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Updated: June 21, 2025
This vision of his end contenting him, he began to scheme a campaign for the day that was simple enough in prospect: a little chicanery with Stanistreet, a personal appeal to Crane to restore the passports of Monsieur Andre Duchemin which must have been found on Ekstrom's body, a berth on some steamer sailing for Europe, then the last evanishment.
Not only was the address known to Ekstrom's associates, and so open to him, but its peculiar characteristics, its facilities for access from the street direct, rendered it a highly practicable death-trap for a hunted man. Lanyard was well persuaded he need only wait there long enough to receive a deputation from Seventy-ninth Street.
Then, lifting from a near-by table a great cut-glass bowl of flowers, the adventurer inverted it over Ekstrom's body. Expending its full force upon the man's chest, that miniature deluge splashed widely, wetting his face, half filling his open mouth. Some of the soot was washed away, but not a great deal: enough stuck fast to suit Lanyard's purpose.
Amazing facility in impersonation had done the rest; unrecognisable as what he had been, he was to-day flawlessly the incarnation of what he elected to seem Monsieur Duchemin, gentleman, of Paris. Impossible to believe his disguise had been so soon penetrated.... And yet, again, that gossip of the smoking room.... Police work? Or had Ekstrom's creatures picked up his trail once more?
"It would be a waste of time. I happen to know, because I was there, that no such document was found on Ekstrom's body." "The devil!" Stanistreet grumbled. "What can have become of it? This business grows only the blacker the deeper one seeks to fathom it. I must own myself completely at a loss. How it came into the hands of Miss Brooke " "I can explain that, I think.
If this surmise of his were any way justified in the outcome, he promised Miss Cecelia Brooke an hour of most painful penitence. Woman or not, she need not look for mercy from him, who must ever be merciless in his dealings with Ekstrom's crew. To be made that one's tool! The very thought was intolerable....
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