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Updated: May 3, 2025
I made it in a forge at Southampton and it lies to-day under the waters of Como. My bag I had taken on previous occasions to the quarry, with a bottle of whisky and glasses, so Robert thought it not strange that I should do so again. We started for Foggintor and it was still broad daylight when we got there. I had already studied the quarry and determined on Robert Redmayne's resting-place.
"And that is all you know?" asked Brendon. "As to Captain Redmayne's movements yes," answered the elder. "There will probably be information awaiting us when we return to Princetown, as inquiries are afoot along both roads to Moreton and Exeter on the one side and by Dartmeet to Ashburton and the coast towns on the other.
The letter he wrote to his brother quite confirms it. The very writing shows a lack of restraint and self-control." "The writing was really his?" "I've compared it with another letter in Bendigo Redmayne's possession. It's a peculiar fist. I should say there couldn't be a shadow of doubt." "What shall you do next?" "Get back to Plymouth again and make close inquiries among the onion boats.
"Have you another communication something from the past I can compare with this?" he asked. Bendigo nodded. "I reckoned you'd want that," he answered and produced a second letter from his desk. It related to Robert Redmayne's engagement to be married and the writing was identical. "And what do you think he's done, Mr. Redmayne?" Brendon asked, pocketing the two communications.
It was a forgery that robbed the farm for food and lived in the cave and cut Bendigo Redmayne's throat. It was a forgery that tried to shoot you and missed." Mr. Ganns took snuff again and continued.
At the same time a new impetus was given to aviation by the relatively enormous power for weight of the atomic engine, it was at last possible to add Redmayne's ingenious helicopter ascent and descent engine to the vertical propeller that had hitherto been the sole driving force of the aeroplane without overweighting the machine, and men found themselves possessed of an instrument of flight that could hover or ascend or descend vertically and gently as well as rush wildly through the air.
They go and come and I can trace the craft that left Plymouth during the days that immediately followed the posting of Redmayne's letter. These will probably be back again with another load in a week or two. One ought to be able to check them." "A wild-goose chase, Brendon." "Looks to me as though the whole inquiry had been pretty much so from the first. We've missed the key somewhere.
No sign marked the cliff edge, but beneath, on the green sea, were boats from which fishermen still dredged for the dead. This work, long continued, had yielded no results whatever. Later in the day Brendon returned to his hotel and introduced himself to Miss Reed and her family to find that her brother, Robert Redmayne's friend, had returned to London.
"In the first place," declared Robert Redmayne's brother, "the man must be mad, whatever appears to the contrary. This story points to that, and seeing he is still free and has succeeded in existing and avoiding the police in two countries, one can only say that with his madness he has developed amazing cunning too. But, as Jenny reports, he's on his beam ends at last.
The fact seemed implicitly woven into her long letter, though another, less vitally interested in the writer, might have failed to observe it. Regretting only that Albert Redmayne's friend must be approached and hoping that Mr. Peter Ganns would at least allow him a few days' start, Brendon sought the famous American and found his direction without difficulty.
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