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Updated: June 14, 2025
There were always fresh vistas opening before the human mind. Barrant left the study for the opposite room where the body of Robert Turold had been taken. It was his bedroom, and he had been laid upon the bed. Death had not come to him easily.
It must have winged Remington pretty bad, because he went tumbling off the ridge head first, like a man taking a dive into the water. I turned and climbed down to where I'd left Turold. His face was all aglow with rage. 'The infernal scoundrel! he said, then 'Did you get the diamonds? 'How was I to get them when I never caught him? I said.
I'll bring you up your supper, and some whisky with it. And the sooner you leave this cursed hole of a place, the better it will be." He crossed over to the fireplace and poked the coal into a red glow, and then turned to leave the room. It was plain that his words had some effect on Robert Turold, and he made an effort to restore his dignity before the witness of his humiliation left him.
He reflected that the Turolds, father and son, were after all the greatest gainers by their relative's death. The father came into immediate possession of a large and unexpected fortune which he would bequeath to his son. And Austin Turold was not anxious apparently to proceed with his brother's claim for the title. These were facts which could not be gainsaid, but where did they lead?
If Robert Turold had not safeguarded his dearest ambition because he hoped to carry it out himself, it followed as a matter of course that he did not take his own life. Mr. Brimsdown had never accepted that theory, but it was strange to have it so conclusively proved, as it were, by the inference of an omission.
Then I made out the form of Charles Turold, standing in his dressing-gown in front of the fireplace, in which a fire of kindling wood was leaping and blazing. I could not make out at first what he was doing. He seemed to be stooping over the fire, moving something about. Then I saw. He was drying his clothes the suit he had worn that day.
"Joseph" such was her husband's name "you had better go and see if the car is ready, and I will go for Sisily. Is she upstairs in her room, Robert?" "I believe so," said Robert Turold, bending abstractedly over his papers. "But you had better ask Thalassa. He'll tell you. Thalassa will know." Mrs. Pendleton looked angrily at him, but was wise enough to forbear from further speech.
Brimsdown was not quite sure which that the question of money was introduced. The lawyer had pointed out to his client that the search for the title was likely to be prolonged and expensive, and Robert Turold had indifferently assured him that he had money at his command for that purpose lying on deposit at a London bank. The amount, when he did mention it, was much greater than Mr.
She pressed her handkerchief to her eyes. The lawyer, with a sideways glance at the Royal portrait opposite, which seemed in the act of smiling blandly at his companion's grief, reflected, soberly enough, that sweet and pretty girls were as human as the rest of creation, if it came to that. "Charlie Turold my nephew, you know will have it that she is innocent." "In spite of her disappearance?"
But it is certain that whoever committed the murder left the room immediately after firing the shot, and the door was locked on the outside and the key removed. If the daughter committed the murder it was probably Thalassa who replaced the key in the room afterwards." "Have you any doubt on that point?" "The probabilities point to Thalassa, but it was Austin Turold who actually picked up the key.
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