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But I'm sure we're on the track of the men who damaged my airship, as well as those who know something of the mystery of Mr. Nestor." "I agree with you," said Jackson. "Of course there's a possibility that the same peculiar metal you used in your silencer case may have been used in some other machine shop, and these files may have come from there, and have been employed in perfectly regular work.
"Judge Marshall, how many keys are there to the cupboard drawer in which your gun and silencer were kept?" "Just one. I have it with me," the old man answered wearily. "Then when Hinson, your butler, looked for them, he found the drawer unlocked?" "He did. I confess to almost criminal negligence "
I'm sorry, Harper," he said hastily, cutting into the reporter's questions. "Nothing new! You may say that the police have thrown out a dragnet " and he grinned at the trite phrase " for the gunman who killed Mrs. Selim, and will offer a reward for the recovery of the weapon a Colt's .32 equipped with a Maxim silencer.... Come along, George, and I'll explain just what Mrs.
At last the day came when the big government test was to be made. Tom had completed his Air Scout and had refined it to a point where even his critical judgment was satisfied. All that remained now was to give Mr. Terrill a chance to see how silently the big craft could fly, and to this end a flight was arranged. Tom had put the silencer on a larger machine than the one he and Jackson had used.
He closed the book and replaced it in the bookcase, careless of fingerprints, for he was sure the murderer had been too clever to leave any behind him in that room or upon the gun and silencer either, for that matter. Interestedly, Dundee surveyed the scene of his attempted murder.
We can guess that he stowed gun, silencer and electro-magnet in a pocket of his car. At any rate, he came back noisily enough a little later, to offer Lydia a job as nurse in his home. Doubtless he assured himself that she knew nothing, or poor Lydia would have gone the way of her mistress and Sprague." "Was Sprague ?" Strawn began.
Even the most perfect electric motor has a sort of hum which can be detected when one is close to it. But at a little distance a great dynamo in operation appears to be silence itself. "I can go this one better, though," said Tom as he sailed along in the night. "I see where I've made a few mistakes in the baffle plate of the silencer. I'll correct that and "
'The Dervish rush took place later. 'So I laid her in these ruts. That was where she must 'ave scraped her silencer a bit. Then they turned sharp right the ruts did and then she stopped bonnet-high in a manure-heap, sir; but I'll swear it was all of a one in three gradient. I think it was a barnyard. We waited there, said Leggatt. 'But not for long, said Pyecroft.
And, oh, yes, they've picked up a young girl at the Turner woman's place. And we've got one real clue for once!" The speaker's expression was suddenly triumphant. He opened a drawer of the desk, and took out Garson's pistol, to which the silencer was still attached. "You never saw a gun like that before, eh?" he exclaimed. Demarest admitted the fact after a curious examination.
But Dave's hand, held up, acted as a silencer. Dick and Miss Dodge were carried to a neighboring drug store for attention. Now the firemen tried to run up ladders to the studio floor, with a view to fighting the flames by turning the stream on through the windows. Flames drove them back.
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