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"I guess you'll be interested," said Mulligan. "Yes, thank you. What is it?" "I didn't hear all the particulars. But Miss Brill, the young lady clerk, received an electrical shock from some wires hidden under the metal edge of one of the showcases, so Mr. Kettridge says, and she was knocked down." "Killed?" "No, but her head struck on the edge of a case and she's badly cut.
"Darcy promised to fix the timepiece but neglected or forgot to do it, leaving it on his table. Then, remembering it early in the morning perhaps feeling guilty at having spent part of the night working on his electric lathe he got up to do as he had promised, and " "Finds his cousin dead!" interrupted Mr. Kettridge. "So he says!" added Jack Young significantly.
Then he telephoned for Haliday of the prosecutor's office, and also for the chief electrician of the police signal system, and all three spent some time looking at the wires and testing them. "What do you think about it?" asked Mr. Kettridge of the colonel, when the store was again dim and quiet. "What do I think? I don't know!
"That may have occurred just after her hand was punctured by the needle of the watch," said the detective, "and before the poison had time to work. It is not instantaneous." "But who would have struck or stabbed her after that?" asked Mr. Kettridge. "I mean, of course, leaving Jimmie out, for I don't believe he did it." "Could not Singa Phut have done it?" asked Colonel Ashley quietly.
With a friendly wave of his hand to the colonel, King slipped the half dollar into his pocket with other loose change and turned to the glass that awaited him. "You see," said the colonel to Mr. Kettridge. "He doesn't know he had it he doesn't know he lost it he doesn't know you have it. Keep it, I beg of you. We may need it." "But suppose King goes away?" "He won't. I'll take care of that.
"It must have been taken from her safe, for she had refused many offers to sell it. And now " "Now Harry King has it!" exclaimed Colonel Ashley. "I think this will bear looking into!" Mr. Kettridge, his eyes big with unconcealed wonder as he looked at the odd coin, was eager to accost Harry King at once and demand to know whence the roysterer had obtained it.
And, as you say, Jack, if King or Larch sold some loose diamonds, it looks as though there was something wrong. But we don't want to make a mistake." "If we don't do something pretty soon they'll so fasten this crime on Jimmie Darcy that you'll never be able to get him out of the tangle," said Mr. Kettridge, as he poked a pair of pliers among the parts of the watch.
"Yes, and I'll get back to the Homestead and watch King," observed Jack Young with a laugh. "And I must get back to the shop," said Mr. Kettridge. "I have some work to do. Shall I leave the watch apart this way, Colonel?" "Yes, I may need it to show to the jury. Leave it as it is, but put it under glass, and the needle away carefully.
What's that at the jewelry store you say? Well, will this never end? Yes, I'll go there at once!" "What is it?" asked Jack, as the colonel hung up the receiver. "Why, Kettridge telephoned to my room, and Shag took the message and repeated it to me. Darcy has just been killed by an electric shock in the jewelry store!"
Did he hope that some spirit of the poor, murdered woman might still be lingering there, to whisper to him what he sought to learn? "Who is that man?" asked Colonel Ashley of Mr. Kettridge, who had often come to the shop during the holiday seasons to help Mrs. Darcy. "Oh, that's Mr. Grafton." "Mr. Grafton? Who is he?" "Aaron Grafton, one of Colchester's best and wealthiest citizens.
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