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"I'd have given a good deal if that fellow Schmall had saved his neck for the gallows!" he muttered. "He's cheated me!" "It's my impression," said the chief, "that if Miss Slade hadn't been so smart, Schmall would have cheated his two accomplices.
However, there will be no consequences of that sort for one of them. Schmall has escaped us!" "Got away!" exclaimed Fullaway. "Great Scott you don't mean that!" "Schmall committed suicide this afternoon," replied the chief calmly. "Clever man in his own line, which was a very bad line.
He too, knew of it, and he told Schmall and Van Koon, but Ebers supplied the detailed information of what you were doing, through access, as Miss Slade said, to your papers which you left lying about, you know." "I know I know!" groaned Fullaway. "Careless careless!" "Very!" said the chief, with a smile at Allerdyke "Teach you a lesson, perhaps. However, there this knowledge was.
And will ye be afther takin' a picter wid that schmall bit av a black box? How do ye do it at all, I do' know." "Oh, I go into a dark closet and put a gelatine plate in the box, and then I go outdoors and take my picture." "A gilitin plate, is it?
Anyway, Merrifield whose chief object is, I must also remind you, the clearing of himself from any charge of murder he doesn't mind the other charge, but he does object to the graver one! says that though he's been playing it straight for some time, ever since he went into Delkin's service, in fact he'd had negotiations of a questionable sort with both Schmall and Van Koon before years ago, in this city and in New York.
Schmall had set up a business here in the East End as a small manufacturing chemist he'd evidently a perfect and a diabolical genius for chemistry, especially in secret poisons and down there Merrifield and Van Koon used to go. Also, there used to go there the young man Ebers, or Federman we'll stick to Ebers who, from Merrifield's account, seems to have been a tool of Schmall's.
The minute I've done me taties it's down in the laundry Oi'm goin', an' Oi'll not bother ye at all; but here, take this schmall, little candle wid ye whan ye go in, fer it's that dhark ye'll not see yer hand forninst ye," and she caught up a candle from the shelf. "No, no! I don't want any light; the darker it is the better." "It's crackin' yer head aff ye'll be."
Schmall, he says, was the active partner in all this he took all that into his own hands. According to Merrifield, he does not know, nor Van Koon either, if it was Schmall who went down to Hull and shot Lydenberg, or if Lydenberg was murdered by some person who had a commission for his destruction from some secret society Lydenberg, he believed, was mixed up with that sort of thing."
The skipper stared at him blankly, meanwhile swabbing at his burns with oiled waste. "Yat, it iss better so, mine friendt. It wass not arranged like this, but it iss much better so, now ve haf lost no mans, after all. Schall ve put into dot schmall cove dere, captain? It vill hide us from the riffer, unt pretty soon our friendts vill be dere. The boat iss too full; unt dese mans need cool grass."
"That's what they'll have to satisfy a judge and jury about! I think they'll find it difficult. But that's about all. Except this that they were all three about to clear out when the enterprising Miss Slade turned up and told Schmall she'd got the Nastirsevitch jewels. That was a stiff proposition for them. But they were equal to it.
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