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Updated: June 5, 2025
Jeekes absently, but without replying to the young man's question. "Why," asked Bruce boldly, "did old H.P. make such a mystery about these letters on the slatey-blue paper, Mr. Jeekes?" The secretary wrinkled up his thin lips and sharp nose into a cunning smile. "When you get to be my age, young Wright," he made answer, "you will understand that every man has a private side to his life.
She made a little nervous gesture. "After he ... did it," she went on, "I found this letter on his desk. It came to him from Holland. I mean to see the people who wrote it and discover if they can throw any light on ... on ... the affair ..." She had taken from her muff a letter, folded in four, written on paper of a curious dark slatey-blue colour. "Won't you show me the letter?"
Mary Trevert pulled out the drawers and opened the cupboards. Two of the drawers were entirely empty and one of the cupboards contained nothing but a stack of cigar boxes. One drawer held various papers appertaining to the house. There was no sign of any letter written on the slatey-blue paper. The boy looked very hard at Mary.
Robin thrust one hand into his right-hand pocket to get his pipe, his other hand into his left-hand pocket to find his pouch. His left hand came into contact with a little ball of paper. He drew it out. It was the little ball of slatey-blue paper he had found on the floor of the library beside Hartley Parrish's dead body. Horace Trevert walked abruptly into Mary's Chinese boudoir.
In order, therefore, to gain his confidence, he willingly satisfied the other's curiosity regarding his visit to Harkings hoping thereby to extract some information as to the whereabouts of the letter on the slatey-blue paper. "There was no letter of this description on the desk, you say, when you and Miss Trevert looked?" asked Jeekes when Bruce had finished his story.
His eyes wandered from the desk to the window and from the window to the corpse. Then he noticed on the carpet between the dead body and the desk a little ball of slatey-blue paper. He bent down and picked it up. He had begun to unroll it when the library door was flung open. Robin thrust the scrap of paper in his pocket and turned to face the door. The library door opened.
"As he practically admitted to me, that he had come for a letter written on slatey-blue official-looking paper." The girl held up the letter from Rotterdam. "All this," the girl continued, "made me think that this letter must have had something to do with Hartley's death ..." "Surely an additional reason for giving it to the police!..." Mary Trevert set her mouth in an obstinate line.
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