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Then came the cablegram from Mr. Ocumpaugh, which threw amateur as well as professional detectives into the field. Among the latter was myself; which naturally brings me back once more to my own conclusions. Of one thing I felt sure.
A The Ocumpaugh mansion. B The Bungalow. C Mrs. Carew's house. D Private path. E Gap in hedge leading to the Ocumpaugh grounds. F Gap leading into Mrs. Carew's grounds. As I took this all in, I ventured to ask some particulars of the family living so near the Ocumpaughs. "Who occupies that house?"
Carew's always rich voice so very mellow? I wished I knew; but I was successful, I think, in keeping that wish out of my face, and preserving my manner of the simply polite listener. "Mr. Ocumpaugh was on a hunting trip," she proceeded, after a slight glance my way.
"Those who think to reap dollars from the distress which has come upon the Ocumpaugh family will eat ashes for their pains. Money will be spent, but none of it earned, unless you, or such as you, are hired at so much an hour to follow trails."
All its resources will be devoted to this business and I hope to succeed, madam. If, as I suspect, you are on your way to Mrs. Ocumpaugh, please tell her that Robert Trevitt, of Trevitt and Jupp, hopes to succeed." "I will," she emphasized. Then stepping back to me in all the grace of her thrilling personality, she eagerly added: "If there is any information I can give, do not be afraid to ask me.
Ocumpaugh, I should have immediately given up all hope of ever obtaining access to her presence; and even with this fact to back me, I approached the house with very little confidence in my ability to win my way through the high iron gates I had so frequently passed before without difficulty. And indeed I found them well guarded.
Startled as I had seldom been, for reasons which will hereafter appear, I surveyed her in mingled wonder and satisfaction. "His name?" I demanded. "I do not know his name." Again I stopped to look at her. "Does Mrs. Ocumpaugh?" "I do not think so. She only knows what I told her." "And what did you tell her?" "Ah! who are these?"
I should like the privilege of imparting the same to Mrs. Ocumpaugh herself." "Impossible." "Excuse me, if I urge it." "She can not see you. The doctor who has just gone says that at all hazards she must be kept quiet to-day. Won't Mr. Atwater do? Is it is it good news?" "That, Mrs. Ocumpaugh alone can say." "See Mr. Atwater; I will call him." "I have nothing to say to him." "But "
I know, because it broke just as she was leaving, and the beads fell all over the floor, and one rolled my way and I picked it up, scamp that I was, when both their backs were turned in their search for the others." "A bead a costly bead and you were not found out?" "No, Mrs. Ocumpaugh, she never seemed to miss it. She was too excited over what she had just done to count correctly.
Ocumpaugh had taken into consideration the fact of the child's shoes being rights and lefts, and when this attempt to second the first deception was decided on, it was thought a matter of congratulation that Gwendolen had been supplied with two pairs of the same make and that one pair yet remained in her closet. The mate of that shown by Mrs.
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