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Rockamore depart, and my father's voice in the hall, after the slamming of the front door, telling Wilkes to retire, that he would need him no more that night. I heard the butler's footsteps pass down the hall, and then I rose and opened my door again. I don't know why, but I felt that I wanted to speak to father when he came up on his way to bed."
Blaine interrupted himself to ask sharply. "Do you also recall your reply? 'How about poor Herbert Armstrong? His wife " "It's a lie! A d d lie!" cried Rockamore. "I was not in this room that night! Such a conversation never occurred! Who told you of this? Who dares accuse me?" "I do!"
He begged me not to be impatient, to wait until I had time to think the matter over and consult himself and Mr. Mallowe, saying that they were both doing all that could be done to locate Ramon, and Mr. Rockamore was, also, but I told him it was too late, that you were on your way here." "That was right. I am glad you told him. The fact that you have retained me to search for Mr.
The detective pursued relentlessly. "The brandy-and-soda, which Lord Ashfrith was drinking at the moment of his death, was naturally a pale amber color. So was the brandy which your Uncle Alaric drank as he died. And prussic acid is amber-colored, too, Mr. Rockamore! Lord Ashfrith was carving a peach-stone when the end came, and the odor of peaches clung to his body.
He had known the man as an employee of a somewhat shady private detective agency several years before and had heard that he had later been connected in some capacity with the city police, but had never come into actual contact with him. What business could a detective of his caliber have to do with Bertrand Rockamore?
Mallowe is not one of my parishioners, but I understand that as president of the Street Railways, he was closely associated with your dear father in many affairs of finance. Mr. Rockamore I know to be a man of almost unlimited power in the world in which Mr. Lawton moved. Should you not see them?
Remember that the girls must be absolutely trustworthy, and the stenographer who will be placed in the office of Mr. Rockamore must be particularly expert." After the detective had taken his departure, Anita Lawton descended quickly to the office of the secretary. "Emily," she asked, "is Loretta Murfree in, or Fifine Déchaussée?" "I think they both are, Miss Lawton. Shall I ring for them?"
Paddington, on Margaret Hefferman's testimony, had assuredly succeeded in mulcting the promoter, Rockamore, of a large sum in a clear case of blackmail, but on the face of it there was no proof that it was connected with the matter of Pennington Lawton's insolvency.
My three guardians have been unremitting in their attentions, particularly Mr. Rockamore, who calls daily. He has just left me." "Miss Lawton, I have decided that the time has come for us to declare ourselves openly not in regard to the mystery of your father's insolvency, but concerning the disappearance of Ramon Hamilton.
"I accuse you, Bertrand Rockamore, of the murder of my father! It was I who heard your conversation here in this room; it was I who found the vial which contained the poison you used when your arguments and threats failed! I am not mistaken I knew that I could never be mistaken if I heard that voice again, shaken, as it was that night, with rage and defiance and fear!
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