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We hope to be able to do the same with regard to papers discovered on Capella's body or among his belongings. Those bearing on Ooma himself are here" and he pointed to a small packet, neatly tied up, reposing on the mantelpiece. "You have done a somewhat serious thing." "We don't care a cent about that. Robert and I have both agreed that what Margaret has she keeps.
"It has a Japanese ring about it." "Nothing Scotch? Isn't it like Hume, for instance?" "By Jove! I never thought of that. Well, there, I give in. Ooma! Dash my buttons, that beats cock-fighting!" The barrister paid no heed to Winter's fall from self-importance. He pondered deeply on the queer twist given to events by the detective's statement. At last he took a volume from his book-case.
I must admit that each one of them is your discovery, except the fact that he is a Jap always excepting that but yesterday I strung them together, so to speak." "Ending your task by stringing Ooma, in imagination. I allow you full credit for your sensational development always excepting this, that I sent you to Middle Street. Why did he kill Sir Alan?
"Surely," said the barrister solemnly, "you are not so utterly inhuman that at the very point of death you still maintain the attitude of a disappointed avenger. What wrong had all these people done you to demand your murderous hate?" Ooma seemed for a moment to rouse himself from lethargy. Once again the black eyes sparkled with their menacing gleam.
Jiro's unconscious device had undoubtedly saved Brett from a murderous attack, and Ooma had probably seen him leave the Northumberland Avenue Hotel more than once whilst waiting to waylay David Hume. Hence, too, the partial recognition by Ooma when they met by night in Middle Street. The barrister could not help being milder in tone as he said: "I believe you are both telling the truth.
But this is a very serious matter. You must never again communicate with Ooma in any way. Avoid him as you would shun the plague, for within three or four days he will be in gaol, and you will be called upon to give evidence against him." At his chambers Brett found Holden awaiting him, with the tidings that Capella had gone to Whitby. The Italian's agents, Messrs.
"You have, indeed," he said tenderly. "But tell me about this fiend, Ooma. You say you saw him. Then you were in possession of his address?" "Yes, during the past five months. When Mr. Brett first appeared on the scene, I feared lest he should discover my secret. How could I connect it with the death of my brother?
Winter broke in with a hasty question: "If he is speaking the truth about the snake poison, shouldn't we send for a doctor?" No one had thought of this previously. Brett reproached himself for his forgetfulness. So strange are our civilised notions that we strive to save a man's life in order to hang him by due process at law. It was Ooma who answered. "Doctor!" he cried. "Bring him!
Ooma as man to man and I will teach him a trick or two, if only for your sake. The law will deal with him for Alan's affair. He has an odd name! It has a Japanese ring, yet you say he resembles our family?" Margaret, of course, could only describe him in general terms. As they returned to the hotel she explained her strange story in greater detail, largely on the lines already known to Brett.
He was surprised at my appearance, and thought I was his cousin Robert, whom he had not seen for years." At this remarkable statement the four listeners chiefly concerned looked wonderingly at each other. The main incidents of the family feud were repeating themselves in a ghostly manner. Ooma paid no heed to their amazement. He staggered unsteadily to a chair and sank into it limply.
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