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Updated: June 13, 2025
Sitting at Randal's desk, he wrote rapidly the following note: "Got the money. Enclose key. Melchard's the man we want. Get his address. 'Phone cut outside. Wire me address P.D.Q. DICK." Through the window he went to his car in the drive. "Martin," he said, "get out Sir Randal's car and take this note to him. Go to New Scotland Yard. They'll tell you where he is. Drive like hell."
"Oh, my foot!" she cried. Dick's chief fear was that shooting should begin too soon. But he heard Melchard's high voice shouting angrily to Mut-mut in his own tongue. "Jagun pakai snapong. Brenkali akau mow pukul sama prempuan." And Dick smiled, turning his head in time to see Mut-mut tuck away his revolver. He leaned over Amaryllis, with pretence of trying to pull her to her feet. "All right.
The first thing to do, therefore, was to find Melchard's address, and the first man to ask was Caldegard. If Caldegard could not give it to him, it meant a long hunt with the police. Anyway, he must begin with Caldegard. He crossed to the telephone, lifted the receiver, and, hearing no tinkle, blew into the transmitter with the receiver at his ear. Hearing nothing, he hung it up with a curse.
But as she spoke they heard the detonations of a back-fire, and pictured, though they could not see, Melchard's avengers plunging away southward, past the end of the lane into which Dick had turned. This lane between two rows of blunt cottage-fronts soon proved itself not merely a refuge, but an avenue.
Dick turned him over, lifted an eyelid, and, convinced that the man was unconscious, fetched from the car his bottle of the strange device, and poured a stream from its neck into Melchard's half-open mouth. For some moment's after, he was afraid that the fit of choked coughing his rough remedy had caused would compel him to leave a second corpse by the roadside.
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