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Douglas Romilly," he added, with a little bow to Philip. "The first is this. There is one fact which we can all three take for granted, because I know it I can prove it a hundred times over and you both know it; and that is that the Mr. Merton Ware of to-day travelled from Liverpool on the Elletania as Mr. Douglas Romilly, occupied a room at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel as Mr.
Philip Romilly, late art-school teacher of Kensington, who murdered Douglas Romilly on the banks of the canal, stole his money and pocketbook, assumed his identity in Liverpool and on the Elletania, and became what you are now Mr. Merton Ware." Philip threw away the cigarette which he had been smoking, and, leaning over the box, carefully selected another.
Men might talk of likenesses, men who were close students of their fellows, yet there was no living person who could point to him and say "You are, beyond a shadow of doubt, a man with whom I travelled on the Elletania." The thing was impossible. Louis once more made a noiseless appearance. There was the slightest of frowns upon his face.
The strange, untold passion of the whole thing was coming to him in waves of wonderful suggestion. "Finish!" he cried impatiently. "Finish!" "That is the end," she said. "I played for two years and a half, with scarcely a pause. Then I came to Europe for a rest and travelled back with you on the Elletania. Last night I saw Sylvanus Power again for the first time. Don't speak.
Douglas Romilly, an English shoe manufacturer, who travelled out from England on board the Elletania, arrived at the Waldorf Hotel at four o'clock on Saturday afternoon and was shown to the reservation made for him. Within an hour he was enquired for by several callers, who were shown to his room without result. The apartment was found to be empty and nothing has since been seen or heard of Mr.
"Well," he explained, "I got on your tracks quick enough when you skipped from the Waldorf and blossomed out in a second-rate tenement house as Merton Ware." "So I was at the Waldorf, was I?" Philip murmured. "You crossed from Liverpool on the Elletania," the man continued, "registered at the Waldorf as Mr.
Tell me truthfully, don't you think it is very improbable that anything could be discovered?" "That anything could be proved," he admitted eagerly, "yes!" "Then don't be silly. No one is likely to make accusations and attempt a case unless they had a definite end in view. We are safe even from the Elletania people. Mr.
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