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Asked if a formal receipt had been given, Walen said that it had. And now I come to the gist of the whole matter. You saw Dr. Cross hand me a mass of papers, etc., taken from the person of the gentleman who was nearly killed in your house?" David nodded. His breath was coming a little faster. His quick mind had run on ahead; he saw the gulf looming before him. "Go on," said he, hoarsely, "go on.
Walen further proceeded to show me an entry in his purchasing ledger which proved that a cigar-case in gun-metal and diamonds bearing that legend had been added to the stock quite recently a few weeks ago, in fact." "Well, what of that?" David asked, impatiently. "For all I know, the case might have come from Walen's.
"We therefore commit their bodies to the air," he says, an' puts his cap on. "The deep the deep," says Walen. "It's just twenty-three miles to the Channel." "Poor chaps! Poor chaps!" says Mankeltow. "We'd have had 'em to dinner if they hadn't lost their heads. I can't tell you how this distresses me, Laughton." "Well, look at here, Arthur," I says.
Not that he failed to recognise the gravity of the situation, only it appealed in the first instance to the professional side of his character. "Walen is quite sure?" he asked. "No possible doubt about that, eh?" "Not in the least.
Ya-as.... After lunch Walen did his crowned-heads-of-Europe stunt in the smokin'-room here. He was long on Kings. And Continental crises. I do not pretend to follow British domestic politics, but in the aeroplane business a man has to know something of international possibilities. At present, you British are settin' in kimonoes on dynamite kegs.
She's from Harwich; fastish, too, an' hez good luck; but Dad he'd find fish in a graveyard. Them other three, side along, they're the Margie Smith, Rose, and Edith S. Walen, all from home. 'Guess we'll see the Abbie M. Deering to-morrer, Dad, won't we? They're all slippin' over from the shaol o' 'Oueereau." "You won't see many boats to-morrow, Danny."
We knew it, but we went through the motions till it was quite dark. 'Wonder if all murderers do that? "We want a light on this," says Walen after a spell. "There ought to be one in the machine. Why didn't they light it?" 'We came out of Flora's Temple, and shut the doors behind us. Some stars were showing then same as when Cain did his little act, I guess. I climbed up and searched the machine.
"Death being instantaneous," says Walen. 'Lord Lundie takes off his gown and wig you could see him do it and becomes our fellow-murderer. "That's our case," he says. "I know how I should direct the jury, but it's an undignified business for a Lord of Appeal to lift his hand to, and some of my learned brothers," he says, "might be disposed to be facetious."
Zigler," he said, "will you tell us what steps you took to bring about the death of the first accused?" I told him. He wanted to know specially whether I'd stretched first accused before or after he had fired at Mankeltow. Mankeltow testified he'd been shot at, and exhibited his neck as evidence. It was scorched. "Now, Mr. Walen," says Lord Lundie.
That was pretty bad when I couldn't for the life of me give a lucid reason for the possession of those notes; but there was worse to come. In the pocket of the injured man was a receipt for a diamond-studded gun-metal cigar-case, purchased the day of the outrage. And Walen, the jeweller, proved beyond a doubt that the case I claimed was purchased at his shop." Bell nodded gravely.
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