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Sane or mad, the mere existence of that brain was a menace before which Hugo trembled. He realized that Ravengar had been consummately acting during the latter part of their interview on the first day of the sale, and again consummately acting when he spoke to Hugo on the telephone. Ravengar had, beyond doubt, deliberately set himself to lure Camilla back to England, and he had succeeded.
'And when I decide, the thing is as good as done. Those proud, vain words of his, spoken to Louis Ravengar with all the arrogance of a man who had never met Fate like a lion in the path, often recurred to Hugo's mind during the next few weeks. And their futility exasperated him. He had decided to win Camilla, and therefore Camilla was as good as won!
No sooner was the door closed on me by that scoundrel Brown, and I found the vault not Polycarp's vault at all, than I knew to a certainty that you were at the bottom of the affair. So easy to make out afterwards that it was an accident! So easy to spirit Brown away! So easy to explain everything! Why, Ravengar, you intended to murder me! I saw the whole scheme in a flash.
Well' she became suddenly grave 'Mr. Ravengar used to pass my father's shop in the Edgware Road. He came in to buy things. It was a milliner's shop, and so he could buy nothing but bonnets and hats. He bought bonnets and hats. I often served him. He gave my father some very good hints about shares, but my father never took them. When my parents both died, Mr.
'Put any initials you like. Address it to Louis Ravengar, Esquire. Now listen to me. Go down to the auto garage, and choose a good man to take the note instantly; a second man must go with him. If they bring back Ravengar, he is to be taken to No. 6, Blair Street, shown upstairs, and brought along the bridge-passage into the building. It will be quite dark, and he will never guess.
'Perhaps he can't help it, Hugo said queerly. 'Everyone isn't like you and me. 'He can help robbing me of my future wife! 'But she left you of her own accord. 'Owen, she must marry me. It is essential. You must bring your influence to bear, Ravengar burst out wildly. 'She must be my wife! 'My dear fellow, Hugo protested calmly, 'what are you dreaming of? I have no influence.
'Not a word under any circumstances? 'Certainly. 'Well, it's 17, Place Saint-Étienne, Bruges, Belgium. '17, Place Saint-Étienne, Bruges. That's all right. I shan't forget. Look here, Louis, you'd better clear out of England. Go to America. Do you hear? I don't understand this about "ending it." You surely aren't thinking of He felt quite magnanimous towards Ravengar.
Hugo told Darcy the history of the night in the cemetery, and what preceded, and what came after it, including the strange death of Ravengar in a lunatic asylum, and how everything was explained or explicable even Mr. Brown, the manager of the Safe Deposit, had run up against justice in Caracas save and except the identity of Ravengar's accomplice during the last days.
'You don't know what I've been through. I feared that Ravengar, before killing himself, had arranged to to I don't know what I feared. Horrible, unmentionable things! You can't guess what I've been through. 'I, too, have suffered since we met last, said Camilla softly. 'Don't talk of it don't talk of it! he entreated her. 'I know all. I saw your image in a coffin.
The window was almost at a corner of the room, near a door; but Hugo had a perfect view of the two men within, and one was as certainly Louis Ravengar as the other was Francis Tudor. They were gesticulating violently and angrily, and a heavy, ornate Empire chair had already been overturned.
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