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He looked up the stairway, but, all being in darkness, was unable to detect anything. Therefore he called out: "Is that you, Leroux? Is anything the matter?" "Matter, Exel!" cried Leroux; "there's a devil of a business! For mercy's sake, come up!" His curiosity greatly excited, Mr. Exel mounted the stairs, entering the lobby of Leroux's flat immediately behind the owner and Dr.
Exel thereupon joined us at the door of this flat." "Was it open?" "Yes. Mr. Leroux had rushed up to me, leaving the door open behind him. The light was out, both in the lobby and in the study, a fact upon which I commented at the time. It was all the more curious as Mr. Leroux had left both lights on!"... "Did he say so?" "He did. The circumstances surprised him to a marked degree.
Pull yourself together. Exel does not know the circumstances " "I am curious to learn them," said the M. P. icily. Leroux was about to launch some angry retort, but Cumberly forced him into the chesterfield, and crossing to a bureau, poured out a stiff peg of brandy from a decanter which stood there.
Exel and the doctor stood staring at one another; when suddenly, from outside the flat, came a metallic clattering, followed by a little suppressed cry. Helen Cumberly, in daintiest deshabille, appeared in the lobby, carrying, in one hand, a chafing-dish, and, in the other, the lid. As she advanced toward the study, from whence she had heard her father's voice: "Why, Mr.
They were talking in an excited key, the voice of Leroux, especially, sounding almost hysterical. They created such a disturbance that they attracted the attention of Mr. John Exel, M. P., occupant of the flat below, who at that very moment had returned from the House and was about to insert the key in the lock of his door.
"You won't believe it's Leroux; therefore it must be either Mr. Exel, Dr. Cumberly, or Miss Cumberly."... Inspector Dunbar stood up very suddenly, thrusting his chair from him with much violence. "Do you recollect the matter of Soames leaving Palace Mansions?" he snapped. Sowerby's air of serio-comic defiance began to leave him. He scratched his head reflectively.
"Soames got away like that because no one was expecting him to do it. In the same way, neither Leroux, Exel, nor Dr. Cumberly knew that there was any one else IN the flat at the very time when the murderer was making his escape. The cases are identical. They were not looking for a fugitive. He had gone before the search commenced.
Cumberly and his daughter had paid their second visit to that scene of an unhappy soul's dismissal. "Well?" said Dunbar, glancing up at his subordinate, inquiringly. "I have done all the cab depots," reported Sergeant Sowerby, "and a good many of the private owners; but so far the man seen by Mr. Exel has not turned up."
"No," averred Exel, perceiving the drift of the inspector's inquiries; "I was facing the stairway the whole time, and although it was in darkness, there is a street lamp immediately outside on the pavement, and I can swear, positively, that no one descended; that there was no one in the hall nor on the stair, except Mr. Leroux and Dr. Cumberly."
Harding the member of Parliament, to his residence in?" "In Peers' Chambers, Westminister that's it, guv'nor! Comin' back, I 'ave to pass along the north side o' the Square, an' just a'ead o' me, I see old Tom Brian a-pullin' round the Johnny 'Orner, 'im comin' from Palace Mansions." "Mr. Exel only mentioned seeing ONE cab," muttered Dunbar, glancing keenly aside at Sowerby.
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