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He smiled again, and Merriton gravely shook his head, while Mr. Narkom, dropping for the time being his air of pompous boredom, became the interested listener in every line of his ample proportions. "Go on, old chap," he said eagerly. "Methane," said Cleek, serenely, "is a colourless, absolutely odourless gas, slightly soluble in water.

Whichever way it is, he's the most terrified object I've ever laid eyes on!" Merriton broke into a laugh. But there was not much merriment in it, rather a note of uneasiness which made Tony West glance up at him sharply. "Best place for you, old chap, is your bed," he said, getting to his feet and laying an arm across Nigel's shoulders.

It wasn't my shot, Mr. Headland it couldn't have been!" Cleek took a sudden step forward. "What's that? What's that?" he rapped out, sharply. "Your shot, Sir Nigel? This is something I haven't heard of before, and it's likely to cause trouble. Explain, please!" But Merriton was past explaining anything just then.

He spent many long evenings with Doctor Bartholomew talking the thing over, trying to reconstruct it, probe into it, hunt for new clues, new anything which might lead to a solution. But such talks always came to nothing. Every stone had already been turned, and the dry dust of the highway afforded little knowledge to Merriton.

Merriton made no reply, simply held his head a little higher and clasped the edge of the table more firmly. "Now," said Cleek, turning to the butler and fixing him with his keen eyes. "You are ready to swear that this is true, upon your oath, and knowing that perjury is punishable by law?" "Yes, sir." Borkins's voice was very low and rather indistinct. "Very well.

There was nothing now for him to do but to go back to Merriton Towers and as expeditiously as possible make up for the day lost from 'Toinette. So, after a visit to a big confectioners in Regent Street, and another to a little jeweller in Piccadilly, Merriton got into the train at Waterloo, carrying his parcels With a happy heart.

"Good luck and God bless you both," he said. "This is a fitting end, Merriton, and a new and glorious beginning." "And every moment of it, every second of it we owe to you, Mr. Cleek," returned Sir Nigel, in a deep, happy voice. "Time alone can show our gratitude I can't."

She had not looked at it for months, until the other day when she happened to examine one of those papers, and therefore went to the drawer and unlocked it. The revolver lying there drew her attention. Knowing that it was the same as the one owned by her fiance, Sir Nigel Merriton, and figuring so largely in this case, she took it out and idly examined it. One of the bullets was missing!

"There are the men from the barracks in Merriton; they can always be asked over," goes on Maurice. "And now, who else?" "The Marchmonts!" "Of course." He pauses. "And then there is Mrs. Bethune!" "Your cousin! Yes!" "Shall we ask her?" "Why should we not ask her?" She lifts one small, delicate, brown hand, and, laying it on his cheek, turns his face to hers.

His thoughts were with Merriton, shut away there in the village prison to await this day of reckoning, with, if the word should go against him, a still further day of reckoning ahead. A day when the cleverest brains of the law schools would be arrayed against him, and he would have to go through the awful tragedy of a trial in open court. What was a mere coroner's jury to that possibility?

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