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But to-day she was evidently on the point of setting out I did not doubt with the purpose of meeting Eric Coverly; on that day of the irrevocable past she had been free and I had been silent. "You nearly missed me, Jack," she said gayly. "I was just going out."
I leave each to choose his own explanation, but let it suffice that Lady Coverly was awakened some time during the night by the appearance at her bedside of this gaunt and hungry-eyed creature. The result was an illness of a kind very dangerous to one in her delicate state of health.
Regarding the latter there is a very significant point." "What is that?" "The 'voice' on this last occasion was that, not of a woman, but of a man." "I very much regret having to trouble you, Miss Merlin, at such a time," said Inspector Gatton, "but as the paper lodged with you by the late Sir Eric Coverly may throw some light upon a very dark matter, perhaps you will read it to us."
"Speaking of your commissions, how am I going to pay you not for the sale you made, although I wouldn't have done as well, but for the loss you saved the firm and for the risk you ran?" Gray felt a momentary desire to have done with pretense, to confess his true condition and to beg not only a suitable reward for his services, but also as large a loan as Coverly could spare.
"'Tain't Lady Coverly," confided the old man; "it's that there black doctor." "What black doctor?" I exclaimed. "Him they call Doctor Greefe." "Oh," said I, "you call him the black doctor. Is he a negro?" "He's black," was the reply, "black he is although his hair is white. Oh, ah, there's black blood in him all right." "And what has he to do with the man-traps in the Park?"
In my own mind I had never entertained a shadow of suspicion that Coverly was the culprit. Underlying the horrible case I thought I could perceive even darker things a mystery within a mystery; a horror overtopping horror. I had just resumed work, then, when a boy came in to inform me that Gatton had rung up and wished to speak to me.
"That is true," he admitted, "but I will come to this side of the case later; at present I am summing up the evidence against Damar Greefe who is certainly the acting partner in this series of outrages against the members of the house of Coverly. Observe the ingenuity of the Red House plot.
Coverly actually appeared to be relieved at this statement, but he inquired, curiously: "What have you got up your sleeve? You don't need money." "Obviously not. But I know a needy object of charity; a worthy case, I assure you. I can scarcely call him a friend, but I used to admire him greatly, and he is still an agreeable companion a man at once capable, extravagant, entertaining, dissipated.
On their way uptown, the returning hero gave it to him, together with Gus Briskow's check. At the size of the latter Coverly gasped. "Didn't I say you were a good salesman? And Mallow! You got him, didn't you? I told you he was a crook. Just the same, old man, you ran a terrible risk and I feel mighty guilty. Why, those fellows would have killed you." "Probably."
Whether this may be interpreted favorably or otherwise of our countrymen, we shall not undertake to determine. As Sir Roger de Coverly said, perhaps much might be advanced on both sides.
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