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"I think I'll ask Donovan what Singa Phut said when he was arrested and charged with murdering his partner," said the colonel to himself. "There's an end I haven't developed very much. And I would like to ask that East Indian something about that queer watch." Donovan was at headquarters, it being his night "on," and he welcomed the detective as some one with whom he might hold converse.
Said it was an ancient timepiece, which he had owned for many years, and as it could have no connection with the crime they let him take it." "Oh, well, I suppose that was all right. No, Singa Phut didn't have a thing to do with the killing, I'm positive of that." "And his alibi is perfect," said the colonel. "Well, I guess you've told me all I want to know.
I can't understand what makes it go, unless some one got in and wound it and they wouldn't do that." "Whose watch is it?" asked Thong. "It belongs to Singa Phut." "Singa Phut!" ejaculated Carroll. "Crimps, what a name! Who belongs to it?" "Singa Phut is an East Indian," explained Darcy. "He has a curio store down on Water Street.
The colonel's theory, that some fellow countryman had supplied the East Indian means of escaping the electric chair, was generally accepted. And that Singa Phut was guilty of having killed his partner in a sudden fit of passion following one of their frequent quarrels was also believed by those who cared to exercise any thought in the matter.
Then he said: "If I could find out why Singa Phut used this watch I'd be in a better position to answer," and from the package the detective took the timepiece which he had kept after Donovan had given it to him to examine. "You mean you're not sure about Darcy?" "Well, I thought I was. At first I had my doubts.
And is there any truth in the newspaper story about the same watch that was found in Mrs. Darcy's hand being found in the hand of the dead man?" "Yes, that part's true enough, but that's all there is to it. It's just one of them coincidences like. Singa Phut got back his watch after the prosecutor decided he didn't need it for evidence.
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