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Inspector Halfyard waited until Brendon had read the messages and put them down. "About as easy as shelling peas eh?" he asked. "I expected an arrest," answered the detective. "It can't be long delayed." As though to confirm him the telephone bell rang and Halfyard rose and entered the box to receive the latest information. "Paignton speaking," said the message.
The motor boat from 'Crow's Nest' will be at Kingswear Ferry to meet the train reaching there at two o'clock to-morrow and I hope you may still be at Paignton and able to come here for a few hours." She added a word of thanks to him and a regret that his holiday was being spoiled by her tragedy.
"And a crust for our teeth," whispered Paignton Rob. The ears of the serving-man were keen, "Shall it be a venison pie?" he said. "A venison pie," broke in Morgan; "and I pay." The three broken sailor men attacked the ample venison pasty with a zeal and thoroughness that betokened long abstention from work of a similar nature, and the sack trickled gratefully down parched throats.
On the other hand, the sallow man knew Dan's lineage for four generations back, at least; knew his hopes, fears, recent deeds good and bad; could have told to a penny what money he had in his pocket; knew the reason why he sought Rob of Paignton, and a great deal of the latter worthy's past career.
On the cliff I emptied my sack, cast its stuffing to the winds, fastened my handbag to the bicycle, thrust the bloodstained sack into a rabbit hole, where it could not fail to be discovered, and then returned to Robert Redmayne's lodging at Paignton. There a telegram had already been sent informing the landlady of his return that night.
How the man that left Paignton in knickerbockers, and a big check suit and a red waistcoat on the morning after the murder got away with it and never challenged a single eye on rail or road well, it's such a flat contradiction to reason and experience that I can't easily believe the face value."
Men and women believed strange things of the wonderful western world, and they listened eagerly and without question to things their great-grandchildren would scoff at. A travelled sailor can fit himself into any company. Paignton Rob adjusted himself with the greatest nicety into his proper position that day.
In the meanwhile, to show you something of what may be seen by those who care to see, let me take you, in imagination, to a shore where I was once at home, and for whose richness I can vouch, and choose our season and our day to start forth, on some glorious September or October morning, to see what last night's equinoctial gale has swept from the populous shallows of Torbay, and cast up, high and dry, on Paignton sands.
And keep the cigar and boot lace here for the minute, though I attach no importance to either. Now I'll go and get some food and see Mrs. Pendean. Then I'll come back. I'll take the police car for Paignton at half past five if we hear nothing to alter my plans." "You will. This isn't going to spoil your holiday, after all." "What is it going to do, I wonder?" thought Brendon.
Pendean herself said that her husband and her uncle were the best of friends don't weigh; but the fact that Robert Redmayne stopped at Princetown with the Pendeans for over a week in friendship and asked them to Paignton, is of some weight.
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