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The question came from Chick Carter, in his familiar and cheerful fashion, several hours after the interview held by the two detectives with Rufus Venner and his partner in their Fifth Avenue store.
True, the hour was exceedingly late; but then a huge place like the Great Empire Hotel was practically open night and day, and a request at one o'clock in the morning that a guest in the house should be awakened to receive another guest would be nothing in the way of a novelty. "Very well," Venner said. "Let her put on her hat and jacket, and she can come with me at once."
It indicates a strong and determined character. I should say that Señora Cervera is a woman of rare qualities." "That is perfectly correct, sir. She is a woman of rare qualities." "What did she decide to do about the diamonds, Mr. Venner?" "She gave me an order for the cross, Detective Carter, to be made and delivered as soon as possible." "This was during your call upon her this morning?"
"I'll now tell you why," cried Kilgore, with voice lowered, and an ugly gleam in his frowning eyes. "We cannot sack Cervera, nor put out her light, for she's too good and strong a card for us to lose. But in losing her head over Venner, and jealously doing up that girl to-day, she has given the Carters a clew by which to track us." "How so, Dave?" muttered Stall, growing a bit pale.
Dudley Venner had talked with his minister about this child of his. But he had talked cautiously, feeling his way for sympathy, looking out for those indications of tact and judgment which would warrant him in some partial communication, at least, of the origin of his doubts and fears, and never finding them. There was something about the Reverend Mr.
"I think I've got it," he said. "We will wound Fenwick with one of his own weapons. It will be the easiest thing in the world to got from here to Victoria well under two hours in a motor." "I guess that's about true," Grady said, drily. "But what applies to the special equally applies to the motor. Where are we to get the machine from?" "Borrow Fenwick's," Venner said.
"Of course," Venner said. "The trouble is where to find the furnace. I am perfectly sure, too, that the sovereigns were genuine. Now what on earth can a man gain by taking current coins of the realm and making them red hot? The only chance of a solution is for me to find Egan and Grady and tell them of my discovery.
Dudley Venner prayed that night that he might be forgiven, if he had failed in any act of duty or kindness to this unfortunate child of his, now freed from all the woes born with her and so long poisoning her soul.
It was dark enough and sheltered enough in that secluded corner of the hall for Venner to draw the girl towards him and kiss her lips passionately. Just for a brief moment Vera lay in her husband's arms; then, with a little sigh, she disengaged herself and disappeared slowly up the stairs. She had placed Beth in her own room, which they would share together for that night, at any rate.
After a few words of salutation, he said quietly, "Elsie, my dear, your cousin Richard has left us." She grew still paler, as she asked, "Is he dead?" Dudley Venner started to see the expression with which Elsie put this question. "He is living, but dead to us from this day forward," said her father. He proceeded to tell her, in a general way, the story he had just heard from Abel.
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