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You will find two hundred and ten of them." "That is the exact number stolen from the Grand Duke," remarked M. Pigot, and fell to counting. The number was two hundred and ten. "Mr. Shearrow has the receipt," Godfrey added, and Shearrow took a paper from his pocket, unfolded it, and read the contents.
Shearrow and myself had a talk with the mayor this morning, and laid before him certain evidence in our possession this latest case among others and that your resignation was accepted at noon to-day." "My resignation!" snorted Grady. "I never wrote one!" "Tell the public that, if you want to," retorted Godfrey coldly. "That's your affair. You ought to have 'phoned it in when I told you to.
Grady, who has been the head of our detective bureau; this is Mr. Simmonds, a member of his staff; this is Mr. Lester, an attorney and friend of mine; and this is Mr. Shearrow, my personal counsel. Mr. Grady, Mr. Simmonds and Mr. Lester were present, last night," he added blandly, "when Crochard opened the secret drawer." Grady reddened visibly, and even I felt my face grow hot.
I'm so dizzy over last night's business that I'm running around in circles this morning. But I won't wait for him. He can't make me do that! Come along, Simmonds." "Wait a minute," I broke in, as the outer door opened. "Perhaps that's Godfrey, now." And so it proved. He came in accompanied by a man whom I knew to be Arthur Shearrow, chief counsel for the Record. Godfrey nodded all around.
Shearrow has his car below, and I think we would better drive around to some safe-deposit box with this plunder." It was perhaps ten days afterwards that Godfrey dropped in to see me one evening. I was just back from a week on Cape Cod, which had done me a world of good; and, I need hardly say, was glad to see him. "You're looking normal again," he said, surveying me, as he sat down.
"I think you know Mr. Shearrow," he said, placing on my desk a small leather bag he was carrying. "This is Mr. Lester, Mr. Shearrow," he added, and we shook hands. "The object of this conference, Lester," he concluded, "is to straighten out certain matters connected with the Michaelovitch diamonds and incidentally to give the Record the biggest scoop it has had for months."
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