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This quite upset Slivers' idea as if Vandeloup had gone to bed at twelve, he certainly could not have murdered Villiers nearly a mile away at two o'clock in the morning. Slivers was puzzled, and then the light broke on him perhaps it was the dumb man. 'Did the other stay here all night also? Miss Twexby nodded. 'Both in the same room, she answered. 'What time did the dumb chap come in?
So Vandeloup's bright smiles and merry jokes failed to call forth any response from the fair Martha, who sat silently in the bar, looking like a crabbed sphinx. 'Is my friend Pierre in? asked Vandeloup, leaning across the counter, and looking lovingly at Miss Twexby.
I haven't seen him all the evening, replied Miss Twexby, tossing her head, 'now, go away. You're a naughty, wicked, deceitful thing. I declare I'm quite afraid of you. 'There's no need, I assure you, replied Vandeloup, in a slightly sarcastic voice, as he surveyed the plain-looking woman before him; 'you are quite safe from me.
I am not, pursued Miss Twexby, furiously, 'a loaf of bread to be cut, neither am I a pin-cushion to have things stuck into me; so if you want to be a corpse, you'd better go up yourself. 'I hardly think he'll touch me, replied Vandeloup, coolly, going towards the door which led to Pierre's bedroom.
He walked slowly home to the hotel, smoking a cigarette, and thinking deeply. When he arrived at the 'Wattle Tree' he saw a light still burning in the bar, and, on knocking at the door, was admitted by Miss Twexby, who had been making up accounts, and whose virgin head was adorned with curl-papers.
'Mademoiselle, he said, touching the flowers, 'you see I still have them they will remind me of you, and raising his hat he strolled idly out of the hotel, and went off in the direction of the Black Hill. Miss Twexby ran to the door, and shading her eyes with her hands from the blinding glare of the sun, she watched him lounging along the street, tall, slender, and handsome.
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