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Knopf knew still less, nor could he imagine how he, or in fact anybody else, could possibly know that he happened to have diamonds in his house that night. "This certainly seemed the great hitch in the case. "Mr. Ferdinand Knopf, at the instance of the police, later on went to the station and had a look at the suspected tramp. He declared that he had never set eyes on him before. "Mr.
The whole trick lay in one simple art, which those two cunning rascals knew to absolute perfection, the art of impersonating one another. "They are brothers, presumably twin brothers, I should say." "But Mr. Knopf " suggested Polly. "Well, look in the Trades' Directory; you will see F. Knopf & Co., diamond merchants, of some City address.
Emile Knopf, who, he added, had not many hours to live, and had begged of the doctor to communicate at once with his brother in London. "'Before leaving, Mr. Knopf warned me that there were some valuables in his desk diamonds mostly, and told me to be particularly careful about locking up the house.
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But the man in the shirt had partly recovered his power of speech, and was now blurting out jerky, half intelligible sentences: "'I have been robbed robbed I that is my master Mr. Knopf. The desk is open the diamonds gone all in my charge and now they are stolen!
Knopf: Your request for a Foreword to insert in the American reprint of the little book worries me. A critic on this side has said that my Prefaces to reprints of my earlier works are of the nature of parting kicks, and I have no desire just now to kick this poor innocent.
Knopf left me at about 9.30, for he knows I go very early to bed, and I took my new stock upstairs with me, and locked it up in the safe. I certainly heard nothing of the noise in the mews last night. I sleep on the second floor, in the front of the house, and this is the first I have heard of poor Mr. Knopf's loss "At this point of his narrative Mr.
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Is it not simpler to suppose that the thief had taken the precaution to drug the jeweller before the latter went to bed?" "But " "Wait a moment, and take point number three. Though there was every proof that Mr. Shipman had been in possession of £25,000 worth of goods since Mr. Knopf had a cheque from him for that amount, there was no proof that in Mr.
He is a widower, and lives very quietly by himself in his own old-fashioned way in the small Kensington house, leaving it to his two married sons to keep up the style and swagger befitting the representatives of so wealthy a firm. "'I have only known Mr. Knopf a very little while, he explained to the detectives.
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