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Updated: June 23, 2025


The first news we received was when a clerk, going down to the basement, saw flames leaping out between the steel bars which constitute the door of No. 4 vault." Tarling nodded. "I need not ask you whether the books which Mr. Milburgh brought this morning had been placed in that safe, Sir Felix," he said, and the knight looked surprised. "Of course not.

I was half-strangled by an arm which had been thrown round my neck and I thought it was Milburgh who had detected me the first time and had come back to pinch me. I tried to push him away, but he struck me on the jaw. "I was getting frightened for I thought the noise would rouse the people and the police would come, and I must have lost my head.

Tarling thought whimsically that this open space exercised the same attraction on him as it did upon Mr. Milburgh. "What were you going to see me about?" he asked suddenly, remembering that Whiteside had been on his way to the hotel when they had met. "I wanted to give you the last report about Milburgh." Milburgh again! All conversation, all thought, all clues led to that mystery man.

"Now, Milburgh, you can give me that confession you've got in your pocket." "I've burnt it, Mr. Tarling." "You're a liar," said Tarling calmly. "You knew very well I wouldn't let you go out of this room with that confession in your pocket and you tried to bluff me by burning a sheet of writing-paper. I want that confession." "I assure you " began Milburgh.

"I, Odette Rider, hereby confess that for three years I have been robbing the firm of Lyne's Stores, Limited, and during that period have taken the sum of £25,000." Tarling dropped the paper and caught the girl as she fainted. Milburgh had gone too far. He had hoped to carry through this scene without the actual disclosure of the confession.

Thornton Lyne shot a suspicious glance at him. "You have no particular reason for wishing to shield Miss Rider, have you?" he asked coldly. "No, sir, not at all. I beg of you not to think that," appealed the agitated Mr. Milburgh, "only it seems so extraordinary." "All things are extraordinary that are out of the common," snapped Lyne.

It was on the murder alone that a conviction could be secured; and this Milburgh evidently realised, for he made no attempt in the remarkable statement which followed to do more than hint that he had been guilty of robbing the firm. He sat huddled up in his chair, his manacled hands clasped on the table before him, and then with a jerk sat upright.

"You hobby seems to be preparing for suicide and changing your mind," he said. "I am sorry to hear you speak so flippantly on a solemn subject," said Milburgh. "As I say, I waited a little too long; but I was anxious for complete darkness to fall before I made my way into the flat. This I did easily because Odette had lent me her key.

He was watching Milburgh all the time, and when the stout man opened his mouth to yell he thrust a silk handkerchief, which he drew with lightning speed from his pocket, into the open mouth. "Wait, wait!" gasped the muffled voice of Milburgh. "I have something to tell you something that your master should know." "That is very good," said Ling Chu coolly, and pulled out the handkerchief.

The hand that went to his mouth shook, and Tarling, whose eyes had never left the man's face, saw the tremendous effort which he was making to recover his equanimity. "Yes, sir, that would be extraordinary," said Milburgh steadily.

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