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Tomorrow I'll swear a dozen charges against him burglary, abduction, instigation to murder, attempts to kill; and when he hears 'em read over, he'll be putty in your fingers." "Thanks," said Finucane. "Next: ring up the police and the station-master at Todsmoor.
When Melchard had been removed, Dick gave his three listeners a rapid and, as their faces and exclamatory comment testified, a vivid sketch of his adventure from his detection of the perfume which pervaded the alcove in Randal's study and the corroboration of his suspicions given by Melchard's attempted alibi in the letter to Amaryllis, to the time when his train pulled out of Todsmoor station; and, in the course of his narrative, he laid on the table, each at its historic point, his pièces de conviction.
As the train ran out of Todsmoor, "I shouldn't wonder," said Dick comfortably to Amaryllis, "if that's the last fence, and a straight run home for us." But there was fear as well as disgust in the glance which Amaryllis threw at the gross slumber of their prisoner. She had felt his power stretched over half a county, and who should fix its limit for her?
"I don't know who you are, my good man," he said, "nor why you come barging into this. What more d'you want? Your Napoleon of crime is in the oubliette, two of his dastard accomplices are in clink at Todsmoor, three more are being tracked to their doom in Bayswater, two are dead " Here Dick produced from inner pockets a small white packet and an envelope.
Tell 'em to keep tight hold of the man who fell out of the train between Harthborough and Todsmoor at five-forty p.m. and of the bloke that was with him, suspected of throwing him out." Finucane paid his guest the compliment of obeying without question. As he hung up the receiver, "The man's in hospital, all right," he said, "broken collar-bone.
There's going to be fun at Todsmoor, and I don't want any Millsborough back-talk mixed up with it. Look out of that window while I physic him. It's not nice to watch." It was nasty enough to hear, thought Amaryllis. By the time it was over the train was slowing down. Before it stopped Dick was out on the platform, and in two strides had caught the guard. "There's been an accident.
"We shall pull up at Todsmoor in a few minutes. Let's compose ourselves. You must be asleep in your corner " He broke off, eyeing her face keenly; then finished his sentence tenderly with an "if you please, my dear." The girl blushed gloriously. "I hurt its tender feelings, didn't I, when I barked?" "Yes for a moment. But it it made me so angry, Dick, that I forgot to be frightened.
And when he had carried his audience past Todsmoor station, "That's all," he said. "Can't I go home to bed now, superintendent?" But the bearded stranger intervened. "One of your clever young officers, I presume," he said to Finucane. "I wish to God he were, Sir Gregory," replied the superintendent. "A clever, and, I gather, somewhat high-handed amateur. The young lady, I hope, is safe."
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