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I could also fancy their city editors damning as they compared these incoherent imaginings with the admirable and closely-written story in the Record, and I suspected that it was the realisation of the Record's triumph which had caused the descent of the phalanx of reporters upon the Vantine place. I went over the whole affair with Mr.
The clerk who made the supposed sale to Vantine and got a commission on it, resigned suddenly two days ago just as soon as he had intercepted your cable and answered it. The Paris police are looking for him, but I doubt if they'll find him." I paused to think this over; and then a sudden impatience seized me. "That's all clear enough," I said.
Harvey had a notion that the east coast of his native land, from Mount Desert south, was populated chiefly by people who took their horses there in the summer and entertained in country-houses with hardwood floors and Vantine portires. He laughed at the ghost-tales, not as much as he would have done a month before, but ended by sitting still and shuddering.
"I am inclined to think," I concluded, "that Vantine blundered upon the drawer while examining the cabinet; but there is no doubt that the other man knew of the drawer, and also, presumably, of its contents." "Well!" exclaimed my companion. "I have listened to many astonishing stories in my life, but never one to equal this. And you know nothing of this Frenchman?"
"That sounds probable," agreed Grady. "But what makes you think she killed Vantine?" "Well, sir," answered Rogers, slowly, "I guess I oughtn't to have said that; but finding the door open that way, and then coming on Mr. Vantine sort of upset me I didn't know just what I was saying." "You don't think so now, then?" questioned Grady, sharply. "I don't know what to think, sir."
"Yes," I answered; "it really belongs to the Vantine estate, you know; I'm going to put in a claim for it that is, if you are not willing to surrender it without contest." "Did you just happen to think of this in the middle of the night?" he inquired quizzically. "No," I said, boldly; "but I saw you and Mr.
"No," said Godfrey; "he didn't have time. You understand, Mr. Vantine," he added, smiling at that gentleman, who was listening to all this with perplexed countenance, "we are simply talking now about possibilities.
Look at the arabesques along the front can you imagine anything more graceful? And the engraving nothing cut-and-dried about that. It was done by a burin in the hands of a master perhaps by Boule himself. I don't wonder Vantine was rather mad about it. But we haven't found that drawer yet," and he drew his chair close to the cabinet.
You will think me foolish, Lester, but even that cablegram hasn't shaken my belief in the existence of that secret drawer." "And all the rest?" I asked. "Yes," he answered slowly, "and all the rest." He said nothing more until we stopped before the Vantine house, but I could see, from his puckered brows, how desperately he was trying to untangle this quirk in the mystery.
The drawer which Drouet and M. Vantine opened," and here his voice became a little strident under the stress of great emotion, "is on the right side of the cabinet, exactly opposite the other, and opened by a similar combination. But there is one great difference. About the first drawer, there is nothing to harm any one; the other is guarded by the deadliest poison the world has ever known.
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