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Esper Indiman's acquaintance; the novelty of having enough to eat actually enough was already beginning to wear off. Man is a wonderful creature; give him time and he will adjust himself to anything. At the corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street, Indiman stopped suddenly and picked up a small object. It was a latch-key of the familiar Yale-lock pattern.
I knew it was necessary to surprise him, and so I borrowed the photograph and used it to transmogrify the queen of spades card. Just for an instant he lost his nerve, but that was enough." "But, as Brownson said, how about the letter?" Indiman drew from his pocket the wig, to which the curl-papers were still attached. He unrolled one and showed it to me.
"Madame," he said, with elaborate civility, "it is a beautiful day." "What of it?" retorted L. Hernandez, ungraciously enough. "Or perhaps the sun isn't shining above Madison Square," she added, sarcastically. A strange voice this, raucous in quality and abnormally low in pitch. "I haven't noticed," said Indiman, with undisturbed good-humor. "Alike upon the just and unjust, you know.
Mr. Sandford being an intimate friend of the elder Sydenham had declined to prosecute. That was all. "Let us proceed frankly, Mr. Sydenham," said Indiman. "Did you take the money?" "I am beginning to think so," answered the young man, dully. "Come," said Indiman, encouragingly, "that does not sound like a confession of guilt. Don't you know?" Mr. Sydenham shook his head.
'For God's sake, fellows he began, but Balencourt stopped him with a gesture. "'This is a private matter between Mr. Estes and myself, as he knows full well. So far as you and Mr. Indiman are concerned, call it what you like a duel, or, better yet, a sporting proposition.
"Do you really consider yourself an abnormally unlucky person?" said Indiman, seriously. "I have a reason for asking." "Upon my soul," returned the young man, warmly. "I verily believe that I have a genius for getting on the wrong side of things. If I should wager you that I am alive at this moment there would be a bolt out of the blue before the money could be paid over."
"Pardon me," he began, with the sweetest suavity. "I was afraid for the moment that we had got into the wrong place. This is the " a delicately suggestive pause. "The Utinam Club," supplied the other. "Exactly," said Indiman, in a most relieved tone. "It IS the Utinam, Thorp," he continued, turning to me.
The fez and the black bag had probably been brought into use after the men of mystery had entered the cab, and it was only through the accident of the suddenly released window-shade that Esper Indiman and I had seen what we did. "No thoroughfare" stood out plainly on this particular road. Then the humor took me to try conclusions with Chance herself, the method a la Indiman.
He took from the pocket of his overcoat a rather bulky package and handed it to young Mr. Sydenham. "They'll explain themselves," he said, smiling. The coach rolled away. "The missing letters from V. S.," said Indiman, in answer to my look of inquiry. "An average of two a day, and all addressed to him at the Utinam. Well, what was the poor girl to do?
Moreover, it was a ridiculous combination of the cards that Indiman invariably set himself to resolve; the chances were at least a hundred to one against the solitaire coming out, and, indeed, I never saw him get it but once. Under rather curious circumstances, too but I won't anticipate; let us begin with the beginning of the adventure of the Queen of Spades.
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