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Merritt took the wrong turn, and, with a heart beating fast and hard, Henson climbed upwards. It was a long time before his courage came back to him. He did not feel really easy in his mind until he had passed the lodge-gates at Longdean Grange, where he was fortunate enough, after a call or two, to rouse up Williams. The latter came with more alacrity than usual.
So he creeps into the house and lies before her bedroom door, and when Mr. Henson comes along the dog takes it in his 'ead as he wants to go in there. And now Rollo's got inside, and nobody except Miss Enid dare go near. I pity that there undertaker when he comes." Walker shuddered slightly. Longdean Grange was a fearful place for the nerves.
Mark the beautiful cunning of it. My word, we have a foe worthy of our steel to meet." "We? Do you mean to say that your enemy and mine is a common one?" "Certainly. When I found my foe I found yours." "And who may he be, by the same token?" "Reginald Henson. Mind you, I had no more idea of it than the dead when I went to Longdean Grange to-night.
"Well," Bell said, impatiently, "I'm only a mere man, after all." "Henson is at Longdean; he turned up an hour ago, and at the present moment is having his supper in the library before going to bed. But that is not the worst part of it. Williams heard the dogs making a great noise by the gates, and went to see what was wrong.
Reginald Henson had had more than one unpleasant surprise lately, but none so painful as the sight of Lord Littimer seated in the Longdean Grange drawing-room with the air of a man who is very much at home indeed. The place was strangely changed, too. There was an air of neatness and order about the room that Henson had never seen before.
Enid told me all this the night before I left Longdean Grange. Dr. Bell, I am absolutely certain that I have had in my hand just now the very case bought by Ruth from Lockhart's in Brighton!" Bell was considerably impressed with the importance of Chris's discovery, though at the same time he was not disposed to regard it in the light of a coincidence.
Now, will you be so good as to tell me how those girls got hold of my synopsis?" "That came about quite naturally. Your synopsis and proof in an open envelope were accidentally slipped into a large circular envelope used by a firm of seed merchants and addressed to Longdean Grange, sent out no doubt amongst thousands of others. Chris saw it, and, prompted by curiosity, read it.
There was a postscript to the letter which David showed to Bell with a certain malicious glee. "A nasty one for our friend Henson," he said. "What a sweet surprise it will be for that picturesque gentleman the next time he goes blackmailing to Longdean Grange." Bell chuckled in his turn. The net was drawing very close about Henson. "How is Van Sneck to-day?" David asked.
He was hardly out of the house before Ruth Gates arrived. She looked a little distressed; she would not stay for a moment, she declared. Her machine was outside, and she was riding over to Longdean without delay. A note had just been sent to her from Chris. "My uncle is in Paris," she said. "So I am going over to Longdean for a few days. Lord Littimer is there, and Frank also.
The property also included a very old house, called Longdean Grange, not far from Rottingdean, where the lady, Mrs. Henson, lives at present. Nobody ever goes there, nobody ever visits there, and to keep the place free from prying visitors a large number of savage dogs are allowed to prowl about the grounds." Bell listened eagerly.
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