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Updated: June 7, 2025
A walk in the country by day or night and in solitude had always had attractions for Brereton and he set out on this with zest. But he had not gone a hundred yards in the direction of the moors when Avice Harborough came out of the gate of Northrop's garden and met him. "I was coming to see you," she said quietly. "I have heard something that I thought you ought to hear, too at once."
"Did you see him go?" "Why er no," replied Bernardo, as if that were a new idea. "I left him here at least, I didn't see him go out." Kennedy tried the door of Northrop's room, which was at the far end, in a corner, and communicated with the hall only through the main floor of the museum. It was locked. A pass-key from the janitor quickly opened it.
Doctor Bernardo was visibly uneasy as Kennedy proceeded. Cool enough up to the time of the mention of the treasure, I fancied, now, that he was growing more and more nervous. Craig laid down on the table the reed stick with the little darkened cylinder on the end. "That," he said, "is a little article which I picked up beneath Northrop's window yesterday. It is a piece of anno-noki, or bushi."
Northrop had given him and glanced quickly over one after another of the letters. "Ah!" he exclaimed, fairly devouring one dated at Mitla. "Listen it tells about Northrop's work and goes on: "'I have been much interested in a cavern, or subterraneo, here, in the shape of a cross, each arm of which extends for some twelve feet underground.
Clearly, at least, if she existed at all, she was one of the millions not of Spanish but of Indian descent in the country south of us. As I reasoned it out, it seemed to me as if she must have been an accomplice. She could not have got into Northrop's room either before or after Doctor Bernardo left. Then, too, the toe-and shoe-prints were not hers.
The Judge even visited her during the day and addressed the school with extreme suavity. He was, however, very seriously affronted, and had not passed his Sunday without diligent preparation among parents and children to make Miss Northrop's position untenable.
Mallalieu was Cotherstone's partner. Mallalieu went to Northrop's house to play cards at ten o'clock. It might be well to find out, quietly, what Mallalieu was doing with himself up to ten o'clock. But the main thing was what was Cotherstone doing during that hour of absence? And had Cotherstone any reason of his own, or shared with his partner for wishing to get rid of Kitely?
Kennedy was looking straight at Professor Bernardo. "A friend of mine in Mexico has written me about an inscription," he burst out. "I received the letter only to-day. As nearly as I can gather, there was an impression that some of Northrop's stuff would be valuable in proving the alleged kinship between Mexico and Japan, perhaps to arouse hatred of the United States."
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