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"We were great friends a few years ago." It was disturbing to Joan that Harry Luttrell had never spoken to her of this friendship. Was it possible that Stella had a claim upon him of which she herself knew nothing? She sat down at a table in front of Mrs. Croyle. "Tell me," she said.
"Yes, that's her way," said Sir Charles Hardiman. He met Hillyard the day before he sailed for Port Said and questioned him about Stella Croyle discreetly. "She runs to earth when she's unhappy. We shall not see her for a couple of months. No one will." Hillyard turned his back upon the pools of the Khor Galagu at the end of April and wandered slowly down the River Dinder.
Yes, she had been standing in this very spot, the table here upon her left, that chair upon her right, that trifolium in the pattern of the carpet under her feet, when Harry Luttrell had taken her in his arms. What foolish thing was Stella Croyle saying now? "I take back all that I have said to you. If Harry has spoken to you already I have lost that's all. I didn't know," she said.
The majestic anthem of Russia, the pæan of the Marseillaise, the livelier march of Italy, the song of Germany, the Star-Spangled Banner; and long before the band struck into the solemn rhythm of "God save the King," Stella Croyle at all events knew that Calypso had lost. For she saw a flame illumine Luttrell's face and transfigure him. He had slipped out of her reach.
Under her breath Stella Croyle murmured passionately, "Oh, you minx!" As the record ran out a storm of applause burst from the gallery. "Oh, Joan, Joan," cried Harold Jupp, shaking his head reproachfully. "There's the poet kicked right across the room." "Where?" asked Harry Luttrell, looking round for the book. "Oh, it doesn't matter," said Joan impatiently. "It's only an old volume of Browning."
Upwards along a glimmering riband of path, a group of students bore one of their number shoulder-high. Luttrell leaned over the balustrade. The group below halted; speeches were made; cheers broke out anew. "It is the Swedish javelin-thrower. He won the championship of the world this afternoon." "Did he?" asked Stella Croyle in a soft voice at his side. "Does he throw javelins as well as you?
Goodness me, what next, I wonder?" "Just listen how your story works out, Jenny," and Millie Splay set it out succinctly step by step. "Mrs. Croyle never took chloroform as a drug. Mrs. Croyle had no troubles. Mrs. Croyle was quite gay this week. Yet she was found dead with a glass of chloroform arranged between her pillows, so that the fumes must kill her and Jenny Prask was her maid.
He raised the instrument, and playing with the receiver as he stood erect, remarked, "Although I am happy to think that I shall not be called upon to deliver any observations on the occasion of the Chichester flower show next Thursday, I may as well ask one of the newspapers if their local correspondent would give the ceremony some little attention." Stella Croyle took up the telephone book.
I remember buying an ounce of laudanum at a chemist's on London Bridge and taking it home, with the intention of following in the steps of my hero and qualifying to drink it out of a decanter." Stella Croyle had swung round from the fireplace, and was listening now with parted lips. "And did you?" she exclaimed, in a kind of eager suspense. Hillyard shook his head. "The taste was too unpleasant.
"I went up to London to see some one on the editorial staff of the Harpoon," Martin explained. "There were two questions I wanted answers for, if I could get them. You see, according to McKerrel and you, Sir Chichester, say that he is a capable man Stella Croyle died at one in the morning." "Yes," Sir Chichester agreed.
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