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If this," Chaldea held up the bullet again jeeringly, "fits the pistol of the big rye he will swing for sure. The letter hangs her and the bullet hangs him. I want my price." "You won't get it, then," said Miss Greeby, eyeing the pocket into which the girl had again dropped the bullet. "Mr. Lambert was absent in London on that night. I heard that by chance."
Here I'm going to stay until I can get at the root of the matter." "What root?" "I wish to learn who murdered Pine, poor devil." "Ah," Lambert smiled. "You wish to gain the reward." "Not me. I've got more money than I know what to do with, as it is. Silver is more anxious to get the cash than I am." "Silver! Have you seen him lately?" "A couple of days ago," Miss Greeby informed him easily.
And and Miss Greeby?" "She is dying." Lambert clenched his hands and groaned, "Garvington and Mother Cockleshell?" "She is dead and he is dead by now," said Chaldea, looking with a callous smile at the burning cottage, "both are dead Lord Garvington." "Lord Garvington?" Lambert groaned again. He had forgotten that he now possessed the title and what remained of the family estates.
However, Fate took the matter out of his hands, and before he could even write the invitation, a visitor arrived in the person of Miss Greeby, who suggested a way out of the difficulty, by offering her services. Matters came to a head within half an hour of her presenting herself in the sitting-room.
Lambert knows too much, and you have confessed what should have been kept quiet." "I had to save my own skin," said Garvington sullenly. "After all, I had nothing to do with the murder. I never guessed that you were so mixed up in it until Lambert brought that bullet to fit the revolver I lent you." "And which I gave to Miss Greeby," snapped Silver tartly. "She is the criminal, not me.
An artist might have had some such poetic fancy, and would certainly have looked lovingly on the alluring colors and forms of decay. But Miss Greeby was no artist, and prided herself upon being an aggressively matter-of-fact young woman.
"A gypsy for choice," growled Miss Greeby, marvelling that Lady Agnes could not see the resemblance between the tramps' faces and that of her own husband. "However, I hope Pine's darlings won't come here to rob. I'll fight for my jewels, I can promise you." One of the men laughed. "I shouldn't like to get a blow from your fist." Miss Greeby smiled grimly, and looked at his puny stature.
"Good day to you, my lady, and to you, sir," said Mother Cockleshell in a stronger and harsher voice than would have been expected from one of her age and diminished stature. "I hope I sees you well," and she dropped a curtsey, just like any village dame who knew her manners. "Oh!" cried Miss Greeby again. "You don't look a bit like a gypsy queen." "Ah, my lady, looks ain't everything.
A vicious pair of devils looked out of the decent widow's eyes in a moment, and at once she became the Romany. "Hai! She knows, does she, the drab! I hope to see her hanged." "For what?" "For killing of Hearne, may his bones rest sweetly." Miss Greeby suppressed an exclamation. "She accuses Lady Agnes of laying a trap by writing a letter, and says that Mr. Lambert fired the shot." "Avali! Avali!"
"The exposure. See here, Silver, I hear that Mother Cockleshell is willing to hand over that sum to the person who finds the murderer of her grandson. We know that Miss Greeby is guilty, so why not give her up and earn the money?" The secretary rose in quivering alarm. "But I'd be arrested also. You said so; you know you said so." "And I say so again," remarked Garvington, leaning back coolly.
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