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He had removed the disguise in which he had deceived the doctor, and was now as Deever had seen him before. Deever recognized him at once, and started forward, saying: "You ask for proof of my brother's death. I will give it to you. Here is a man who saw him buried." And he pointed to the stranger. Nick received Deever's startling intelligence with every evidence of satisfaction.
I made my daughter promise never to speak to him, but it was a most unpleasant affair throughout. I thought Deever would murder me. "It seems strange, perhaps, that I should speak of it in the midst of the terrors that surround me, and yet I can't help thinking of the whole affair as one freak of fate." "And now tell me the truth about his brother and yourself," said Nick earnestly.
"Yes, sir," at last, came from the pert, young woman near the window. "I guess I'll be going," said Mr. Deever resentfully, rising slowly from the side of her desk on which he had been lounging. "Wait a minute, Eddie," protested Miss Keating; "what's your hurry?" and then, she almost snapped out: "What is it, Mr. Rigby?"
"I am guilty of the murder of Patrick Deever." This confession produced no perceptible effect upon Nick, though the reader cannot have failed to perceive that the great detective had been working with a conviction of the doctor's innocence. Of all the persons in the room, Deever exhibited the strongest emotion. He gasped, sprang to his feet, and then sat down again heavily.
Watts the door, and if he ever comes here again call the police. He has tried to bribe me." Watts departed in a dazed sort of way and Droom closed the door. "Are you still here?" he demanded of Eddie Deever in such a manner that the young man lost no time in leaving. "There goes twenty-five thousand," said Bansemer, with a cold grin. "I guess you can afford to lose it," muttered Droom.
Was the body on the slab that of Patrick Deever, or had the doctor gone through in his sleep the act which he intended to perform later with the real body? Nick thought that the latter was more probable. He was inclined to believe that the body of Deever might be concealed about the building. If so, he would find it. Reflecting thus, he passed outside the hospital walls.
"It's a plain case," said Deever, turning toward Nick. "Will you make the arrest now?" Dr. Jarvis shuddered as these words were spoken. It was easy to see that he was on the verge of despair. "Let's not go too fast," said Nick. "What stronger proof can you possibly desire?" exclaimed Deever. He seemed to be dazed with surprise at Nick's delay, but Dr. Jarvis plucked up his courage.
Come on, I'll take the car down with you." "I I won't be ready for some time." "Oh, well, I'll say good-night, then." Eddie Deever departed, chuckling to himself as he made his way to the U Building, determined to learn what he could of this unusual summons. But Droom was too crafty. Bansemer's letter had asked him to come to Rector's restaurant and not to the U Building.
Ten minutes later they were both aboard the police-boat, and in another hour Nick had redeemed his pledge to produce Patrick Deever alive before the superintendent. "I'd have had him, anyway," said Patsy, afterward. "He turned on me in the woods up there in Nyack and knocked me down, and tied me. "He thought I was done, but I wasn't.
Superintendent Byrnes will not swallow that story." "Is it any more wonderful," said Nick, "than what I saw the doctor do in his laboratory?" The story of that night he had already told to Deever and the superintendent. "Very little, if any," said Byrnes. "I passed that night, or supposed that I passed it, at my home," said the doctor. "I took an opiate, and seemed to sleep.
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