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The first part of my mission I have performed successfully; but the second"... again he shrugged, and the lines of his mouth were humorous. Dr. Cumberly began to walk up and down the carpet. "Poor Leroux!" he muttered "poor Leroux." "Ah! poor Leroux, indeed," said Max. "He is so typical a victim of this most infernal group!" "What!" Dr.
Ferris glanced rapidly at her companion, as a man appeared on the landing, to inquire in an abysmal tone, if "them boxes was ready to be took?" Helen Cumberly forestalled an insolent refusal which the cook, by furtive wink, counseled to the housemaid. "Don't trouble," she said, with an easy dignity reminiscent of her father. "I will announce myself."
That frightful coincidence so startled Leroux that he looked up and almost rose from his chair in his agitation. Indeed it startled Cumberly, also, but did not divert him from his purpose. "It is now or never!" he whispered. He took the seemingly lifeless hand in his own, and bending over Mira Leroux, spoke softly in her ear: "Mrs.
The signatures were identical"... "Therefore," said Cumberly, and he was thinking of Henry Leroux, whom Fate delighted in buffeting "therefore, the Credit Lyonnais is not responsible?" "Most decidedly not responsible," agreed Max. "So you see I now have two reasons for coming to London: one, to visit the London County and Suburban Bank, and the other to find... Mr. King.
Cumberly glanced at his daughter; and seeing her to be perfectly composed: "For the moment, I have formed no opinion, Mr. Hilton," he said, quietly, "not having had an opportunity to conduct a proper examination." Hilton bent and whispered, confidentially, in the other's ear: "She was drugged!" The innuendo underlying the words struck Dr.
But my wife is a painter, you understand, and er I met her in Paris er ... Must you insist upon these domestic particulars, Inspector?" "If Mr. Exel is anxious to turn in," replied the inspector, "after his no doubt exhausting duties at the House, and if Dr. Cumberly " "I have no secrets from Cumberly!" interjected Leroux.
He occupied himself with such profitless reflections up to the time that he came to the electric trains; but, from thence onward, his mind became otherwise engaged. On his way to Piccadilly Circus that same evening, he had chanced to find himself upon a crowded pavement walking immediately behind Denise Ryland and Helen Cumberly.
Oblivion closed in upon Helen Cumberly; she seemed to be sinking into the heart of a giant rose. Dr. Cumberly, his face unusually pale, stood over by the window of Inspector Dunbar's room, his hands locked behind him.
"Are you VERY angry with me for interrupting you?" cried a girl's voice. "My dear Miss Cumberly!" said Leroux without irritation; "on the contrary er I am delighted to see you or rather to hear you. There is nobody at home, you know."... "I DO know," replied the girl firmly, "and I know something else, also. Father assures me that you simply STARVE yourself when Mrs. Leroux is away!
"But I DO tell you!" said Dr. Cumberly; "I ASSURE you." "And you have not told Mr. Leroux?" said Helen incredulously. "You have NOT told him although you know that the thought of THAT is?"... "Is practically killing him? No, I have not told him yet. For would my news act as a palliative or as an irritant?" "That depends," pronounced Denise Ryland, "on the nature of... your news."
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