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Updated: May 14, 2025
At the end of the Inspector's account: "H'm," said Harley, glancing under his thick brows in my direction, "could you spare the time, Knox?" "To go to Deepbrow?" I asked with interest. "Yes; we have ten minutes to catch the train." "I'll come," said I. "Sir Howard will be delighted to see you, Harley." "What do you make of it, Inspector?" asked my friend.
It was not until the evening of the following day that Harley rang me up, and: "I want you to come round at once," he said urgently. "The Deepbrow case is developing along lines which I confess I had anticipated, but which are dramatic nevertheless." Knowing that Harley did not lightly make such an assertion, I put aside the work upon which I was engaged and hurried around to Chancery Lane.
I told him of my suspicions which step I should have taken earlier and they were instantly confirmed. My man was there recognized me and bolted! He'll forestall us." "But my dear fellow," I said patiently "who is this man, and what has he to do with the Deepbrow case?" "He is the blackest scoundrel breathing!" answered Harley bitterly. "As to what he has to do with the case why did he bolt?
Wessex was still at work in the East End upon the hundred and one formalities which attached to his office, and Harley and I sat in the study of my friend's chambers in Chancery Lane. "You see," Harley was explaining. "I got my first clue down at Deepbrow. The tracks leading to the motor-car.
And," he added bitterly, "the arch-villain has escaped!" "Ali of Cairo!" I cried. "Then Ali of Cairo " "Is the biggest slave-dealer in the East!" "Good God! Harley at last I understand!" "I was slow enough to understand it myself, Knox. But once the theory presented itself I asked Wessex to get into immediate touch with the valet he had already interviewed at Deepbrow.
"Molly Clayton!" he answered. "Thank heaven we have saved one victim from Ali of Cairo." Owing to the instrumentality of Paul Harley, the public never learned that the awful riverside murder called by the Press in reference to the victim's shaven skull "the barber atrocity" had any relation to the Deepbrow case.
Harley produced a piece of thick silk twine. "What is it?" "It is a link, Knox a link to seek which I really went down to Deepbrow." He stared at me quizzically, but my answering look must have been a blank one. "It is part of the tassel of one of those red cloth caps commonly called in England, a fez!"
"I made a special visit to Wapping just to get your opinion on the shaven man. I'm really going down to Deepbrow to look into that new disappearance case; the daughter of the gamekeeper. You'll have read of it?" "I have," said Harley shortly. Indeed, readers of the daily press were growing tired of seeing on the contents bills: "Another girl missing."
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