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Damar Greefe closed his eyes and lay back in the chair; and a moment later: "Hullo!" said Gatton. "Detective-Inspector Gatton, C.I.D., speaking from Willow Cottage, College Road. Send two men in a cab here at once to remove a prisoner.... Right! Good-by." He came in again, and closing the door behind him, stood staring at Damar Greefe in a sort of wonderment.
Respecting the identity of my would-be assassin there was little room for doubt; he was the black servant of Dr. Damar Greefe. Now, as he passed the bright patch of roadway and began to glide silently nearer through the shadows, I marked time with a lighter step, the more deeply to confuse him. Cassim!" I wailed "Satan is calling for you!"
Something repellent, yet something powerful, there was in word and glance. Gatton, who also had sprung forward, hesitated. Damar Greefe raised one hand from the chair-arm and waved to us to return to our chairs. Exchanging wondering glances, we both obeyed. His hand shook wildly as he returned the timepiece to its place. Then: "I must hasten," he said hoarsely.
They are tatued, and noticeable on the men is a succession of stars across the chest, as if hanging on a thread which is lower in the middle. The stars symbolise the fruits of durian. The colour of the tatuing is obtained from damar.
"The same trick, as you say, Mr. Addison; with one trifling variation, a device which would only suggest itself to such a brain as that of " "Dr. Damar Greefe!" I cried. "I believe you are right."
"There would be no further danger of any one paying off the mortgage." "Danger?" "Exactly. There is some secret at Friar's Park or at the Bell House which necessitates the property remaining in the possession of Dr. Damar Greefe as it has virtually remained since Sir Burnham's death!
What was the purpose of the watch and ward kept by the gipsy game-keeper over the grounds and approaches to the house? It could only mean that this was a device of Dr. Damar Greefe's to prevent any of the neighbors from seeking admittance to the house and thus learning the strange secret which its emptiness revealed.
Damar Greefe was by no means normal; in fact I think he was a dangerous and very brilliant maniac." "At any rate," added Gatton, "no trace of this Nahémah has been found which, at the least, is very significant." "Significant, if you like," I replied; "but for my own part I have no ambition whatever to see again those dreadful green eyes."
These people have rendered the neighborhood uninhabitable for themselves, now, and " Dimly to my ears came the sound of a gun-shot. "And have fled!" cried Gatton, springing up. "Quick! we must chance the gas!" "Why? What was that shot?" "A signal! Dr. Damar Greefe and 'the cat' have escaped!" He raced out across the landing, amid a chorus of frightened inquiries from the inn staff.
On this account some sixty Malays who were camped here, bound for the utan higher up the river, in search of rubber and damar, delayed their departure as did some Kenyahs who were on their way to Apo Kayan, and the people of the kampong did not go to their ladangs.
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