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Jimmie Dale, balancing Markel's cash box on one knee, drummed softly with his finger tips on the cover. "The vein petered out," Wilbur went on. "But I was still confident. I sank all the proceeds of the first strike and sank them fast, for unaccountable accidents that crippled me both financially and in the progress of the work began to happen." Wilbur flung out his hands impotently.
Carruthers was to hear more of Markel and Markel's necklace than he thought, though for the time being the subject dropped between the two men. It was still early, barely ten o'clock, when Carruthers left the club, and, preferring to walk to the newspaper offices, refused Jimmie Dale's offer of his limousine.
You have robbed Markel's safe I am the one man in the world who would have a reason above all others for doing that and Markel knows it. He will accuse me of it. He can prove I had a motive. I have not been home to-night. Nobody knows I am here. I cannot prove an alibi. What have you done!"
Jimmie Dale had already passed the first one the next would be Markel's then and it loomed ahead of him now, black and shadowy and unlighted. Jimmie Dale shot a glance around him there was stillness, quiet everywhere no sign of life no sound. Jimmie Dale's face became tense, his lips tight and he stepped suddenly from the sidewalk in among the trees.
"You'll oblige me by keeping your mouth shut," observed Jimmie Dale politely and he whipped the cord of Markel's dressing gown loose and began to tie the man to the tree. "You have many unpleasant characteristics, Markel your voice is one of them. Shall I repeat that I do not like you?" He stepped to the back of the tree. "Pardon me if I draw this uncomfortably tight.
He began to read aloud hurriedly and in snatches: "DEAR PHILANTHROPIC CROOK: Charleton Park Manor Markel's house is the second one from the gates on the right-hand side library leads off reception hall on left, door opposite staircase telephone in reception hall near vestibule entrance, left-hand side safe is one of your father's make, No. 14,321 clothes closet behind the desk probably will be kept in cash box five servants; two men, three maids quarters on top story Markel and wife occupy room over library French windows to dining room on opposite side of the house opening on the lawn get it TO-NIGHT, Jimmie TO-MORROW WOULD BE TOO LATE dispose of it see fit Henry Wilbur, Marshall Building, Broadway fifth story "
Markel's 'phone is er out of order. . . . Yes. . . . And, by the way, speaking of 'phones, Mr. Carruthers, between gentlemen, I know you will make no effort under the circumstances to discover the number I am calling from. Good-night, Mr. Carruthers." Jimmie Dale hung the receiver abruptly on the hook. "You see," said Jimmie Dale, turning to Wilbur and then he stopped.
From above came wild confusion women's voices in little shrieks; men's voices shouting in excitement; doors opening, running feet. And then Jimmie Dale had snatched the revolver from the floor where Markel had dropped it in the scuffle, and was pressing it against Markel's forehead and Markel, terror-stricken, had collapsed in a flabby, pliant heap.
Jimmie Dale's face hardened like stone the answer came almost from the very threshold in front of him: "I can't sleep, I tell you" it was Markel's voice, in a disgruntled snarl. "I was a fool to bring the confounded thing home. I'm going to take the library couch for the rest of the night." It happened quick, then quick as the winking of an eye.
Markel's country house, and if you hurry a man out there you ought to be able to give the public an exclusive bit of news, a scoop, I believe you call it you see, Mr. Carruthers, I am not ungrateful for, I might say, the eulogistic manner in which the MORNING NEWS-ARGUS treated me in that last affair, and I trust I shall be able to do you many more favours I am deeply in your debt.
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