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Updated: June 11, 2025
Stokes the chauffeur had driven Murie and Hamilton in the car down to the village, where the last-named, after a conversation with the police inspector, went to the "Strathavon Arms," together with two constables who happened to be off duty, in plain clothes. They found Krail sitting in the bar, calmly smoking, awaiting a message from his accomplice.
But now old Goslin has taken her place we may just as well abandon investigation at that end." "You've failed, Krail, and attribute your failure to me," protested his companion. "How could I risk being ignominiously kicked out of Glencardine as a spy?" "Whatever attitude you might have taken would have had the same result.
"You can't deceive me any longer." "Krail has discovered the whole game. The syndicate held a meeting at the office in Paris. He and I watched the arrivals. We now know who they are, and exactly what they are doing. By Jove! we never dreamed that your husband, blind though he is, is head of such a smart and influential group. Why, they're the first in Europe." "What does that matter?
Ah! don't imagine that you and Krail have not been very well watched of late," laughed Hamilton. "Do you allege, then, that Lady Heyburn is privy to all this?" asked the blind man in distress. "It is not for me to judge, sir," was Hamilton's reply. "I know! I know how I have been befooled!" cried the poor helpless man, "befooled because I am blind!" "Not by me, Sir Henry," protested Flockart.
"I thought him a clever fellow, but it seems that he's a bungler after all." "But while we keep Krail at arm's length, as we are doing, what have we to fear?" asked Goslin. "Yes, but how long can we keep him at arm's length?" queried Sir Henry. "You know the kind of man one of the most extraordinarily inventive in Europe. No secret is safe from him.
As they walked together along the white Corniche Road, their faces set towards the gorgeous southern afterglow, while the waves lapped lazily on the grey rocks, all these puzzling thoughts recurred to Krail. "Lady Heyburn seems still to remain your very devoted friend," he remarked at last with a meaning smile.
The marked cordiality of Krail and Flockart that I should take that seat aroused within me some misgivings, although I had never dreamed of this dastardly and cowardly plot against me not until I saw the result of their foul handiwork." "It's a lie! You are trying to implicate Krail and myself! The girl is the only guilty person. She placed the wine there!"
Ah, shall I ever rid myself of the memory of that fatal afternoon?" she cried as she paused for breath. "Fearing that he might be noticed taking along the empty cycle, Krail threw it into the river near Valmondois," she went on. "Arrived back at the Rue Leonce-Reynaud, I protested that nothing had been introduced into the wine.
"But, my dear friend, I actually heard the Whispers heard them with my own ears," Krail asserted. "I happened to be about the place that night, trying to get a peep into the library, where Goslin and the old man were, I believe, busy at work. But the blinds fitted too closely, so that I couldn't see inside.
Felix Krail was not a complete stranger to her. Why had their meeting been a clandestine one? This, and a thousand similar queries ran through his mind as they walked across the field in the direction of a long, low, thatched farmhouse which stood in the distance. "I'm a complete stranger in these parts," Hamilton informed her.
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