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He wanted a ruby heart pierced with a diamond arrow, but I got him off that and onto a blue Brazilian solitaire. We're mounting it in a platinum lady's ring." "What is the price?" "Forty-five hundred, and the value is there." "Have you seen the woman?" Coverly nodded. "The boy is a good picker. I don't blame her much, either, for I've seen a lot of worse-looking fellows than Buddy."
From there I conducted my last experiment with L.K. Vapor, which resulted not in the death of Mr. Addison, but in that of Eric Coverly " Gatton sprang to his feet. "Come along, Mr. Addison!" he cried. But: "The Laurels is empty," came, ever more faintly. "In her Sothic fury, Nahémah fled. The bloodlust is upon her. I warn you.
But assuming that the extraordinary characteristics of this visitor of yours can be explained in some way, by deliberate trickery, for example, might she not be a woman whom Eric Coverly met in Egypt?" I stared silently a while, and then: "In short, a rival of Miss Merlin's?" I suggested. "Precisely. The trick with the photograph was just of the kind one would expect from a madly jealous woman.
Roger Coverly died." "Roger Coverly?" I echoed. "The son of Sir Burnham Coverly," continued Gatton, "and therefore the direct heir to the title. He died somewhere abroad about five or six years ago, and as a result the late Sir Marcus inherited the baronetcy on the death of his uncle, Sir Burnham.
May I ask if Lady Coverly knew of your proposed visit?" "She did not," I said with surprise. "Then I fear your journey has been fruitless. She is an invalid and can receive no one." There was something peremptory and imperious in his manner which I resented, and evidently perceiving this resentment: "I am Lady Coverly's medical adviser," added the Eurasian.
The Inspector was certain, as I was certain, of Coverly's innocence, and he had credited him with an alibi because he knew that if he would but consent to break his inexplicable silence, he was in a position to establish one. Why he had forestalled Coverly I knew not.
I take an assortment of gems with me and beard the nouveau riche right on his derrick floor. Why, I've carried as much as a hundred thousand dollars' worth of merchandise on some of my trips." Coverly sighed regretfully. "Tough luck! Too bad you're not a good jewelry salesman?" "I am," Gray declared. "I can sell anything. As for diamonds I've bought enough in my time to know their value."
Damar Greefe coldly but courteously blocked my path to discussion of the Coverly family; and after several abortive attempts to draw him out upon the point, I recognized this deliberate design and abandoned the matter.
At the ominous interruption I shuddered involuntarily, and called to Smithsye, "What's up, Smithums?" "Guy's cleaning out the fourth form," he replied. At the same moment George de Coverly passed me, holding his nose, from whence the bright Norman blood streamed redly. To him the plebeian Smithsye laughingly, "Cully! how's his nibs?" I pushed the door of the schoolroom open.
The divisional surgeon had gone, and only the local officer remained with Gatton and myself in the building. Sir Marcus Coverly presented all the frightful appearance of one who has died by asphyxia, and although of course there would be an autopsy, little doubt existed respecting the mode of his death.
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