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The marks of the diamond which cut it plainly show that. Scientific common sense again." "Then it must have been someone in the house or at least familiar with it?" I exclaimed. Kennedy shook his head affirmatively. I had been wondering who it could be. Certainly this was not the work of Dopey Jack, even if the far cleverer attempt on Langhorne's safe had been.
"Not at all," she replied enthusiastically, evidently having overcome the first hesitation which had existed because Miss Blackwell had been Langhorne's stenographer. Miss Ashton had quickly jotted down in her notebook the best description we could give of the missing girl, her address, and other facts about her, and a list of those whom she meant to start at work on the case.
"In the mean time we cannot but think that the DISAPPOINTMENT SO GENERALLY EXPRESSED, because Major O'Halloran has returned 'WITHOUT FIRING A SHOT, is somewhat unreasonable, seeing that in his presence the natives DID NOTHING TO WARRANT AN EXTREME MEASURE, and that there were no means of identifying either the robbers of Mr. Inman, or the murderers of Mr. Langhorne's servants.
"Nothing that might be used by an enemy for any purpose?" suggested Kennedy. Carton laughed. "More likely to be used by friends," he replied frankly. Still, I felt that there must have been some sinister purpose back of the robbery. In that respect it was like the scientific cracking of Langhorne's safe.
And if any careful critic wishes to verify my quotation from memory, he may compare it with the proper page of Langhorne's translation; I think it is in the second volume, near the end. Sir Walter Scott, who once described himself as "No fisher, But a well-wisher To the game,"
Kennedy had picked up the morning papers which had been left at the door of our apartment and was hastily running his eye over the headlines on the first page, as was his custom. "By Jove, Walter," I heard him exclaim. "What do you think of that a robbery below the deadline and in Langhorne's office, too." I hurried out of my room and glanced at the papers, also.
"I hate to go, Miss Ashton," he was adding. "I'd stay if I saw any prospect of the others going. But you see this is the first time to-night that I've had a word with you alone." It was not only an emergency, but there were limits to Kennedy's eavesdropping propensities, and spying on Carton's love affairs was quite another thing from Langhorne's. Quickly Craig turned the lever all the way over.
"And," he went on, "it's barely possible that he may know something, or some of his followers may, about the robbery of Mr. Langhorne's safe, if not about the complete and mysterious disappearance of Betty Blackwell." "They'd stop at nothing to save their precious skins," commented Miss Ashton. "Perhaps that is a good lead.
Boswell, Dr. George Fordyce, Mr. Gibbon, Dr. R. B. Sheridan. E. no doubt stands for Edmund Burke, and J. for Joshua Reynolds. Who are meant by the other initials cannot be known. Mr. Croker hazards some guesses; but he says that Sir James Mackintosh and Chalmers were as dubious as himself. See Langhorne's Plutarch, ed. 1809, ii. 133.
Of how great consequence is it, then, that our endeavours should be exerted in stemming the propagation of errors, whether arising from ignorance, or prompted by motives of base cupidity, in giving assistance to the disseminations of useful truths, and to the perfection of ingenious discoveries. Langhorne's Life of Mr. Collins Reverii Praxis Medica, p. 188.
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