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Updated: June 10, 2025
Well, the day I called specially with a view to seeing her she was not there. She had left Ravengar's employment, and disappeared. Ravengar seemed to be rather perturbed about it. But perhaps he was perturbed about the suicide which had recently taken place in his office. I felt it I mean I felt her disappearance.
I saw it stated in a paper the other day that Louis Ravengar had successfully floated thirty-nine companies with a total capitalization of thirty millions. But my scalp will not be added to his collection. 'I shall not disclose the identity of my clients, Mr. Polycarp minced. 'But, speaking of Mr. Ravengar, I have noticed that what he wants he gets.
I knew him, and I knew that he meant it. He argued that Mr. Ravengar's financial operations had ruined thousands of people, including his brother and himself. 'But the inquest on old Powitt I seem to remember about it. Why didn't you give evidence? 'Because I was ill with brain-fever. When I recovered, all was finished. What was I to do? I warned Mr. Ravengar that young Powitt meant to kill him.
I was thinking of other sorts of secrets, and of that curious principle of English law that a wife can't give evidence against her husband.... You must pardon my fancy, he added. 'Do you mean to insinuate that my eagerness to marry Camilla Payne is in order to prevent her from being able to 'No, Louis; I mean to insinuate nothing. Can't you see a joke? 'I cannot, said Ravengar.
On the other hand, I am equally sure that on the few occasions when you and I have met I must have impressed you as a comparatively honest man. Is it not so? I speak without false modesty. Is it not so? Polycarp nodded. 'Well, then, proceeded Hugo, walking slowly about, 'you will probably need no convincing that in any difficulty between me and Ravengar I am in the right.
Is your revenge at last matured? Ravengar controlled himself, and glanced round as if for unseen aid in a forlorn enterprise. 'Owen, he said, moved, 'I'm here because I need your help. I won't say anything about the past. I know you were always good-natured. And you've worn better than I have. I need your help in a matter of supreme importance to me.
Ravengar certainly thought that young Powitt had seen what I had seen. That very night young Powitt was arrested for another theft, from his own employers, and it was not till after his arrest that he learnt that his brother had committed suicide. He got four years. When he received sentence, he swore that he would kill Mr. Ravengar immediately he came out of prison. I heard his threat.
I'd got money much more than old Ravengar imagined and I'm a bit of a philosopher, you know; I have my theories as to what constitutes real living. However, I won't bother you with those. I expect they're pretty crude, after all. Besides, my preparations were all knocked on the head. I saw Camilla Payne again in Hugo's. She had stopped typewriting, and was a milliner there.
Before the triple assault it fell at last, and the three tumbled pell-mell downstairs into the hall. The front-door was open. A cab was just driving away. It drove rapidly, very rapidly. 'After it! Hugo commanded. The hunt was up. Two minutes afterwards another cab drove up to the door. Ravengar and another man emerged from the area holding between them the form of a woman.
Now, there have been, and are, matters between Ravengar and me in which others had best not interfere, even indirectly. I shall end those matters in my own way, because I am the strongest, and because my hands are clean. I can give you no details. But let me tell you that once the whole of my life's dream was in this flat, this flat which you have legally closed, and I have illegally opened.
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