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Mayes never recovered consciousness, and was dead when we visited the hospital the day after; both skull and spine were badly fractured. And the very last we saw of the Red Triangle was the implement with which it had been impressed, which was found in his pocket. It was a small triangular prism of what I believe is called soapstone.
Denson had left his lodgings, and as to the office, that, he would guess, would be in the hands of the police, on Samuel's complaint. The immediate result of this affair on the only honest member of Mayes's circle I have told in the case of Mr. Jacob Mason. He was not yet thoroughly in Mayes's hands, but he had "dabbled," as he remorsefully confessed, and Mayes had already found him useful.
"You will excuse me, gentlemen, I am sure, and make allowances for my feelings," he said. "There is not a great deal more to tell. Mayes did not last long in Hayti. Domingue was overthrown, and Mayes left the island, I was told, and made for another part of the world. Years afterward I heard of his being in China, though what truth there may have been in the rumour I cannot say.
I sat in it, so that my wrist rested at somewhere near the level of my shoulder. "Mr. Brett," Mayes pursued, when his man was gone, "I am not so implacable a person as you perhaps believe me; in fact, I can assure you that my disposition is most friendly." "Then unfasten this handcuff," I said.
He was only gone a second or two, and you will remember that Corder saw Mayes leaving the premises within two minutes of that time!" "Yes!" "Well, Telfer was back in a second or two, without the paper, and went on with his affairs as before. That's pretty striking, eh?" "Yes," Hewitt answered thoughtfully, "it is."
You'll have to be careful, Plummer, and not show yourself. That is where Brett will be useful, since he isn't known; if anybody is to be seen let it be him. I shall be very careful myself though I shall have some little disguise; and I fancy I shall not be so likely to be seen as you." "What are we to do?" I asked. "Well, of course, if you see Mayes in the open, grab him instantly.
"Never mind," said Hewitt. "Please go on." "After that I came out every night, in the hope of seeing my enemy again. On several evenings I saw the young artist waiting by the barn expectantly, but nobody joined him. I found that this young man was lodging at a cottage in the village, and I resolved not to lose sight of him. "At last, on Thursday night, I saw Mayes again. Mr.
Now that note was written in a cypher which Mayes knew was as plain as print to whom? To me. I am on his trail, and this note is deliberately flung in my way, open as the day, but with every appearance of secrecy. I am his dangerous enemy, and he knows it as he told you, in fact, yesterday. If he can clear me away, he can take breath and make himself safe.
I might have tried to get aboard a foreign ship in the harbour, but I knew that would be useless. I should have been given up on whatever criminal charge Mayes chose to present, and my wife and children with me. I had hope of somehow getting to San Cristobel, where I had a friend over the border in the other Government of the island, the Dominican Republic.
It was from Broady Sims that we learnt the exact use and meaning of this implement: though he would not say a word till he had seen with his own eyes Mayes lying dead in the mortuary. Then he gasped his relief and said, "That's the end of something worse than slavery for me! I'll turn straight after this." Sims's story was long, and it went over ground that concerns none of Hewitt's adventures.
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