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Vantine remained in our warehouse, and this other one was boxed and shipped to him. We are investigating most rigidly." "Then Mr. Vantine's cabinet is still in Paris?" "No, Mr. Lester; the error was discovered some days ago and the cabinet belonging to Mr. Vantine was shipped to me here. It should arrive next Wednesday on La Provence. I shall myself receive it, and deliver it to Mr. Vantine."
And I told him in detail the story of the Boule cabinet; I repeated Vantine's theory of its first ownership; I named the price which he was ready to pay for it; I described the difference between an original and a counterpart, and dwelt upon Vantine's assertion that this was an original of unique and unquestionable artistry.
On the back of one of them, Vantine's address was written in pencil.
"The killing, whatever its cause, was done out there in the ante-room, not in here." "What makes you think that?" "We believe that Drouet came here to get Vantine's permission to open this drawer and get the letters, no doubt representing himself as the agent of their owner." "I think it's a pretty good guess," said Godfrey, pensively.
"Feel better?" he asked. I nodded. "I don't wonder it knocked you out," he went on. "I'm feeling shaky myself. I had them call Vantine's physician but he can't do anything." "He's dead, then?" I murmured, my eyes on that dark and crumpled object which had been Philip Vantine. "Yes just like the other." Then I remembered, and I caught his arm and drew him down to me.
"Hello!" I said, as I took down the receiver of my desk 'phone, in answer to the call. "Mr. Vantine wishes to speak to you, sir," said the office-boy. "All right," and I heard the snap of the connection. "Is that you, Lester?" asked Philip Vantine's voice. "Yes. So you're back again?" "Got in yesterday. Can you come up to the house and lunch with me to-day?"
He made a little deprecating gesture, and then proceeded to have the cabinet very carefully wrapped in the burlap which had been around the other one. I watched it disappear under the rough covering with something like regret, for already my eyes were being opened to its beauty. Besides, I told myself again, with it would disappear the last hope of solving the mystery of Philip Vantine's death.
Then, too, the mystery of Vantine's death had a depressing effect upon me. So long as there seemed some theory to build on, so long as there was a ray of light ahead, I had hoped that the tragedy would be explained and expiated; but now my theory had crumbled to pieces; I was left in utter darkness, from which there seemed no way out.
Thirdly and lastly, they only give their own personal attention to their concubines, and leave all their honest and respectable subjects to be dealt with by servants and secretaries. Our King, for example, never smiles so graciously as on Madame Vantine, the wife of Vantine the wine-grower; and he buys Vantine's wines as well as his wife, which brings in a double profit to the firm!"
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