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Updated: May 7, 2025
The wounded seaman was breathing his last when they reached his side. They could not have prolonged his life had they remained with him. Jack Cockrell stroked his damp forehead and murmured: "Farewell to ye, Jesse Strawn. Any message before you slip your cable?" There was a faint whisper of: "Scuppered, lad! Take warnin' and avast this cruel piratin' or you'll get it.
At 5:15 he was entirely ready for D. A. Sanderson, Captain Strawn and their party of indignant and unwilling guests.... "Oh, Mr. Dundee!" Carolyn Drake squealed. "You're not going to make us play that awful 'death hand' again, are you?" They were all crowding about him the men and women who had been Nita Selim's guests at her last bridge and cocktail party....
There were two windows in the north wall of the room, looking out upon the yew-hedged driveway, and between them stood a cabinet of numerous big and little drawers. Not until he had taken in the general aspect of the room did Dundee look at the thing over which Captain Strawn and the coroner were bending the body of Dexter Sprague.
There's hard cases amongst 'em that will begin shooting at us presently. Down the rope ye go, Jack. I'll stand by and give 'em another dose of poor Jesse Strawn." Over the rail flew the stouter phantom of the two and slid like a white streak, fetching up in the boat with a most earthly and substantial thump.
Tearing the sheet from the notebook, he passed it to Captain Strawn, who read it, frowning, and then nodded. "Doc Price has done all he can here," Strawn whispered huskily. "Wants to know if you'd like to speak to him before he takes the body to the morgue."
Tell him that I said that I am going to make the whole thieving pack of you eat out of my hand before I let up on you. And now, for God's sake, go!" He whirled and went back to the house with long strides. He flung wide the door, and as he came swiftly to the fireplace, his face still white and hard, he thrust out his hand to Helga Strawn, grasping hers as though it had been a man's.
Sooner or later, when he believes police vigilance has been relaxed, he'll go prowling about that house, and to Captain Strawn, who doesn't take the slightest stock in my theory, will go credit for the arrest.... Unless " Dundee reached for a telegraph form and again scanned the pencilled message.
"I certainly will!" the red-haired girl cried defiantly. "What I can't see is why Tracey and Lois and Dex Mr. Sprague didn't think of it, too. It's as plain as " "Yes, as the nose on my face," Dundee cut in grimly, but with a glance at Strawn. "Just stick to the facts, however, Miss Raymond, and maybe we can all agree with you." "Well, when Mr.
He reached into a pigeon-hole whose contents a thick packet of unused envelopes had not been disturbed by Strawn, and was about to remove an envelope in which to place the all-important checkbook, when he noticed something slightly peculiar. An envelope in the middle of the packet looked rather thicker than an empty case should.... But it was not empty.
It was odd, Dundee thought, that it was not the swollen jaw she chose to cover. Mrs. Dunlap sprang to her feet and hurried across the room. "Don't mind, Lydia, please. You must not be so sensitive," she said gently, and even more gently pulled down the concealing apron.... "Good God!" Dundee breathed, and Strawn nodded his understanding of the younger man's horror.
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