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Updated: May 14, 2025
The treasure, of course, was given in the first place to Thorndyke, but transferred by him to my wife on the pretence that but for my suggestion of shell-dust the robber would never have been traced. Which is, on the face of it, preposterous. Thorndyke stood looking up and down the platform with anxiety that increased as the time drew near for the departure of the train.
When the familiar sounds began again, they would troop once more down the steps and fall asleep in the cellar, until peace was restored. On one occasion, following his men after he had seen them all safely down, a piece of high explosive shell-dust bounced from the wall, and embedded itself in the skin of his temple.
And after passing that gap he came to a small grey church, standing bare to the winds upon its tiny plateau. A pathway of white shell-dust led from the door of the church to the little wooden gate. As he came level with the gate a collie dog barked at him from behind it. The rider looked at the dog, which was very grey about the muzzle. He noticed its marking, and stopped his horse altogether.
This was the letter which Mark read, while the northeast wind roared through the boughs overhead, driving the gritty shell-dust in his face, and making the thin paper in his fingers flap with its vicious jerks: 'Talipot Bungalow, Newera Ellia, Ceylon. 'MY DEAR MARK, I am not going to reproach you for your long silence, as I dare say you waited for me to write first.
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