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Since then he has grown bolder, as witness the murder of the Baron van Veltrup," I replied. "But why should he not have shown you the dead girl?" queried the Superintendent. "Because he no doubt wished to mystify me in case of my recovery from the effects of the drug," was my reply.
The Count died recently in San Sebastian just after he, with van Veltrup, had promoted a great railway scheme in Central Spain. The circumstances of the Baron's death appear to be somewhat mysterious, says our Amsterdam correspondent. Three days ago the banker, who is a widower, went to The Hague, where in a private room in an obscure hotel, he met a man on business.
The reputation of the house of Veltrup was one of the highest standing, and the Baron's untimely death has cast a gloom over financial circles in all the European capitals." I raised my eyes from the paper and gazed across the Thames now growing grey in the evening light.
Of a sudden I came across a heading which attracted me, and read as follows: "The sudden death is announced, at his house outside Amsterdam, of Baron Harte van Veltrup, the well-known Dutch financier, who for some years was in active association with the Spanish banker, the late Count de Chamartin.
If such were the case, it seemed more than probable that to Count de Chamartin, the intimate associate of Oswald De Gex, a similar dose of orosin had been administered! The means by which the unfortunate Baron van Veltrup had met with his death was as ingenious as that practised upon me by the expert thief, Despujol.
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