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I shall go straight from this office to that of the District Attorney, and lay the whole of the facts before him. "Does your lordship wish to dispense with my services?" broke in Schmidt, speaking without flurry or heat. The angry Earl choked, but remained silent, and the lawyer kept on in the same even tone: "May I suggest, Mr. Steingall, that you and Mr. Curtis and Mr.
"I thought I saw a light in my wife's rooms," he said. "As you mention it, so did I," agreed Devar. "I hope she is not awaiting my return?" "Perhaps she is anxious about you?" "But why?" "Women are given that way. She knows you went out with Steingall, and he is a dangerous character." "Is Mrs. Curtis staying in the Plaza?" asked the puzzled McCulloch. "Yes."
Krantz?" inquired Hermione, smiling, for it was a bizarre experience to find herself interested in all sorts and conditions of people whom she had never heard of. "Mr. Krantz is the reception clerk at the Central Hotel," was the answer, which conveyed fuller information to other ears than the girl's. Then Steingall glanced at his watch.
As a matter of fact, now, I personally know two such occasions when I was of the party; and devilish uncomfortable it was too." "What happened?" said Steingall. "Why, there is no story to it particularly. Once a mistake had been made and the other time the real thief was detected by accident a year later. In both cases only one or two of us knew what had happened."
Steingall had hoped that Voles would walk quietly into the chart-room, and, seeing the folly of resistance, yield to the law without a struggle. Perhaps, under other conditions, he might have done so. It was the coming of Fowle that had complicated matters. The strategic position was simple enough. Voles had the whole of the after-deck to himself.
Had Curtis written that he hailed from Lhassa, his legal domicile would have lost its occult extravagance save to the discriminating few. The mere mention of Pekin now brought back to Curtis's mind the last time he had written the word, and, by association of ideas, the queer way in which Steingall had twice alluded to the Plaza Hotel. He said nothing of this to Devar.
Then the police captain, after waiting for Steingall to take the lead, nudged his silent colleague, and said gruffly: "This thing cannot be gone into here. Those who can bring forward testimony of any value ought to come with Mr. Steingall and myself to the precinct station-house."
"It's either you or your ghost, sir," he said, "and if it's your ghost you must have been badly treated in the next world." A roundsman was entering headquarters at the moment, and gave the quartette a sharp glance. "Here, Parker," said Steingall, "tell this man my name." The policeman came up, looked at the detective, and laughed. "This is Mr.
"No, I don't think I would recognize French if I heard it American is good enough for me but there was no argument, nothing in the shape of a quarrel. The Englishman spoke twice, and the other fellar three times." "Mr. Curtis is an American," Steingall explained.
So he drew the impatient nobleman into a quiet corner of the restaurant, and extracted from his unwilling lips certain details as to Count Vassilan and the marriage project which had not been forthcoming before. Krantz seized the opportunity to call up Steingall on the telephone and told him something, not all, of what had occurred.
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