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Updated: June 16, 2025
Well, if he, Jimmie Dale, was, after all, to learn the cause of the excitement that seemed suddenly to have possessed the underworld, he could at least have asked for no better or more thoroughly posted informant than the Wowzer. And now his curiosity was aroused. For an instant the idea that it might be Melinoff's murder flashed across his mind; but he dismissed that idea at once.
He knew now why the Pippin had gone to Melinoff's old Melinoff's stock, more than any other dealer's, would be the most likely to supply the Pippin with the garments that, if not too closely inspected, would pass muster for Silver Mag's.
Where where did the police come from?" "I sent them from Melinoff's," said Jimmie Dale grimly. The Pippin came up on his elbow. "You!" he gasped. "You you know what happened there you were wise to everything all the time?" "No," said Jimmie Dale. "I only knew you had murdered Melinoff. You left one of your cuff links there." "Did I?" said the Pippin. He sank back on the floor again.
But it was already long after eleven o'clock, and to-night, with Melinoff's murder disposed of now, he was through, he hoped, with the underworld forever.
There was, indeed, nothing else that he could do and Melinoff's, for that matter, was on the way from Bristol Bob's to the Sanctuary. Yes, why not?
The Pippin's nerves, as he crept back to the scene of his crime, would be badly frayed and unstrung, unless he was a man lacking wholly in imagination, which the Pippin, once having been an actor, inherently could not be; and, coupled with this, prompting the Pippin to run at once for cover, would be the fact that he could not by any means be certain that the link had been lost there in the room itself, since it might equally have, been forced loose during his escape, say, for instance, while climbing the series of backyard fences that would have confronted him from the moment he left Melinoff's rear door providing always, of course, that the Pippin, as it seemed logical and as the evidence seemed to indicate, had made his escape in that manner.
Jimmie Dale's voice had sharpened perceptibly "I called you once before, you will perhaps remember though it is a very long time ago, in reference to a certain diamond necklace and a you will pardon the term gentleman by the name of Markel. ... Ah, you recognise the Gray Seal's voice now, do you! ... No, don't apologise.... I thought perhaps you might be interested in the possibility of another scoop.... Yes, quite so! ... I would suggest then that you get the police to accompany you to the back room of Melinoff's, the old-clothes dealer's shop.... Yes, I thought you might know the place.
There had even been then, it seemed, no need for Melinoff's dying accusation the evidence of the Pippin's guilt would have been plain enough to the first person who found old Melinoff and moved the old man's body.
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