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Updated: June 10, 2025
The Pigotts, the Houstons, and the Macdonalds kept quietly in the background, and were never dragged forth into the light of day. The Mr. Walters took the full responsibility, which was very trifling; and as Englishmen relied on the respectability of the Times, so the illiterate and fanatical Christians relied on the respectability of the Mother Church.
"What I think is that he was masquerading as a servant in the Houstons' house a chauffeur, perhaps anything, that would let him hang round and drive a girl half wild. He was a plain skunk.
Paulette leapt up like a wildcat. "You mean you took them?" "I took them," he nodded sneeringly, and I saw her eyes blaze. "I took them to get you into a hole you'd have to come to me to get out of!" "But I didn't have to come to you! I " but she spoke with sudden cutting deliberation. "I don't believe you. You were never in the Houstons' house that night. I should have seen you." "Oh, seen me!"
If Dudley told the truth to-night, and he stole those emeralds and shifted the crime on to you, it's you who have the whip hand of him!" "But he didn't," Paulette exclaimed wildly. "He wasn't near the Houstons' house! It's mad of Dudley to think so. I know he believes it, but oh, it's mad all the same!
How, I did not know; I knew he had not been one of the Houstons' week-end party; but he had done it somehow, and spirited Paulette out to La Chance. As for the rest, a fool could have told that he respected and believed in her. If it had been risky bringing Marcia out into the wilderness with her, it had been clever too, because it was so bold that Marcia had never suspected it.
I don't know how he managed the thing, but I know he was there in the Houstons' house, somehow, if Paulette doesn't think so" he forgot all about the Valenka "and that he took those emeralds; left the girl powerless even to think so; and disappeared. I never saw him; don't even know what he looks like.
I knew a poor devil of a cousin of hers out in British Columbia who was engaged to her when it happened, and he talked about her enough. Oh, yes, Valenka! She had a funny Christian name too, sort of half Russian, only I forget it. But when that Valenka girl got away with an emerald necklace from the Houstons' house no one ever found out how it was done! You must have heard about her, Stretton?"
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