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Updated: June 7, 2025
"I understand you wouldn't let Simmonds telephone for me last night?" queried Godfrey. "That's right it wasn't none of your business." "Perhaps not. And yet, if I had been there, the cleverest thief in Paris, if not in the world, would be safe behind those chrome-nickle steel bars at the Twenty-third Street station, instead of at liberty to go ahead and rob somebody else."
Indeed, I rather hung back, burying myself in the crowds on the sidewalk, for fear that Armand might chance to glance around and see me in pursuit. I saw that Godfrey and Simmonds had the same fear, for the cab in which they were drew up at the curb and waited there until the van had got some distance ahead. At Sixteenth Street, it turned westward again, and then northward into Seventh Avenue.
"So Silva was only taking what belonged to him, eh?" and Godfrey laughed. "Well, I hope you'll get him, Simmonds." It was at this moment that Dr. Hinman entered, a curious, repressed excitement in his face, and his eyes shining strangely. "How is she, doctor?" Godfrey asked. "She'll be all right in the morning.
Godfrey joined me at the door as I was leaving, and we went down the steps together. "I was glad to hear Simmonds confess that the police are up a tree," he said. "Of course, Grady is trying to sneak out of it, and blame some one else for the failure but I'll see that he doesn't succeed. I'll see, anyway, that Simmonds gets a square deal he's an old friend of mine, you know."
"Simmonds and I were constantly out after tigers, and the people in all the villages within twenty miles knew that we were always ready to pay for early information. This tiger had been doing great damage, and had carried off about thirty men, women, and children.
Thompson, saying that in consequence of the rumors which were current in the town he should be glad to learn from Ned whether there was any foundation for them, and would therefore be obliged if he would call at eight o'clock that evening. His colleague, Mr. Simmonds, would be present. Ned gave an exclamation of disgust as he threw down the note. "Is there any answer, sir?" the servant asked.
Indeed, so puzzling and contradictory were they that he soon fell asleep. When he rose at seven o'clock next morning the said problems had vanished. They must have been part and parcel with the glamor of a June night, and a starlit sky, and the blue depths of the sea and of a girl's eyes, for the wizard sun had dispelled them long ere he awoke. But he did not telegraph to Simmonds.
I see you have made a special study and you've mentioned very interesting facts; but you must see that they are wide of the mark painfully wide of the mark I must be thinking of turning in; have to be up at six, worse luck, to catch a train. Good-night, Mr. Simmonds! Good-night to you, sir good-night!"
Is Miss Vaughan in here?" and when Godfrey nodded, he opened the door and closed it softly behind him. "Open!" repeated Godfrey, staring at me. "Open! Then that is the way Silva went!" "Yes, yes," I agreed. "He had the key. It was he who let me out." "And locked the gate after you?" "Yes I heard the key turn." Without a word, Godfrey hurried down the stairs. At the foot we met Simmonds.
What a brilliant idea! What courage and coolness in the execution! What awfully bad luck that old Rabbits had come by just at the wrong moment! They took his impending punishment even more cheerfully than he did himself, as our friends generally do, and promised to go in a body and see the operation. One, indeed, Simmonds, lamented over his sad fate, and sang by way of a dirge
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