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"If he did, or could, it would be through your own carelessness, Mr. Fullaway," she said. "You know that I am ridiculously careful about that sort of thing! From the time I come here in the morning ten-o'clock until I leave at five, no one has any chance of seeing our papers, or our letter book, or our telegram-copies book.
Firms of high standing in the City. Couldn't have had better. Go and ask any of them about her I'll lay my last dollar they will say the same. Capital secretary clever woman thoroughly trustworthy!" "What do you know about her private life?" asked Allerdyke. "What the deuce has the woman's private life to do with me?" snapped Fullaway. "I know nothing.
"Not here, of course!" answered Fullaway, with emphasis. "That's dead sure. Over there, of a certainty. The robbery was engineered from there." "Then, in that case, there's naught to do but wait the arrival of the Princess," said Allerdyke. "And you say she'll be here to-morrow night.
"You keep a bit of sealing wax, of course?" suggested Allerdyke. "Take care that some of the brass sticks when you handle it, no doubt?" "Commission and percentage, of course," responded Fullaway. "Ah, well, you've an advantage over chaps like me," said Allerdyke. "Now, you shall take my case.
Allerdyke, keenly watching the secretary's pretty face as she laid her papers on Fullaway's desk, saw no sign of embarrassment or confusion; Fullaway might have made the most innocent and ordinary remark in the world, and yet, according to Allerdyke's theory and positive knowledge, it must be fraught with serious meaning to this woman.
"Aye, for sure," replied Allerdyke. "Come into this corner we'll have a glass of sherry it's early for lunch yet. Those reports, eh? About Fullaway and Delkin, you mean?" "Just so," said Appleyard, settling himself in the corner of a lounge and lighting the cigarette which Allerdyke offered him. "They're ordinary business reports, you know, got through the usual channels.
And thereupon, Fullaway, not to be repressed, burst out with another exclamation. "My God, Chilverton!" he cried. "There is Van Koon! And, by all that's wonderful, Merrifield with him. Now what " The New York detective, who was under no orders, and knew no reason why he should restrain himself, wasted no time in words.
And," concluded the manager, with a sympathetic glance at the detectives, "since they came Mademoiselle has done nothing but insist on arresting every soul within these walls she seems to think there's a universal conspiracy against her." "Exactly," said Fullaway. "It is precisely what she would think under the circumstances. Now let us see this chambermaid."
Van Koon and ask about it, but I decided that I wouldn't; I thought I would wait until Mr. Fullaway returned. But all the time I was wondering what parcel it could be that was sent from Hull, and certainly dispatched from there on the very evening before Mr. Fullaway's hurried journey. "Nothing happened until Mr. Fullaway came back. Then a lot of things happened all at once.
"I know Delkin, slightly," he said. "I'll go with you." At that, Fullaway jumped up, evidently annoyed and unwilling, but prepared to act against his own wishes. "Oh, all right, all right!" he exclaimed. "In that case we'll all go. Come on it's only across the Strand. Back after lunch, Mrs. Marlow, if anybody wants me."
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