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Yet had I not seen them together in Kensington Gardens? "I don't know whether he is known to you as Suzor," I said. Then I described him as accurately as I could. But the woman shook her head. For the first time she now lied to me. With my own eyes I had seen the man approach her and the girl, and after they had greeted each other, she had risen and left the girl alone with him.
Do you happen to know him?" I gritted my teeth, and replied in the affirmative. "A very charming man," the valet declared. "He was always very good to the servants. I used to look after him when he visited us here in Amsterdam." "Did you ever meet a friend of his a Frenchman named Suzor?" I asked. "Yes, once. When we stayed with Mr. De Gex at Florence. He was a fellow guest with my master."
He urged me at the same time to tell nobody that he had seen me, or that he had warned me against you not even my mother." "All that is in no way surprising," I remarked, "for I happen to know that Monsieur Suzor and the doctor are on terms of closest friendship a partnership for evil." "How?"
When, shortly afterwards, I left, I went straight across Hammersmith Bridge and found that Harry Hambledon had just returned from his office. We sat together at table, whereupon I told him one or two facts I had discovered, and urged him to cross to Paris with me next day. "You see, you can watch for you will be a perfect stranger to Suzor. I will bear the expense.
I did my level best to obtain more information concerning the Italian doctor and the man De Gex, but the woman could tell me absolutely nothing. She was concealing nothing from me that I knew. It was only when I mentioned the French banker, Monsieur Suzor, that she started and became visibly perturbed. "I have no knowledge of the gentleman," she declared.
Such I judged to be the case between Gaston Suzor and Gabrielle Tennison. At first the girl sat inert with downcast eyes listening to the man. But suddenly she raised her hands in quick protest again, and apparently became resentful even angry. Then when he spoke some reassuring words she became calmer.
The whole amazing facts, my meeting with Suzor in the express between York and King's Cross, the trap set for me at Stretton Street, and my astounding adventures afterwards, all flashed through my mind. Oswald De Gex was a most unscrupulous person who had climbed to fame and fortune over the ruined homes and bodies of his victims.
With Gabrielle I had been a fellow-victim of a deeply laid and most foul plot. That I had been purposely marked down with the aid of De Gex's accomplice and sycophant, Gaston Suzor, was made more than plain as I pursued my inquiries.
It was from Hambledon, saying that De Gex had left for Nîmes and Suzor was returning to Paris, therefore he would follow the latter. Having installed ourselves in the hotel, Rivero went to the concierge, and taking him into his confidence over a twenty-franc note, told him that he was very anxious to know whether a gentleman named Rabel had arrived at the Luxembourg.
The present countess is the daughter of the Marquis Avellanosa of Algeciras, and they were a most devoted pair. She now lives in Segovia in comparative seclusion. The count's untimely end was a great loss to Spain." It was news to me that Oswald De Gex was in Madrid with his agent Suzor in connexion with the new railway scheme.
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