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Updated: May 18, 2025
A new and strange theory to account for "the Oritoga mystery" had presented itself to me a horrible theory, yet, so far as my present data went, a feasible one. Above all, I realized that I had committed a strategical error in openly seeking an interview with Lady Coverly. But I had not, when I had formed that plan, known of the existence of Dr. Damar Greefe.
Coverly laughed in ready agreement with this statement. "Gad! I'm sore at missing this sale." "You needn't miss it. I'll go." "Don't kid an unfortunate " "I'm not joking. If it's worth while, pack up your saffron solitaires all that you dare trust me with and I'll be your gentlemanly representative." "Worth while? Good Lord! I'd probably get a ten-thousand-dollar order!" "Very well. It's settled."
Lady Coverly, then, never set eyes upon her firstborn, and Sir Burnham, who did, readily reconciled himself to the loss of such a daughter.
After supper, Sir Roger de Coverly, the Triumph, and other old-fashioned country dances were introduced, followed by questions, answers and forfeits, and other Twelfth-night games, which were entered into with such spirit and animation, that showed how thoroughly they were enjoyed by those who participated therein, and it was universally allowed by all present to be the most charming thing of the kind they had ever attended, and the grey dawn of day appeared on the eastern horizon ere the last vehicle drove away from the hospitable mansion of Sir Jasper Coleman.
In fact by his inexplicable silence he is, although no doubt unconsciously, affording the murderer time to elude the law." Even as I spoke the words I heard a cab draw up in the street below, and glancing out of the window, I saw Coverly alight from the cab, pay the man and enter the doorway. His bearing was oddly furtive, that, as I thought with a sudden pang, of a fugitive.
"You know and I know that Coverly is innocent and I don't believe that Gatton thinks him guilty." A while longer we talked and then I returned rather wearily to my chair in the room where the air was still laden with tobacco fumes.
For the better part of an hour the two men smoked and talked, and had Coverly overheard their conversation his blood would have chilled and he would have prematurely aged, for his distinguished host, Calvin Gray, the worldly-wise, suave man of affairs, actually permitted himself to be pumped like a farmer's son.
Two months later we were established, Nahémah, Cassim and I, within two miles of the new residence of Roger Coverly and his tutor in Basle.
However, as I have already stated, a native acquaintance there, a very learned Moslem, to whom I had imparted during my residence some idea of the nature of my studies, sent me a long communication containing particulars of the event which had befallen Lady Coverly during her one-night's sojourn in Zagazig.
Coverly admitted without much argument that anybody could probably effect a sale in this instance, if the diamonds were plainly marked with their prices; it would be a mere question of displaying the goods. That was not the point. Gray was a rich, a busy man the idea was fantastic.
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