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"They are far more appreciative than the occasion warrants," I answered. "But to return to this question: how will this day week suit you?" "It will suit me," Thorndyke answered, with a glance at his junior. "And me too," said the latter; "so, if it will do for the Bellinghams, we will consider it settled; but if they can't come, you must fix another night."
"Those will be your properties in the closet, then?" Raggerton turned pale, but continued to bluster. "Do I understand that you have dared to break into my private closet?" he demanded. "I have inspected it," replied Thorndyke, "and I may remark that it is useless to wrench at that key, because I have hampered the lock." "The devil you have!" shouted Raggerton.
We did the only thing we could, namely, inquired at all the banks and agents here and at all the principal firms in Madras and Calcutta to ask if they had in their possession any property belonging to the late Colonel Thorndyke." "You see, we did not know," Cotter went on, "any more than Adam, to whom the box belonged.
"The circumstances," said Thorndyke, "appear to have been these: The deceased seems to have been alone; there is no trace of a second occupant of the room, and only one half-emptied tumbler on the table.
"Look at the slip again," said Thorndyke. "It is faintly but evenly discoloured and, to me, has the appearance of having been soaked in water. Let us, for the moment, assume that it has been.
I gave him a condensed narrative of my connection with the mysterious patient, omitting any reference to Thorndyke, and passing lightly over my efforts to fix the position of the house, and wound up with the remark that the facts ought certainly to be communicated to the police. "Yes," he admitted reluctantly, "I suppose you're right. Deuced unpleasant though.
"We did not think of it until this morning early, though we have been rather curious over it ourselves. When we opened it, inside was another letter addressed 'To be delivered to John Thorndyke, Esquire, at Crawley, near Hastings, or at Crowswood, Reigate, or in the event of his death to his executors." "I am one of his executors," Mark said; "Mr. Prendergast, the lawyer, is the other.
Unfortunately, however, this was not the case, and the diamonds had to be taken to the works and locked up in the safe." "Who placed them in the safe?" asked Thorndyke. "Mr. Hornby himself, to whom Mr. Reuben delivered up the package on his return from the docks." "Yes," said Thorndyke, "and what happened next?"
And it seemed my own eye had this disconcerting quality, for even as I looked at him, the document suddenly went up again and began to shake violently. I stood it for a minute or two, but, finding the situation intolerably embarrassing, I rose, and brusquely excusing myself, went up to the laboratory to look for Polton and inquire at what time Thorndyke was expected home.
Further, it appeared that a strike in the building trade had been followed immediately by a widespread failure of health among the bricklayers who were members of a certain benefit club; which accounted for the remarkable suddenness of the outbreak. Of course, my contemplated visit to Thorndyke was out of the question. I should have to act on my own responsibility.
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