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"I will go straight on," she answered. "It was summertime and I was stopping with my Uncle Robert at Penzance when two great things indeed three great things happened. The war broke out, my grandfather died in Australia and, lastly, I became engaged to Michael Pendean. "I had loved Michael devotedly for a year before he asked me to marry him.
And the overmastering fact was that Jenny Pendean had lost her husband. If she were, indeed, a widow He shook his head impatiently and turned to Halfyard. "Should Robert Redmayne not be taken to-day, one or two things must be done," he said. "You'd better have some of that blood collected and the fact proved that it is human.
The criminal himself, in the pride of his craft and by reason of the consuming vanity that finally wrecked him, deliberately brought you in. It was part of his fun his art if you like that he should involve a great detective for the added joy of making a fool of him. You were the spice in his bloody cup for Michael Pendean the salt, the zest.
But the company of Pendean and Trecarrow owned some good little steamers and these were soon very valuable. So Michael, who had got to care for Dartmoor as much as I did, presently took steps and succeeded in obtaining a long lease of a beautiful and sheltered spot near Foggintor quarries, a few miles from here.
He seems to have been a silent and observant lad and never quarrelled with his father. "When at last Mrs. Pendean died in Italy, her husband attended the funeral at Naples and returned to England immediately afterward with his son. The boy was subsequently apprenticed to a dentist, having expressed a wish to follow that profession.
Michael Pendean indeed was dead enough, for it had been a part of my original conception that he should never reappear. Obviously he could not do so; and I, who had already created "Doria," now began to live my new part in life with zest and gusto a dramatist and actor in one.
We next assume that Pendean, having laid out his wife's uncle at Foggintor, gets into his clothes, puts on a red mustache and a red wig and starts for Berry Head on Redmayne's motor bicycle. The sack supposed to contain the body is found, and that is all.
But no Robert Redmayne appears. It is Giuseppe Doria. He has already had a long talk with his master about Jenny Pendean. He has told the old sailor of his love for Jenny and so forth. You, hidden, heard that yarn, and how Bendigo told him to stow the subject and say no more about it for another six months. "Now the next thing puzzled me for a moment; but I think I know what happened.
My dear, dear Albert, forgive me if I am blunt; but when you look back, presently, you will see that the great loss is really mine, not yours. Michael Pendean, once out of sight, gets a boat, adopts his disguise the false beard and mustache found upon him and presently rows round to Albert's steps.
He had not the least intention of ignoring his discovery and was quite prepared to arrest Robert Redmayne, even under his brother's roof if necessary; but he desired first to hear Jenny Pendean upon the subject before seeking the assistance of the Dartmouth police. He felt that she would not deceive him, or answer a direct appeal with a lie.
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