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He evoked her old pride. She drew herself up with dignity, and called the children away. He wondered if he could bear a repetition of that degradation. It bled him of his courage and self-respect. In the morning Beatrice was disturbed by the sharp sneck of the hall door. Immediately awake, she heard his quick, firm step hastening down the gravel path.
What a funny business it is! Van Sneck gets nearly done to death under this roof, and he comes back here to be cured again." David yawned sleepily as he rose. "Well, I've had enough of it for to-night," he said. "I'm dog-tried, and I must confess to feeling sick of the Hensons and Littimers, and all their works." "Including their friend, Miss Ruth Gates?" Bell said, slily.
Bell echoed, blankly. "What do you mean by that?" "He has disappeared from the hospital at Brighton to-day. Mr. Steel thinks they were extra busy, or something of that kind. Anyway, Van Sneck got up and dressed himself and left the hospital without being observed. It seems extraordinary to me." "And yet quite possible," Bell said, thoughtfully.
"And you get an answer?" David asked. "Sir, I do. You said you would see me the same night. It was a forgery?" "It was. Henson had anticipated something like that. I know all about the forgery, how my notepaper was procured, and when the forgery was written. But that has very little to do with the story now. Please go on." Van Sneck paused before he proceeded. "I am not quite sober," he said.
"We will come to that presently. Did you ever see Prince Rupert's ring?" "Well, I did. It was in Amsterdam again, about a year later than the time I mentioned just now. Henson brought the real ring for Van Sneck to copy. Van Sneck went into raptures over it. He said he had never seen anything of the kind so beautiful. He made a copy of the ring, which he handed back with the original to Henson."
"And there's one thing to be observed," she added, " that that door is the only one in all the passage that has a sneck, as they call it." "What is a sneck?" asked his lordship, who was not much of a scholar in his country's tongue. "What we call a latch in England, my lord. I took pains to learn the Scotch correctly, and I've repeated it to your lordship, word for word."
I have frequently been hard up for five pounds. Hence the fact that I sold the cigar-case at Moreton Wells." "Well, the ground is clear so far," said Chris. "Do you know Van Sneck?" "I know Van Sneck very well," Rawlins said, without hesitation. "A wonderfully clever man." "And a great scoundrel, I presume?" "Well, on the whole, I should say not. Weak, rather than wicked.
"That remark does not suggest your usual acumen. The American was preparing the ground for Van Sneck to purchase with a view to a subsequent exchange. You have not fully grasped the vileness of this plot yet. I went to Lockhart's and succeeded in discovering that the purchaser of the returned case was a tall American, quite of the pattern I expected.
Steel and signed with his initials, and saying in effect that he was at home every night and would see Van Sneck about twelve or some time like that. He was merely to knock quietly, as the household would be in bed, and Mr. Steel would let him in." "And Mr. Steel never wrote that letter at all?" "No; for the simple reason that he never had Van Sneck's note." "Which Henson intercepted, of course.
There was a soft rustling sound at the window as he spoke, and a slow step was heard, which seemed to drag along towards the door, then a fumbling at the sneck, the handle lifted, and the door opened slowly inwards, as if reluctant to reveal its secret.
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