cab with Corbut. And Harrigan, the only witness, had failed to recognize Jones as that man.
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