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Updated: June 21, 2025
The fact that she was, in the eyes of the law, an illegitimate child could not invalidate this bequest. For the rest, he imagined that when her brother died so unexpectedly, no one ever dreamed of inquiring into the well-intentioned fraud perpetrated by Lady Hume-Frazer and her husband. Margaret was unquestionably accepted as the heiress to her brother's property, the estate being unentailed.
The old chap is as close as wax. He seems to think that a Hume-Frazer must die a violent death outside that library window, and if the cause of the trouble is another Hume-Frazer, it is their own blooming business, and no other person's. Most extraordinary old chap. Have you met him?" "No. Indeed, I am only just beginning to hear the correct details of the story."
She said that once he showed her a Japanese sword, a most wonderful piece of workmanship, with veins of silver and gold let into the handle and part of the blade. To the upper part of the scabbard was attached a knife a small dagger similar " "Yes, I understand. An implement like that used to kill Sir Alan Hume-Frazer." "Exactly. Nellie at first hardly realised its significance.
Crowe, and walked rapidly up the avenue. Winter watched his retreating figure. "He's smart, I know he's smart," mused the detective. "But he doesn't know everything about this affair. He doesn't know, I'll be bound, that David Hume-Frazer waited for his cousin that night outside the library. I didn't know it worse luck! until after he was acquitted.
He handed to Brett photographs of himself and his two cousins, and of the older Sir Alan and Lady Hume-Frazer, taken singly and in groups. The barrister examined them minutely. "Alan and I," pointed out his client, "were photographed during our last visit to London. Poor chap! He never saw this picture. The proofs were not sent until after his death."
At Stowmarket the barrister sought a few minutes' conversation with the stationmaster. "Have you been long in charge of this station?" he asked, when the official ushered him into a private office. "Nearly five years, sir," was the surprised answer. "Ah, then you know nearly all the members of the Hume-Frazer family?" "Yes, sir. I think so."
During the next few days there was the usual commotion in the Press that follows the opening up of the secret records of a great and mysterious crime. It came as a tremendous surprise to David Hume-Frazer to learn how many people were convinced of his innocence "all the time."
My people have lived on the Highland estate longer than any Hume-Frazer of them a'. My father remembered his grandfather sayin' that a man who was in India wi' Clive met Mr. Hume in Calcutta. There was fightin' agin' the French, an' Mr.
Only once did the line cross such a place as that described by Ooma, and a bruised and battered corpse was taken out of the boulder-strewn stream beneath the viaduct. Meanwhile Winter, writing from Brett's dictation, drew up a complete statement of all the facts retailed by the Japanese in relation to the murders of Sir Alan Hume-Frazer and the unfortunate Italian.
He did not credit Jiro with the death of Sir Alan Hume-Frazer, nor even with complicity in the crime. The Japanese had acted as the unwitting tool of a stronger personality, and the little man's brain was even at this moment considering fresh aspects of the affair not previously within his ken. Moreover, how maddening the whole thing was!
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