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It may be that Damar Greefe had some secret locked up in the Bell House which he could not very well remove, and that the greatest peril he feared was the taking over of the Park property by an heir. "Until there was no heir to the property remaining alive!" I interrupted excitedly. "Exactly, Gatton! That is my own theory, too!
But, briefly, beyond learning that the story of the invalid Lady Coverly was a myth, I discovered nothing likely to help the inquiry. I seriously debated the idea of putting Dr. Damar Greefe under arrest; but finally I determined to watch him for a time without showing my hand. I had the good fortune to meet him this morning here at the Abbey Inn! Also, I saw your mysterious lady visitor!
Perhaps I reflected, as I plodded along the deserted country road she had been interrupted on that occasion by the inopportune appearance of Dr. Damar Greefe. Again, why had he appeared there at that moment if not because he had suspected her presence at the Inn; and what was the relationship existing between these two singular people?
"Oh," said I; for this unexpected clearing up of so many minor mysteries had rather taken me aback. "Then Dr. Greefe is not popular?" "Popular!" echoed the old man. He drained his tankard and set it down on the table with a bang. "He's been the ruin o' these parts, he has. He's worse than the turnip-fly." "But in what way is he responsible for these evils of which you complain?"
The woman he had seen back at Asheville, the woman who called herself Mandy Greefe, but whom the police there suspected of being Andy Proudfoot's wife, whom they had twice endeavored, unsuccessfully, to follow in long, secret excursions into the mountains. What was the story? What had they said? That she was seeking Proudfoot, or was in communication with him; that was it! "My Lord! Oh, my Lord!
"Mr. Addison," she said, "I'm afraid you will think this call somewhat unconventional, but" she paused almost imperceptibly "I am staying at Friar's Park, and Lady Coverly has heard from Dr. Greefe that you wish to see the house." "Really," I murmured, "it was good of you to take so much trouble, but " "It was no trouble at all," she declared.
Damar Greefe came out and began to peer through his glasses that it was mechanically set in such a manner that it could drop a projectile into the window above the porch of the Abbey Inn!" "Good God! It's hardly credible!" "It isn't, I admit. But weather conditions favored him; there wasn't a breath of wind.
Damar Greefe to Sir Marcus is a very significant piece of evidence, of course; and when we consider that it reached Sir Marcus within a very short time of his return from Russia, the conclusion is obvious. "He inherited the title on the death of Sir Burnham, whilst he was on service in Archangel. Being in Russia, I conclude that he was not accessible from the Eurasian doctor's point of view.
Damar Greefe; but I certainly believed that I had previously heard his voice, although I quite failed to recall where and under what circumstances. "Sir Burnham has been dead for several years, I believe?" I asked tentatively. "For several years, yes." Without returning to the peremptory tone which had distinguished his earlier manner, Dr.
In those remote times when the white brethren from the neighboring Abbey had held absolute sway in that country-side, the life history of one accused, as Dr. Damar Greefe was now accused, of possessing the evil eye, would very probably have terminated upon a pile of faggots, by order of Mother Church.
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