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He gathered that, somehow or other, he was to have more money, money which was coming to him because the "Tinplate crowd," whoever they were, were to do something or other that people like Barbour called "cutting a melon." "You understand, Professor?" asked Mr. Barbour, concluding his explanation.
She joined you when you fled from the gambling-den in Tinplate Street, and shared your flight from Paris. She was with you in St. Petersburg till you separated after a violent quarrel " "The blame was hers," interrupted Ledantec. "Possibly, but you were equally to blame. In any case she left you to shift for herself.
"DEAR SIR: "Pursuant to your instructions in our conversation of recent date I am enclosing check representing your share of the new Tinplate re-issue, sale of rights, transfer of old stock, bonus, etc. The transfer has been, as I told you I felt sure it would be, very advantageous and profitable to stockholders like yourself. The amount due you, as shown in statement attached, is "
Pelle and Young Lasse had to be off. "You are always in such a hurry!" said Marie dolefully. "I wanted to make coffee." "Yes, I've got a lot to do to-day still. Otherwise I'd gladly stay with you a bit." "Do you know you are gradually getting quite famous?" said Marie, looking at him in admiration. "The people talk almost as much about you as they do about the big tinplate manufacturer.
He requested that the check for the Tinplate balance be deposited to his account and sent it in the envelope with his letter to Thomas. Then he fearfully awaited the next blow. It came, and in a new fashion, about a week later. He and Martha were in the sitting room after supper when the telephone bell rang. "Pardon me, Miss Martha," said Galusha, "but wasn't that our I should say your ring?"
It was the slip which had fallen from the Cabot, Bancroft and Cabot letter and was a check drawn to his order for fourteen thousand, three hundred and ten dollars and thirty-eight cents, his share of the Tinplate "melon." Fifteen more minutes passed before Mr. Bangs came down to the sitting room, but when he did he came in a great hurry.
The confession made by Ledantec and the evidence of other witnesses so amply attested the innocence of the M. Gascoigne accused of the Tinplate Street murder that his release followed as a matter of course.
"You are the real author of the crime in Tinplate Street." "M. Rupert Gascoigne is your informant, I presume," said Ledantec sneering; "it is easy to rebut a charge by throwing it on another. But you are too clever, M. le Juge, to be imposed upon." "You at least cannot hoodwink me. We have the fullest evidence, let me tell you, of the crime all the crimes laid to your charge.
It was, of course, inevitable that the affair of Tinplate Street should be re-opened. But a new complexion was given to it by the recent arrests. Hyde had been interrogated at once by the magistrate who had examined him before; the same man, but so different; no longer insolently positive and threatening unjustly, but bland, considerate, obliging.
"It is quite evident," he said to himself, "that Cyprienne has tried to turn the tables on me. I was too open with her. It was incautious of me to show my hand so soon. Of course the police have been set upon me the accused and still unjudged perpetrator of the crime in Tinplate Street by her. But has she acted alone in this? "I doubt it.
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