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It was a smile of accepting the inevitable. He went with her to the forward deck where her staterooms were situated, and left her there in silence. Von Ritz, standing apart near the threshold of the smokeroom, heard his name paged almost before the speaker had entered the door, and turned to take from the hand of the bearer a Marconigram just relayed from shore.
"I am Miss Morse," she replied, "Miss Penelope Morse." "You were to have lunched here with Mr. Hamilton Fynes," the detective continued. "When, may I ask, did the invitation reach you?" "Yesterday," she told him, "by marconigram from Queenstown." "You can tell us a few things about the deceased, without doubt," Mr. Jacks said, "his profession, for instance, or his social standing?
Some decrease in temperature has occasionally been recorded, but more often none has been observed." But notification by Marconigram of the exact location of icebergs is a vastly different matter. I remember with deep feeling the effect this information had on us when it first became generally known on board the Carpathia.
If you have received a similar message I implore you to disregard it altogether. Let's give each other a fighting chance." It was signed "Maud Blithers." Mr. Blithers received a marconigram from the Jupiter when the ship was three days out from New York. It was terse but sufficient. "Have just had a glimpse of Prince Charming. He is very good-looking. Love to mother. Maud."
And all that I have written of him is equally true and applies word for word, with only such changes of gender as are needed, to the woman citizen also. The present time is harvest home for the prophets. The happy speculator in future sits on the piled-up wain, singing "I told you so," with the submarine and the flying machine and the Marconigram and the North Pole successfully achieved.
"All the same, it was the most extraordinary likeness I ever saw." Laverick, on his way back, went into a cable office and wrote out a marconigram to the Lusitania, Have you passenger Arthur Morrison on board? Reply. He signed his name and paid for an answer. Then he went back to his office. "Any one to see me?" he inquired. "Mr.
Perhaps you know the reason for his coming to Europe?" The girl shook her head. "Mr. Fynes and I were not intimately acquainted," she answered. "We met in Paris some years ago, and when he was last in London, during the autumn, I lunched with him twice." "You had no letter from him, then, previous to the marconigram?" the inspector asked.
Robin picked up the Marconigram, and calmly smoothed out the crinkles. Then he read it aloud, very slowly and with extreme disgust in his fine young face. It was a lengthy communication from Baron Romano, the Prime Minister in Edelweiss. "'Preliminary agreement signed before hearing Blithers had bought London, Paris, Berlin. He cables his immediate visit to G. Object now appears clear.
"The first Mrs. Harvey, who was alive then, was my greatest friend, and I was in and out of the place all the time. Now, perhaps, you can understand the significance of that marconigram from Hamilton Fynes asking me to lunch with him at the Carlton today." Mr. Richard Vanderpole was sitting bolt upright, gazing steadily ahead.
His linen was marked H. R. H., and certain laundry marks might serve to establish his identity after long and patient inquiry, but the detective who had charge of the case felt that it was becoming unusually complex when the victim's overcoat was produced and the pockets were found to contain letters, a Lusitania wine bill, and a Marconigram all pointing to the clear fact that the owner of the coat was John D. Curtis.
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