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Updated: June 10, 2025
'So that is your theory! 'Was it not yours, when you got me deposited in the vault? Hugo demanded with ferocious irony. 'I am bound to believe that it was. 'Perhaps not, said Ravengar, summoning his powers of self-control. 'But the common outcry against murder is apt to be very inconvenient for the person who chooses, as you put it, to end one incarnation and begin another.
'Where are you, then? Hugo demanded. 'Not far off, replied the mysterious voice in the telephone. It was unmistakably the voice of Louis Ravengar, but apparently touched with some new quality, some quality of resigned and dignified despair. Hugo wondered where the man could be.
Ravengar was in this morning's Paris papers. And I may tell you at once that it's in connection with that affair that I'm here. 'I also Hugo began. 'I may tell you at once, Darcy proceeded with increasing self-consciousness, 'that when I had the pleasure of meeting you before, Mr.
I had come out on top once too often for your peace of mind. In your opinion the world was too small to hold both of us. Accordingly, you evolved your terrific campaign. My business was to be seriously damaged. And I was to be murdered. And then you were to get the concern cheap from my executors, and to float me dead since you could not float me living. What folly, Ravengar!
Again Hugo sprang forward, and, snatching at the watch, tore it and the chain from Ravengar's waistcoat, dashed them to the floor, and stamped on them. He was amazed, and he was also delighted, at his own fury. The lust of destruction had got hold of him. 'Ass! he murmured, suddenly lowering his voice. 'Can't you guess what I mean to do? 'I cannot, Ravengar stammered.
He had decided to kill Ravengar. The desire to murder was in his heart, and in order to give all his instincts full play he had chosen a theatrical method of welcoming his victim into the fastness from which he was never to escape. 'D n! exclaimed Ravengar, evidently astounded to the uttermost to find himself in Hugo's dome, and in the presence of Hugo.
'Sit down, he said in a quiet, familiar voice. 'Don't bother about thanking me. Just tell me all about the history of your relations with Ravengar. And to himself he said: 'She shall talk to me, and I will listen, and we shall begin to be intimate. This is the greatest happiness I can have. Hang the future! I will give way to my mood.
'So when this stuff had melted, he explained to Simon, 'the paraffin would run into the charcoal, and there would be a magnificent flare-up. They looked at one another, amazed, astounded, speechless. And each knew that on the tip of the other's tongue, unuttered, was the word 'Ravengar. 'But why was it put in the lift? asked Simon.
Ravengar gave an affirmative sign. 'I meant either to get hold of this place or to ruin you. Remember what I suffered in the old days.... You see I'm frank with you. Help me. We're neither of us growing younger. I'm mad for that girl, and I must have her. Hugo put his hands into his pockets, and consulted his toes. This semi-step-brother of his somehow aroused his compassion.
Ever since he had learnt from Ravengar that Tudor had been ignorant of Ravengar's presence in the flat, and that Ravengar had had to 'dispose of' the housekeeper, a horrid suspicion had lurked at the back of his mind, and now this suspicion sprang out upon his hopes of Camilla's arrival, and fairly strangled them.
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