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Hooks come in a great variety of shapes and models but there are none better than the standard "Sproat." It is the general favourite of fishermen everywhere, although of course the other leading models, Carlisle, Limerick, Pennell, Aberdeen, Sneck and a number of others all have their friends. A great many fishermen make the mistake of using hooks that are too large.
You did so, and immediately the wires fired all over the circuit and plunged us in darkness. But the hall light remained sound, and Van Sneck was saved. If it is any consolation to you, he will be as sensible as any of us to-morrow." "Hensen had risen to his feet, pale and trembling, He protested, but it was all in vain. Bell approached the china wall-plug and pointed to it.
"Excuse me. He did nothing of the kind." Chris looked up eagerly. "Oh," she cried, "have you more to tell me, then?" "Nothing authentic," Rawlins said; "merely surmise. Van Sneck is going to recover. If he does it will be hard for Henson, who ought to get away with his plunder at once. Why doesn't he go and blackmail Lord Littimer and sell him the ring and clear out of the country?
The thing was destroyed by accident by the police when they raided Van Sneck's lodgings years ago." "Van Sneck told me that he had actually seen the picture in Brighton." Henson chuckled. The noise was intended to convey amused contempt, and it had that effect, so far as Littimer was concerned. It was well for Henson that the latter could not see the strained anxiety of his face.
We can arrest him on half-a-dozen charges when we please. We can have you arrested any time on a charge of conspiracy over those pictures " "Of which I am innocent; I swear it," Van Sneck said, solemnly. "Those two Rembrandts they fell into my hands by what you call a slice of good luck. I am working hand in glove with Henson at the time, and show him them. I suggest Lord Littimer as a purchaser.
"Well, upon my word, I am," Rawlins confessed. "But I don't quite see why " "Please let me finish," Chris went on, excitedly. "Reginald Henson is driven back on his last trenches. He has to get the ring for Lord Littimer. He takes out the ring after all these years, never dreaming that Van Sneck would dare to play such a trick upon him, and finds out the forgery.
I therefore, on the morning of the business, invited three of the council to take their breakfast with me, for the ostensible purpose of going in a body to the council chamber to choose the provost delegate; but when we were at breakfast, John Snakers, my lad in the shop, by my suggestion, warily got a bale of broad cloth so tumbled, as it were by accident, at the door, that it could not be opened; for it bent the key in such a manner in the lock, and crooket the sneck, that without a smith there was no egress, and sorrow a smith was to be had.
Then I what you call pump Merritt, and he tells me all about the supposed robbery at Amsterdam and what was found in the portmanteau of good Dr. Bell yonder. Then I go to Henson and tell him what I find out, and he laughs. Mind you, that was after I came here from Paris on business for Henson." "About the time you bought that diamond-mounted cigar-case?" David asked, quietly. Van Sneck nodded.
I only know that I threw it over my shoulder, and that it dropped into the thick moss that lies on the top of all the pots. I laughed to myself as it fell, and I rejoiced to see that Henson knew nothing of it." "And it is still here?" Bell demanded. Van Sneck nodded solemnly. "I swear it," he said. "Prince Rupert's ring is in this conservatory."
Unless I am greatly mistaken, Van Sneck will lay his had upon the ring for us without so much as the sacrifice of a blossom." "I don't fancy so," Van Sneck replied. "I can't remember." "Well, you are going to," Bell said, cheerfully. "Did you ever hear of artificial memory?" "The sort of thing you get in law courts and political speeches?" David suggested.
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