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Updated: May 25, 2025
"Good God!" Smith sprang upright and turned with an extraordinary expression to Inspector Weymouth. "You do not know Sir Lionel Barton by sight?" he rapped. "No," began Weymouth, "but " "This is not Sir Lionel. This is Strozza, the secretary." "What!" shouted Weymouth. "Where is the other the Chinaman quick!" cried Smith.
Smith," he said. "Strozza, knowing Sir Lionel to be absent, locked himself in here to rifle the mummy case, for Croxted, entering by way of the window, found the key on the inside. Strozza didn't know that the Chinaman was hidden in the conservatory " "And Kwee did not dare to show himself, because he too was there for some mysterious reason of his own," interrupted Smith.
What killed the Chinaman?" "Both Miss Edmonds and Croxted found the study door locked from the inside. What killed Strozza?" retorted Smith. "You will have noted," continued the Inspector, "that the secretary is wearing Sir Lionel's dressing-gown.
"Prove, then, that you really wish to leave this man's service. Tell me what killed Strozza and the Chinaman," I said. She shrugged her shoulders. "I do not know that. But if you will carry me off" she clutched me nervously "so that I am helpless, lock me up so that I cannot escape, beat me, if you like, I will tell you all I do know. While he is my master I will never betray him.
Among letter-writers, Aretino unfortunately must be named as the first who has fully painted in words the splendid effect of light and shadow in an Italian sunset. We sometimes find the feeling of the poets, also, attaching itself with tenderness to graceful scenes of country life. Tito Strozza, about the year 1480, describes in a Latin elegy the dwelling of his mistress.
He has a Bedouin groom, a Chinese body-servant, and Heaven only knows what other strange people!" "Chinese!" "Yes, I saw him; a squinting Cantonese he calls Kwee. I don't like him. Also, there is a secretary known as Strozza, who has an unpleasant face. He is a fine linguist, I understand, and is engaged upon the Spanish notes for Barton's forthcoming book on the Mayapan temples.
We further obtain from Lucrezia Borgia a certain amount of indirect evidence, in so far as certain passages in the poems of Ercole Strozza may be the echo of expressions which she as Duchess of Ferrara may easily have permitted herself to use.
The scent of those infernal flowers must partially have drowned it, too. Poor, misguided Strozza inhaled the stuff, capsized the case in his fall, and all the gas " "Went pouring under the conservatory door, and down the steps, where Kwee was crouching. Croxted's breaking the window created sufficient draught to disperse what little remained. It will have settled on the floor now.
He fixed his gaze upon the sarcophagus. Smith stared at him in surprise. "What do you mean, Sir Lionel?" The famous traveler continued to look towards the sarcophagus with something in his blue eyes that might have been dread. "I received a wire from Professor Rembold to-night," he continued. "You were correct in supposing that no one but Strozza knew of my absence.
I nodded; and Smith bent over the sarcophagus, curiously examining the garish paintings with which it was decorated inside and out. It lay sideways upon the floor, and seizing it by its edge, he turned it over. "Heavy," he muttered; "but Strozza must have capsized it as he fell. He would not have laid it on its side to remove the lid. Hallo!"
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