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"No sooner had Laura Vanderdyke learned of this intimacy of her husband," continued Whitney, "than she quietly hired private detectives to shadow him, and on their evidence she obtained a divorce. The papers were sealed, and she resumed her maiden name. "As far as I can find out, Vanderdyke then disappeared from her life.
Meanwhile if you can see Vanderdyke and Mrs. Ralston you can help me a great deal. I am sure you will find them very interesting people." "I have been told that she is quite a female high financier," I replied, tacitly accepting Craig's commission.
It quite surprised me when I found from the directory that Vanderdyke's office was on the floor below in the same building. Like Mrs. Ralston's, it was open, but not doing business, pending the investigation by the Post-Office Department. Vanderdyke was a type of which I had seen many before.
It fell back limp, and I noted the ring of the bluest lapis lazuli. Mrs. Ralston threw herself toward him. "Will you not do something? Is there no antidote? Don't let him die!" she cried. "You are the murderer," repeated Kennedy, as if demanding a final answer. Again the hand moved in confession, and he feebly moved the finger on which shone the ring. Our attention was centred on Vanderdyke. Mrs.
A trace of a smile flitted over Vanderdyke's features, as much as to say that he was beyond our interference. "Vanderdyke," said Craig, with what seemed to me a brutal calmness, "then it was you who were the visitor who last saw Laura Wainwright and John Templeton alive. Whether you shot a dart at them I do not know. But you are the murderer." Vanderdyke raised his hand as if to assent.
I mention this, because Vanderdyke later became Laura's first husband. This marriage with Templeton was a second venture." "How long ago was she divorced?" asked Craig attentively. "About three years ago. I'm coming to that in a moment. The sisters went to college together, Templeton to law school, and Vanderdyke studied civil engineering.
We could have gone somewhere else and started all over again it wouldn't have been the first time." At last came the flutter of an eyelid and a voluntary breath or two. Vanderdyke seemed to realise where he was. With a last supreme effort he raised his hand and drew it slowly across his face. Then he fell back, exhausted by the effort. But he had at last put himself beyond the reach of the law.
As far as I can learn he had been a fellow of convivial habits at college, and about two years after their marriage his wife suddenly became aware of what had long been well known in Williston, that Vanderdyke was paying marked attention to a woman named Miss Laporte in New York.
"Well, the Wainwrights are an old Westchester family, not very wealthy, but of the real aristocracy of the county. There were only two children, Laura and Marian. The Templetons were much the same sort of family. The children all attended a private school at White Plains, and there also they met Schuyler Vanderdyke. These four constituted a sort of little aristocracy in the school.
"Vanderdyke seems to have dropped all his early associations completely, though at present I find he is back in New York raising capital for a company to exploit a new asphalt concession in the interior of Venezuela. Miss Laporte has also reappeared in New York as Mrs. Ralston, with a mining claim in the mountains of Peru." "And Templeton?" asked Craig.
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