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He would have tossed it aside as one of his own had not the carnelian band attracted his attention. He hadn't smoked that quality of tobacco in years. He turned it over and over, and it grew more and more familiar. Mallow's!
This brief conversation in the orchid-house was the first healing balm that had been applied to the bleeding heart of the poetess. She was deeply grateful to Lord Mallow. This was indeed sympathy. How different from Roderick's clumsy advice and obtrusive affectation of candour. Mabel determined that she would do her best to make Lord Mallow's visit pleasant. She gave him a good deal of her society, in fact all she could spare from Roderick, who was not an exacting lover. They were so soon to be married that really there was no occasion for them to be greedy of tête-
Later that evening, after his guest had gone, Gray took occasion deliberately to put himself in Mallow's way and to get into conversation with him. This was not a difficult maneuver, for it was nearly midnight and the lobby was well-nigh deserted; moreover, it almost appeared as if the restless Mr. Mallow was seeking an acquaintance.
It succeeded, and it gave Dyck the victory, for Mallow's sword dropped from his hand. A fatigued smile came to Mallow's lips. He clasped the wounded arm with his left hand as the surgeon came forward. "Well, you got it home," he said to Dyck; "and it's deftly done." "I did my best," answered Dyck. "Give me your hand, if you will."
"She will not live, I think." "To whom did she tell her story?" "To Miss Sheila Llyn." The governor was nettled. "Oh, to Miss Llyn When did you see her?" "Just before I came to you." "What did the woman look like this Noreen Boyne?" "I do not know; I have not seen her." "Then how came you by the paper with her signature?" "Miss Llyn gave it to me." Anger filled Lord Mallow's mind.
"I am sorry," he said, when she desisted from her examination. "It's my fault," said Juliet unsuspiciously, and closed the door. She led the way along the passage and down the stairs. "Who are you?" she asked, turning round half way down. "I am a friend of Mallow's," said the detective. "I have never met you?" "Yet I have been to your house, Miss Saxon. Perhaps my name, Miles Jennings, may "
Yet he had a grip of himself, and preserved his defence intact; though once his enemy's steel caught his left shoulder, making it bleed. The seconds, however, decided that the thrust was not serious, and made no attempt to interrupt the combat. Dyck kept singularly cool. As Mallow's face grew flushed, his own grew paler, but it was the paleness of intensity and not of fear.
"You'll have a great reputation in Dublin town now, and you'll deserve it," Mallow added adroitly, the great paleness of his features, however, made ghastly by the hatred in his eyes. Dyck did not see this look, but he felt a note of malice a distant note in Mallow's voice. He saw that what Mallow had said was fresh evidence of the man's arrogant character.
"If you want my opinion, Mrs. Octagon killed her sister. A fatal woman, I tell you both a fatal woman." "And a clever one," said Jennings gloomily, "she has baffled me." Although Jennings appeared to acquiesce in Mallow's suggestion that the case should be abandoned, he had not the slightest intention of leaving the matter alone.
Mallow's friend, I am glad you have this case in hand," she fixed her eyes on the detective. "Have you discovered anything?" she asked anxiously. "Nothing much," replied Jennings, who rapidly decided to say nothing about his discovery of the knife. "I fear the truth will never be found out, Miss Saxon. I suppose you have no idea?" "I," she said, coloring, "what put such a thing into your head?
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