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Needless to say Kennedy was ahead of him. "Have you any facts in your possession which have not been given to the public yet?" asked Craig. "I'm coming to that in a moment," replied Dr. Hanson. "Let me sketch the case first. Henry Vandam had become well, very eccentric in his old age, we will say.
We had no trouble in getting in to see Mr. Vandam in his seance-room. His face was familiar to me, for I had seen him in public a number of times, but it looked strangely altered. He was nervous, and showed his age very perceptibly. It was as the coroner's physician had said.
While M. Pelet employed himself in choosing a cigar from a box, my thoughts reverted to the two outcast ushers, whose voices I could hear even now crying hoarsely for order in the playground. "C'est une grande responsabilite, que la surveillance," observed I. "Plait-il?" dit M. Pelet. I remarked that I thought Messieurs Vandam and Kint must sometimes be a little fatigued with their labours.
However, I give this to you for what it is worth." Craig said nothing, but, as was his habit, shaded his eyes with the tips of his fingers, resting his elbows on the arms of his chair: "I suppose," he said, "you can give me the necessary authority to enter the Vandam house and look at the scene of these happenings?" "Certainly," assented the physician, "but you will find it a queer place.
It may seem an impertinence for a city official to call on you for assistance, but well, you see, I'm completely floored. I think, too, that the case will interest you. It's the Vandam case." If Dr. Hanson had suddenly turned on the current of an induction coil and I had been holding the handles I don't think the thrill I received could have been any more sudden.
Immediately he bowed low and returned it to her finger, saying: "Permit me, mademoiselle, to present it to you in my turn so as to save you the embarrassment of asking for it." Mr. Vandam relates among other anecdotes about her that one evening she dined at the house of Comte Duchatel.
We found near the unfortunate woman a small pill-box with three capsules still in it. It was labelled 'One before retiring' and bore the name of a certain druggist and the initials 'Dr. C. W. H. Now, I am convinced that the initials are merely a blind and do not give any clue. The druggist says that a maid from the Vandam house brought in the prescription, which of course he filled.
"To-night, Jameson," he said, indicating a spot on the hall wall just back of the cabinet, "I shall want you to bring my guests out here and do a little spirit rapping I'll tell you just what to do when the time comes." That night, when we gathered in the transformed laboratory, there were Henry Vandam, Dr. Hanson, Inspector O'Connor, Kennedy, and myself.
Just why it is thought more creditable for a resident of New York to have descended from a Huguenot peasant or artisan than from an English colonist, those may tell who fancy that social pretenses have a rational basis. Charley's mother's father was named Vandam.
"I have let it go on merely for the purpose of opening the eyes of a certain deluded gentleman in this room. Now, if you will all be seated I shall have something to say that will finally establish whether Mary Vandam was the victim of accident, suicide, or murder." With hearts beating rapidly we sat in silence.
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