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Garside followed him into the room, only to hear the questions hurriedly asked over the wire by his excited partner, who presently dropped the telephone and leaped to his feet, crying loudly, so loudly that his voice filled the entire store, and brought all hands hurrying in his direction: "There's no doubt of it, Garside, none whatever.
He was beginning to feel sorry for Agatha Ismay. The next evening Wyllard sat with Mrs. Radcliffe in a big low-ceilinged room at Garside Scar. He looked about him with quiet interest. He had now and then passed a day or two in huge Western hotels, but he had never seen anything quite like that room.
Hafferman himself remained with me while we discussed the matter." "Do you know the clerk's name?" "Boyden, I think, he was called." "The same who brought the diamonds here this morning," put in Mr. Garside. "His name is Harry Boyden." Nick made a note of it in a small book which he drew from his pocket. "Did you make any deal at that time regarding the diamonds?" he inquired.
Quickly approaching Mr. Garside, who was then disengaged, he tendered one of Thomas Hafferman's business cards, and said, glibly, while bowing and laughing lightly: "Excuse me, Mr. Garside, but we rather owe you an apology. Our Mr. Boyden left some diamonds with you a short time ago, which should have been delivered to Tiffany & Co. Mr.
Either that, or I shall drop the case at once. Your signature, Mr. Garside." Garside hastened to take the pen, and dashed off the firm's signature below that of his partner. Nick tore the page from the block, then handed the latter to Venner. "Now, Mr. Venner," said he, "have each of your employees, from first to last, write his name with pen and ink upon this paper.
Doubtless these are the same." "Oh, if that's the case, leave them, by all means," Garside cried. "I was not aware that he had called there. Probably they are for some order of which he has personal charge. Yes, yes, Mr. Boyden, leave them, certainly. Here, Joseph, place the package in one of the vault drawers, and hand it to Mr. Venner when he returns. Sorry to have detained you so long, Mr.
Garside remarked that he appeared quite anxious to leave the diamonds until Venner should return. That would have been very natural on his part, in case he was then co-operating with the party who finally secured them." "The same objection again arises, however," argued Nick. "Boyden is not employed at Venner's, and therefore has not access to his letter paper.
"And after Cervera does her turn, in case Venner is there, and she departs with him, you then may leave the couple to me. I'll be waiting for them at the stage door." "Right you are, Nick. So here goes!" Shrewd deductions, indeed, those of Nick Carter. Plainly enough, Garside was quite justified in his apprehension that Rufus Venner had barked up the wrong tree.
The central office be hanged!" cried Venner, choking down an oath of wrathful contempt. "I'll have none of your police none of your central office men! I want a detective not an effigy of one!" "Rufus " "Silence, Garside, and leave this affair to me," Venner harshly interrupted. "You've had fingers enough in it already." With which rebuke Mr.
Hafferman read the order without his spectacles, and it's rather a good joke on him, for he thought it was signed Venner & Co. The blunder was partly owing to the fact, no doubt, that Mr. Venner called to see him yesterday about some diamonds." "There!" exclaimed Garside, as if quite pleased to discover that he had been so nearly right.
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