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Updated: June 12, 2025
"There would be no further danger of any one paying off the mortgage." "Danger?" "Exactly. There is some secret at Friar's Park or at the Bell House which necessitates the property remaining in the possession of Dr. Damar Greefe as it has virtually remained since Sir Burnham's death!
The Eurasian wearily opened his eyes and looked slowly from side to side. Then: "Pray be seated, Inspector Gatton," he said. "I have a communication to make." Gatton, with never a word, drew up a chair and sat down. "I do not desire to be interrupted," continued Damar Greefe, "until my communication is finished. You understand? It will not be repeated."
The Laurels is an ordinary suburban house, which has been leased for a number of years by a 'Mr. and Miss da Costa' Damar Greefe, no doubt, and a female companion. But of his 'great work' and so forth there's not a trace.
"That is true," he admitted, "but I will come to this side of the case later; at present I am summing up the evidence against Damar Greefe who is certainly the acting partner in this series of outrages against the members of the house of Coverly. Observe the ingenuity of the Red House plot.
Coates entered, and standing stiffly in the doorway: "Dr. Damar Greefe!" he announced. Unmoved, he stood aside; and whilst Gatton and I slowly rose from our chairs in a state of utter stupefaction, the Eurasian doctor entered, and stood, a tall, gaunt figure, towering over the burly form of Coates in the doorway!
In a sudden tropical torrent the rain descended, and I stepped forward into the room. Its occupant rose to his great height to greet me. "I am Dr. Damar Greefe," he said, and bowed formally. I made myself known to him in turn, and with a sort of stately courtesy he set a high-backed chair for me and himself resumed his former seat.
Little did I dream, in my strange new happiness, how soon I was to return to that house how soon I was to know the deadliest terror of my life. "The case has narrowed down," said Gatton, "from my point of view, into the quest of one man " "Dr. Damar Greefe!" "Precisely. You have asked me what I found at Friar's Park and the Bell House, and I can answer you very briefly. Nothing!
Damar Greefe reason to suspect that I was in any way associated with the matter. "I picked up one or two hints from the county police as to the geography as well as the 'notables' of the neighborhood; and the plan which you put into execution to-night, I had adopted last night!" "What! You visited Friar's Park?" "I did. But I did not enter through the French window.
But that Dr. Damar Greefe was a genius whom much learning had made mad, neither of us doubted.
The only alternative is flight from the country, and the mechanism of the C.I.D. having been put into motion, this we may regard as almost impossible especially in view of the marked personality of Dr. Damar Greefe. Of course," he had added, "they may have some other residence of which we know nothing but I incline to the idea that they will make for London."
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