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"Yes. Maraquito, or Senora Gredos, or whatever she calls herself, told me you had just gone. I saw her in a little room off the salon where the play went on." The detective was surprised by this ready admission, and at once became suspicious. It would seem that Mrs. Octagon, expecting such a question, was uncommonly ready to answer it. "May I ask why you went to see this woman?" he demanded.
Why, Caranby would have probably let out the land, and foundations would have been dug for new villas, when our plant would have been discovered." "Who are you, Hale?" "Who do you think?" asked the dying man, chuckling. "One of the Saul family. You have the same eyebrows as Maraquito." "And as Mrs. Herne, who really was Maraquito." "Yes, I know that. But who are you?"
Well, you see how I can force Mrs. Octagon's hand. What do you say?" Mallow put his hands to his head quite bewildered by the information. "You must give me time to think," he said, "but if I consent " "You marry Miss Saxon. I ask no reward for my services. All I want is to get you out of my way as regards Maraquito. I will give you the forged check on the day you wed Miss Saxon.
"Why?" echoed Caranby in surprise, "in order to stop the marriage with Cuthbert. Maraquito loves Cuthbert and hates Juliet. I daresay this is the solution of Mrs. Octagon's strange behavior since the death. It is Maraquito who is stopping the marriage by threatening to denounce Mrs. Octagon for the murder of her aunt. Juliet knows this, and hence her reticence."
"I'll catch the whole gang," he murmured, and took his departure, having learned what he wished to know to wit, that Gibber had disappeared. "Without doubt he was the boy who poisoned Tyke," said Jennings, as he walked home with a cigar for company. "I believe Maraquito is the head of the gang, and the fatal woman that Caranby talks about.
Emilia left six thousand a year, so you may guess that Maraquito and I made money also. But she was in love with Mallow, and would not come away. I feared Caranby should take it into his head to search the house " "Was that why you had it burnt?" "No. Tyke did that out of revenge, because Maraquito marked him with a knife. Do you think I would have been such a fool as to burn the house.
If his mother knew that he was in danger of being arrested she would consent to your marriage, and then I might marry Maraquito. I have come here to tell you this." "But if Miss Saxon has the bill, and there is a difficulty of proving the signature, owing to Miss Loach's death, I don't see " "Ah, not in this case. But Basil Saxon forged my name also. I hold a forged check.
At the side near the window there was a long table covered with green baize. Round this several gentlemen in evening dress were standing. Others played games of their own at separate small tables, but most of them devoted themselves to baccarat. Maraquito held the bank. Her couch was drawn up against the wall, and the red silk curtains of the window made a vivid background to her dark beauty.
"I have you now," she said breathlessly. "I love you I love you I will not let you go!" What Cuthbert would have done it is hard to say. Apparently Maraquito was determined to hold him there. But at this moment Jennings appeared at the door. On seeing him arrive so unexpectedly, Maraquito uttered a cry of rage and dismay, and released Mallow.
But even she had not been able to suggest a clue to the assassin, although she was in full possession of the facts. "It's about this new case I wish to speak," said Jennings. "By the way, Peggy, you know that woman Maraquito I have talked of?" "Yes. The gambling-house. What of her?" "Well, she seems to be implicated in the matter." "In what way?"
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