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Embury's death until noon of the next day. That lets him out positively. Therefore, there are two with motives but no opportunity. Next, we must admit there were two who had opportunity, but no motive. I refer to Ferdinand, your butler, and Miss Ames, your aunt. These two could have managed to commit the deed, had they chosen, but we can find no motive to attribute to either of them.
Stone returned to Aunt Abby's side window, and leaning over the sill looked out and down to the street below. "Couldn't be reached even by firemen's ladders," he said, "and, anyway, the police would have spotted any ladder work." "I tried to think some one came in at that window," said Elliott, "but even so, nobody could go through Miss Ames' room, and then Mrs, Embury's room, and so on to Mr.
Eunice listlessly acquiesced, and then the doctor returned to Embury's bedroom. He looked carefully about. All the details of the room, the position of clothing, the opened book, face down, on the night table, the half-emptied water-glass, the penciled memorandum on the chiffonier all seemed to bear witness to the well, strong man, who expected to rise and go about his day as usual.
Dismissed, he left Embury's room, and closed the door softly behind him. The door between the rooms of Embury and his wife stood a little ajar, and as his hand fell on it to shut it, he heard a stifled gasp of "Sanford!" He looked in, and saw Eunice, in a very white heat of rage. In all their married life he had never seen her so terribly angry as she looked then.
"That isn't the point you told me there were a few a very few real, sincere mediums now I'm here to get the address of the best one you know of. I want to go to him or her and have a seance, and I want to get into communication with Sanford with Mr. Embury's spirit, and learn from him who killed him. It's the only way we can ever find out."
"Through the ear!" repeated Elliott, as one who failed to grasp the sense of the words. "Yes; it is a most unusual, almost a unique case, but it is proved beyond a doubt. The poison was inserted in Mr. Embury's ear, by means " He paused, and Driscoll held up to view a small, ordinary glass medicine dropper, with a rubber bulb top. In it still remained a portion of a colorless liquid.
Her gown of henna-colored chiffon, with touches of gold embroidery, was most becoming to her dark beauty, and some fine ornaments of ancient carved gold gave an Oriental touch to her appearance. She stood before a long mirror, noting the details of her gown, and showed an irritating lack of attention to Embury's last dictum. "You heard me, Eunice?" he said, caustically, his hand on the doorknob.
He learned by telephone that Fleming Stone was at Mrs. Embury's, and, pausing only to telephone for Shane to go at once to the same house, Fibsy jumped into a taxicab and hurried up there himself. "It's all over," he burst forth, as he dashed into the room where Stone sat, talking to Eunice. Mason Elliott was there, too indeed, he was a frequent visitor and Aunt Abby sat by with her knitting.
The little man stood, nervously teetering up and down on his toes, almost like a schoolboy preparing to speak a piece. "Now if you please now " he looked eagerly toward the other doctors. They all went into Embury's room and closed the door. Then Eunice's temporary calm forsook her. "It's awful!" she cried. "I don't want them to bother poor Sanford. Why can't they let him alone?
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