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He's got a lump on his head as big as a billiard-ball. Thinks he hit it against a branch. And my lady have locked herself in her room and refused to see anybody." "Go and look at our patient," Enid commanded. Williams disappeared, to return presently with the information that Van Sneck was still fast asleep and lying very peacefully. "Looks like waiting till morning, it do," he said.
I don't know where Henson learnt the trick, but I do know that I was a fool not to think of it. You see, the hall light being dropped through from the floor above was on another circuit. If it hadn't been we should have had our trouble with Van Sneck for nothing." "He would have died?" David asked. The two doctors nodded significantly. "What a poisonous scoundrel he is!" David cried.
Now note where Henson's diabolical cunning comes in. The same night Van Sneck is found half murdered in Mr. Steel's house, and in his pocket is the receipt for the very cigar-case that Mr. Steel claimed as his own property." "Very awkward for Steel," Rawlins said, thoughtfully. "Of course it was. And why was it done? So that we should be forced to come forward and exonerate Mr. Steel from blame.
I got Van Sneck away without Henson having the slightest suspicion that he was there, and I had the satisfaction of giving Henson a smashing blow without his seeing me." "Sounds like conjuring," Bell said, behind his cigar. "Explain yourself." David went carefully into details. He told the story of Prince Rupert's ring to a listener who followed him with the most flattering attention.
"So as to have the fragrance with you all the time," he said. Van Sneck obeyed quietly, remarking that the scent was very pungent. The Dutchman was restless and ill at ease; he seemed to be dissatisfied with himself he had the air of a man who has set out with two or three extremely important matters of business and who has completely forgotten what one of them is.
"Ask Mr. Marley in here." Marley came smilingly, yet mysterious. He evinced no surprise at the sight of Van Sneck. He was, doubtless, aware of the success of the operation on the latter. He particularly desired to know where Mr. Reginald Henson was to be found. "This is a queer place to look for him," said Steel. "But he was here yesterday," Marley protested. "He had an accident."
"All the same, if you have some patent way of getting at the facts I shall be only too glad to spare my poor flowers. Their training has been a labour of love with me." Bell smoked on quietly for some time. He toyed with the red blossoms which had so stimulated Van Sneck's recollection, then tossed a spray over to Van Sneck and suggested that the latter should put it in his button-hole.
Sooner or later, of course, I should have suggested to Mr. Steel to try and identify the man, but " "My dear Enid, what on earth are you talking about?" "Nonsense," Enid said, in some confusion. "Things you don't understand at present, and things you are not going to understand just yet. I read in the papers that the man was quite a stranger to Mr. Steel. But are you certain that it is Van Sneck?"
Perhaps there were three copies, but I forget now. Van Sneck raved over the ring; it might have been a mine of gold for the fuss he made over it." Littimer asked no further questions. But from the glance he gave first to Chris and then to his son the girl could see that he was satisfied. He knew at last that he had done his son a grave injustice he knew the truth.
"I 'm some fain to gang back to the fishin', my lord," said Malcolm. "This is ower easy a life for me. The deil wins in for the liftin' o' the sneck. But a' that 's naither here nor there, I ken, sae lang's ye want me oot o' the hoose, my lord." "Who told you I wanted you out of the house? By Jove! I should have made shorter work of it. What put that in your head? Why should I?"
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