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This being the case, he certainly would not lend himself to such an outrageous trick as had been practiced upon him that day. He did not believe what the old man told him he did not believe that he was in Doctor Wesselhoff's house at all.
"Why?" inquired the physician, with some astonishment. "It is not always safe, you know," Ray answered, looking him straight in the eye, "for one who has aided and abetted a stupendous robbery to appear so soon upon the scene of his depredations." Doctor Wesselhoff's face fell.
"I have heard of him. He is the noted brain and nerve specialist, isn't he?" "Yes, sir." "And am I in his house?" the young man demanded, his amazement in nowise abated. "Yes, this is Doctor Wesselhoff's residence." "That is very strange! I cannot understand!" Ray remarked, deeply perplexed. "Why am I here?" "You have not been quite well of late, and you are here for treatment." "For treatment?
But I am forgetting that I have a thrilling story to tell you." He then related all that had occurred in connection with the bold diamond robbery and his imprisonment and subsequent illness in Doctor Wesselhoff's retreat for nervous patients, while Mona listened with wonder-wide eyes and a paling cheek, as she realized the danger through which her lover had passed.
This remark caused a general laugh, and then the conversation turned upon the recent robbery, which was discussed at some length. "Who would have thought of decoying Ray Palmer into Doctor Wesselhoff's retreat?" exclaimed Alice Farwell. "It was a very daring thing to do. By the way, I wonder what the reason is young Palmer did not come with his father?
"My coup de gracé was just after ringing Doctor Wesselhoff's bell, while we stood together on the steps; the package was not large, though valuable, and it was but the work of a moment to transfer it from your pocket to mine, while you stood there with your arms full." Ray regarded her wonderingly.
Vanderbeck had selected on that never-to-be-forgotten day when he was decoyed into Doctor Wesselhoff's establishment and left there a prisoner, while the woman made off with her booty. "Where did you get it?" he exclaimed, while Mrs. Montague fell back among the cushions of her chair and covered her face with her trembling hands, utterly unnerved.
"You say her dress was badly torn," Mona musingly observed, when he had concluded the account of the discovery, and what had followed their getting out of the carriage and entering Doctor Wesselhoff's office.
It was a fine, heavy ladies' cloth, of a delicate shade of gray just the color, Mona was confident, of that tiny piece of goods which Ray had shown her at Hazeldean, and which had been torn from the dress of the woman who had trapped him into Doctor Wesselhoff's residence, and stolen his diamonds. She was very much excited for a few moments, and her heart beat with rapid throbs.
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