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It was a wig of rich, dark-red hair, which fell in lovely rings about the woman's fair forehead and white neck. She lifted her face with a cry of terror at Mr. Rider's act, and behold! the beautiful Mrs. Vanderbeck was before them! Ray knew at once why Mrs. Montague had looked so strangely to him as she arose to greet him when he entered.
We know how Ray was introduced to her, and repeated her name as Vanderbeck, with an emphasis on the beck; how she started, changed color, and glanced at him curiously as he did so, and seemed strangely ill at ease while conversing with him afterward, and a little later abruptly took her leave.
Vanderbeck until he had been so strangely over-powered with sleep by the influence of those masterful eyes, which had peered at him through an aperture in the wall. As his mind went back over the strange incidents of the day he began to experience anew great anxiety over the loss of the rare stones which had been so cleverly stolen from him, and also regarding the fate in store for him.
Rider is confident that Mrs. Bently, of the Chicago affair, and Mrs. Vanderbeck, or 'heck' whatever her name may be are one and the same person." "Well, it is certain that Mrs. Vanderheck, of New York, who figures so conspicuously in society, has an enormous store of diamonds, however she came by them," Louis Hamblin remarked.
Vanderbeck had worn when she stole the Palmer diamonds, and immediately telegraphed to have the fragment sent to me." "And Ray Palmer had it and had kept it all that time!" interposed Mrs. Montague, with a frown. "I hunted everywhere for it." "He sent it to me by the next mail, and I began my hunt for the dress, although at that time I did not suspect that it belonged to you," Mona continued.
Vanderbeck remarked, in the midst of a witty anecdote: "Here we are at last ah " This last ejaculation was caused by discovering that she could not rise from her seat, her dress having been shut into the door of the coupé. Ray bent forward with a polite "allow me," to assist her, but found that he could not disengage the dress.
Vanderbeck suddenly discovered that her dress had caught in the carriage door, and she could not rise. Of course I offered assistance in disengaging it; but in spite of our united efforts, the garment was torn during the operation.
He knew that the diamonds were in his pocket when the carriage stopped before the house, for he had not removed his hand from the package until Mrs. Vanderbeck discovered that her dress had been caught in the door of the carriage.
I want to know in what way you are connected with that woman who called herself Mrs. Vanderbeck, and who enticed me here with valuable diamonds, only to steal them from me? I believe I am in the power of a gang of thieves, and though I cannot reconcile it with what I had heard of you previously, that you must be associated in some way with them."
William Vanderbeck, called at my father's store on the day I came here, and asked to look at diamonds. You will remember, I told you my father is a diamond dealer. They were shown to her, and she selected several very expensive ornaments, which she said she wished to wear at a reception that evening.
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