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The first sheet was headed: Dying Confession of Margaret Langmore. "A fine forgery, if I do say so myself," he mused. "Mat, you always were a plum with the pen. I'll add a line telling where she can be found and then send it to the coroner. That will be better than leaving it around here. She might find it before she drank that dose." He paused again. "Perhaps she won't drink it after all.
The question was, What? As the detective was walking back to the hotel he saw Raymond Case approaching and went to meet the young man. "Oh, Mr. Adams, I am glad to meet you," cried Raymond. "Have you learned anything new?" "A little but not a great deal. How is Miss Langmore this morning?" Raymond drew a long sigh. "I do not think she is much better. She is more quiet, but "
When out on the street, Adam Adams ran into Tom Ostrello, arm in arm with Letty. He was amazed for an instant, and then his face broke into a smile. "I just couldn't help it, Uncle Adam!" cried the girl. "I had to come here to congratulate Tom on his escape." "Well, I don't blame you, Letty. Yes, it has turned out well for you. I hope it turns out as well for Miss Langmore and Mr. Case."
"You can tell me what the trouble is and if I decline to take the case I will give you my promise not to say a word to any outsider of what has passed between us." "Oh, I know I can trust you, Mr. Adams, otherwise I should not have called here. My father said you were the squarest man he had ever dealt with. I came to see you about the Langmore affair." "You mean the murder of Mr. and Mrs.
The docther ought to tell that sure an' he has the eddication, an' Oi haven't." "There were no marks of violence?" "Phat?" "The victims had not been struck down?" "Oi dunno as to that, sur better axed the docther." "Hum!" Coroner Busby mused for a moment. "How long have you lived with the Langmore family?" "Iver since Mr. Langmore married his sicond woife." "How many of the family lived at home?"
I did not have money enough to help him by myself, for my capital was tied up in such a fashion that I could not get at it. More than that, I had in my possession two one hundred dollar bills, which my mother had gotten from Mr. Langmore, and both of these were counterfeits." "One of those bills you had tried to pass at a theatre, eh?" "Ha! You know that, too! Then you have been following me up?"
The coroner, short, fat and bald-headed, looked around anxiously and then turned to the chief of police, who was near at hand. "I don't see Miss Langmore." "Neither do I," answered the guardian of the law, with a shrug of his shoulders, as if it was none of his especial business, "Yes, but ahem! you are ahem! responsible " "She'll be here, coroner, don't worry."
"The United States Government has been trying to follow up those bills for several years." "I came to the house and saw my mother. Mr. Langmore had gone to the bank. There had been a family row, but that was not all of the trouble. Mr. Langmore was strangely excited, so my mother said, and had declared he was going to have somebody arrested, before the week was out."
Adam Adams described the fellow minutely, but Raymond Case shook his head. "I can't place him. But that is not strange," he added. "I know very few folks in this neighborhood." "Do you know a man named Matlock Styles." "Not very well I met him once, when he was calling on Mr. Langmore on business.
"He was at the breakfast table, but afther that he wint to the bank." "Did you hear anything more?" "Not right away, sur. Oi wint to me work. Whin Mr. Langmore came from the bank Oi heard him talkin' to Miss Margaret." "What was said then?" "Oi dunno exactly, exceptin' that he said he was sorry she an' her stepmother had quarreled, an' he wanted her to make it up wid his woife."
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