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The evening papers were glaring with the news from Cordova by the time the two friends were once more alone in Ashton-Kirk's library. Pendleton seemed to be pondering. "I say," said he, at last, "was it Morris or Spatola who remained at Hume's the night of the murder?" "I spoke to Spatola about that," answered Ashton-Kirk.
Spatola seemed surprised at this apparent warmth; he looked at Ashton-Kirk questioningly. "And, with all their scholarship, the Germans are so practical," went on the latter. "Only the other day I came upon a booklet published in Leipzig that dealt with the difficulty a composer sometimes encounters in getting the notes on paper when a melody sweeps through his brain.
"You mean," said the superintendent with interest, "that you've got something new on Spatola and perhaps on Morris and the girl!" "I mean," answered Ashton-Kirk, "that I hope to place the murderers of the numismatist Hume in your hands in a few days whoever they may be." Weagle waved his hand. "That's all we want," said he with a laugh. "Give us the right ones and we'll make no complaint.
Both of us had had too many proofs of it to doubt, but there was always the chance of the unlucky blow early in the battle which might mean defeat where victory seemed the only thing possible. I believed that Jerry would win. I think that I actually believed him to be invulnerable. I knew that Flynn was confident, and that Sagorski, Spatola and O'Halloran had put their money on him.
"What Italian fellow do you refer to?" "He lifs close by me, a few doors away. His name is Spatola, und he plays the violin the gurb-stones beside." "What time was it that you saw him?" "Maybe elefen o'clock. I am not sure. But it was just a little while before I got me the rush of customers from the theaters." "Did you notice his manner? Was there anything unusual in his looks?"
Kirk is confident of Locke; I think he'd even go so far as to give him into custody, if he had the tangible proofs that the police require. "But he lacks enthusiasm in the matter of the confederate. To my mind, it's Spatola or Morris, or both. Both bore Hume no good will.
At the fourth floor she pushed open a door and showed them into a long loft-like room with high ceiling and mansard windows. There came a squawking and fluttering from somewhere above as they entered. "Them's the cockatoos," said the landlady. "They miss Mr. Spatola very much.
But if Spatola were the man who remained, it would have been different. Do the papers not say that he lives in a garret, or loft, in the same block? How easy it would have been for him to pass out upon the roof of 478 after the crime and then over the housetops of the block until he came to a scuttle which perhaps led into his very attic?" "That," said Ashton-Kirk, "is very well conceived.
If he carried his violin in a case, there was no need of his putting it under his coat. And, another thing, a violin case is of such size as to prevent its being so carried, isn't it?" Fuller nodded. "I think that's very good," said he. "It would have been a very easy thing for the Standard's man to have made a few inquiries as to whether Spatola used a violin case or no.
But we could see that Jerry was stubborn, for when Flynn pleaded with him he shook his head. Spatola and the negro massaged him furiously, adding their anxious pleas to Flynn's, but Jerry would not listen. He was taking the foul air in huge gasps, his eyes closed, fighting for recuperation.
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