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"Diamonds may be made from coal," said he. "The fact that I should have got hold of a piece in the road here, while tracking that diamond swindler in search of his house, strikes me as being rather odd." "So it was," said Nick, a bit dryly, thinking of Venner's house in the near distance. Then he added, decisively: "Put up your gun, Mr. Pylotte. I want you to go with me.
Venner persisted, and the steel pricked him. Then, as Tomlin's weapon rasped out, Venner's blood leaped to fighting-heat with his slight wound, and in the next instant the three-sided duel was hotly in progress. Three-sided it became after the first exchanges.
There was a smile of subtle cunning, combined with cruel and malicious determination, on Venner's dark face and he muttered under his breath, as the store door closed upon Nick's imposing figure: "Hear from you later, eh? Very good. Very good, indeed, Mr. Detective Carter! Hear from you again that is precisely what I want! Early and often, Detective Carter; early and often, if you please!
Otherwise he could not have planned the job so neatly. Somebody must have informed him. Somebody must have provided him with one of Venner's letter sheets. If we eliminate the clerks, and the members of both firms, we are left very much in the dark." "I should say so," rejoined Chick. "The affair becomes a dense mystery."
With the passing of the tempest, and the first sign of a star in the eastern sky, all that remained of the house above the diamond plant was a heap of red, smoldering embers, filling the cellar and the secret chamber and blotting out, though perhaps not forever, the secret art of that misguided genius, Jean Pylotte, dead with a bullet in his brain, on the floor of Rufus Venner's hall.
The professional gentleman himself was out, but the lady introduced the olive-complexioned young man as Mr. Richard Venner. The Widow was particularly pleased with this accidental meeting. Had heard Mr. Venner's name frequently mentioned. Hoped his uncle was well, and his charming cousin, was she as original as ever? Had often admired that charming creature he rode: we had had some fine horses.
Hence there exists a possibility that she designed to get him away from his store at just that time, in order that the robbery could be successfully executed." "In which case, Nick, we necessarily must figure her in with the Kilgore gang, despite Venner's declaration of her honesty." "Certainly we must, Chick, in case her note to Venner was written for the purpose mentioned," nodded Nick.
'We-e-ll, said the detective, slowly. 'It is this way. We have only got his word to go on as regards the cups. This man, Stokes, it seems is a notorious poacher. The night after the robbery he took the cups out with him on an expedition in some woods that lie in the direction of Badgwick. I think Badgwick is the name. 'Badgwick! Not Sir Alfred Venner's woods? 'Sir Alfred Venner it was, sir.
Then a wire was sent to Patsy, the detective's younger assistant, with careful instructions. Seven o'clock came, then half-past seven, but no sign of Venner's carriage. Nick readily suspected the true reason for the delay. "They are waiting until dark," he observed to Chick. "They don't want our arrival at Venner's house to be observed. A crafty dog, this Kilgore!" "That he is." "Never mind.
In the meantime he found that Elsie was getting more constant in her attendance at school, and learned, on inquiry, that there was a new master, a handsome young man. The handsome young man would not have liked the look that came over Dick Venner's face when he heard this fact mentioned. For Mr. Richard had decided that he must have the property, that this was his one great chance in life.
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