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Reaching the upper landing he blew out the light of his candle, slammed the door to his own room, noisily turned the key, and shot the bolt of another, then tiptoed his way back to the staircase and looked down the well-hole into the lower hall. Zuilika had retired to her room, the major had retired to his, and now Anita was taking up her candle to retire to hers.
You are not interested in me, amigo?" "No, no; of course I'm not. You are nothing to me at all you Oh, I beg your pardon; I didn't quite mean that. I I mean you are nothing to me in that way. But you you're not keeping to your word. You promised, you know, that you'd use your influence with Zuilika; that you'd get her to be more kind to me to see me alone and and all that sort of thing.
"Then your interest in the affair, Major, may be said to be a double one." "More, sir a triple one. I have a rival in the shape of my own son. He, too, wishes to marry Zuilika is madly enamoured of her, in fact; so wildly that I have always hesitated to confess my own desires to him for fear of the consequences.
You may or may not have heard of a music-hall artiste a sort of conjuror and impersonator called 'Zyco the Magician, who was assisted in his illusions by a veiled but reputedly beautiful Turkish lady who was billed on the programmes and posters as 'Zuilika, the Caliph's Daughter." "I remember the pair very well indeed.
His friendship with that Spanish woman; his going with her to identify the body even assisting in its hurried burial! These things all seemed so frightfully black, so utterly without any explanation other than personal guilt." "Yet they all are easily explained, Major. His friendship for the Spanish woman is merely due to a promise to intercede for him with Zuilika.
I've examined the caliph's mummy-case; the mummy itself has been removed destroyed done away with utterly and the poor creature's body is there!" And here the poor, dumbfounded, utterly bewildered major found voice to speak at last. "Mummy-case! Body! Dear God in heaven, Mr. Cleek, what are you hinting at?" he gasped. "You you don't mean that she that Zuilika killed him?"
Those who were watching saw Anita's two hands suddenly caught, heard a sharp, metallic "click," and saw them as suddenly dropped again to the accompaniment of a shrill little scream from her ashen lips, and the next moment Cleek had risen and jumped away from her side clear across to where Zuilika was; and those who were watching saw Anita jump up with a pair of steel handcuffs on her wrists, just as Dollops vaulted up over the veranda rail and appeared at one window, whilst Petrie appeared at another, Hammond poked his body through a third, and the opening door gave entrance to Superintendent Narkom.
"Then your interest in the affair, Major, may be said to be a double one." "More, sir, a triple one. I have a rival in the shape of my own son. He, too, wishes to marry Zuilika, is madly enamoured of her; in fact, so wildly that I have always hesitated to confess my own desires to him for fear of the consequences.
Having nothing when he returned to England, and being obliged to cover up his identity by assuming another name, Ulchester, after vainly appealing to his father for help on the plea that he was now honourably married and settled down, turned again to the stage, and, repugnant though such a thing was to the delicately-nurtured woman he had married, compelled Zuilika to become his assistant and to go on the boards with him.
No wonder that she bent forward, full of eagerness, full of the dreadful fear that Frankish feet had crossed the threshold, Frankish eyes looked within the sacred shrine. "Well, don't you know," went on Cleek, without taking the slightest notice of anything, "just as I was going past that door I picked up a most remarkable thing. Wonder if it's yours, madam?" glancing at Zuilika.
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