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"You don't mean to say it was Van Sneck?" Rawlins cried. Chris nodded gravely. Rawlins looked like a man who was groping about in a sudden dazzle of blinding light. "I begin to understand," he muttered. "The scoundrel!" "After that I will resume," Chris said. "You must understand that Mr. Steel was a stranger to us.
The English, indeed, when he thought of it with its phrase a mere borrowing from the Gaelic, seemed an affectation. No, it must be in the natural tongue his tidings should be told. He would rap at the door hurriedly, lift the sneck before any response came, go in with his bonnet in his hand, and say "Tha bean Lecknamban air falbh" with a great simplicity.
I felt his knife between my shoulders, then a stunning blow on the head, and till I woke here to-day I cannot recollect a single thing." Van Sneck paused and wiped his face, wet with the horror of the recollection. David Steel gave Bell a significant glance, and the latter nodded. "Was the thing that Henson wanted a ring?" Steel asked, quietly. Van Sneck looked up with some signs of confusion.
"My bachelor bedroom is always ready, Bell." "Thanks. I don't fancy you need be under any apprehension that anybody has spirited Van Sneck away. In the first place Henson, who seems to have discovered what happened, is in a terrible state about it. He wanted very badly to remain at Littimer, but when he heard that Van Sneck had left the hospital he came down here; in fact, we travelled together.
You came here to stifle the light at the very moment when we were operating on Van Sneck. You thought that all the lights on the floor would be on the same circuit; you have been here before." "Are you mad?" Henson gasped. "When have I been here before " "The night that you lured Van Sneck here by a forged letter and left him for dead." Henson gasped, his lips moved, but no words came from them.
"Of course it was," Bell replied. "Henson found out that Van Sneck was here, as he was certain to do sooner or later. He comes here to make inquiries and finds you; also he comes to spy out the land. Now, without being much of a gambler, I'm willing to stake a large sum that he introduced the subject of your old trouble?" "He invariably did that," Heritage admitted. "Naturally.
The same day Henson's tool, Van Sneck, purchased a similar case from Walen's a case really procured for your approval and later on in the day the case passed from Van Sneck to Henson, who dexterously changed the cases." "Complex," Rawlins muttered. "But I begin to see what is coming." "The cases were changed, and the one from Walen's in due course became Mr. Steel's.
A moment later and he was in the street, dazed, confused, and baffled, and with the conviction strong upon him that he had failed in his great coup. Van Sneck would be sensible to-morrow he would speak. And then But he dared not think of that at present. He wanted all his nerve and courage now.
David carefully scooped up all the loose moss from the pot and laid it on the study table. Then he shook the stuff out, and something glittering lay on the table a heavy ring of the most exquisite and cunning workmanship, with a large gem in the centre, flanked by black pearls on either side. Van Sneck took it in his fingers lovingly. "Here you are," he said. "Ach, the beauty!
Of course he said nothing whatever about Van Sneck, whom he is supposed to know nothing about, but I could see that he was terribly disturbed. The worst of it is that Cross was going to get me to operate on Van Sneck; and Heritage, who seems wonderfully better, was going to assist." "Is your unfortunate friend up to that kind of thing now?" David asked. "I fancy so.
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