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"And further," smiled the investigator, "I recall that I expressed great admiration for Marryat's conception of a homicide in the matter of Smallbones and the hag. The weapon used by Smallbones, it turns out, was identical in character to the one used by Sagon." "A bayonet," cried Pendleton. "By George! So it was." Just then Stumph announced Allan Morris.
Perhaps he came to Christie Place with the intention of informing Sagon of the opportunity that then presented itself. Or it might be that he had hopes of somehow over-reaching his companion in crime." "His lurking about would seem to point rather in that direction," said Pendleton. "And his preferring to enter the lodging house without ringing also indicates some such idea.
Morris here, whom the man did not suspect of being a lodger. "To prove a theory that I had formed, and which I have mentioned in a vague sort of way," went on Ashton-Kirk, "I asked Sagon why he had used a bayonet. And it turned out as I had thought.
I'm the only one as takes lodgers." "Are there any Italians in business in the block, or employed in any of the business places?" Mrs. Marx again shook her head positively. "Not any." "You speak of a Mr. Sagon. Of what nationality is he?" "Oh, he's French, but he's lived a long time in Antwerp. That's where he learned the diamond business. And he must have lived in other places in Europe; Mr.
"I always prefer to finish my work in my own way," said the investigator. "Osborne, as soon as he heard of Locke, through Sagon, wanted to take up the trail. But I convinced him that he'd better leave it to me." Pendleton clapped on his hat. "I'm with you," said he, "but where do you expect to find him?"
When he descended to Morris's rooms, the two criminals thought he had gone to make his usual visit to his friends. Sagon says he almost lost his nerve when the Italian confronted them on the stairs." "But here's a thing I've not been able to puzzle out. According to your notion and you may have proved it since, for all I know Locke was not in the showroom during or after the murder.
Locke, even at the time of his meeting Sagon, was looking for someone to aid him in gaining possession of the Morris plans. The work-shop which we saw beside Locke's house contained a monoplane in course of construction; but there was something lacking which he felt Morris's plans could supply; and so he was anxious to get hold of it by hook or crook.
"I have rooms for nine. Just now there are seven. But only four are steadies Mr. Hertz, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Sagon and Mr. Spatola. Mr. Hertz is an inspector of the people who canvass for the city directory; he took the parlor after Mr. Spatola gave it up. He drinks a little, but he's a perfect gentleman for all that. Mr.
Spatola says he has spoken of them often." Just then there came from below the sound of a heavy voice, singing. The words were French and the intonation here and there was strange to Ashton-Kirk. "Who is that?" he asked. "It's Mr. Sagon," replied the woman. "He's the greatest one for singing them little French songs." "Ah, I have it," said Ashton-Kirk, after a moment. "He's a Basque, of course.
"Sagon, whose purpose from the first was murder, was not at all averse to combining it with something else. He took the room at Mrs. Marx's place, after he had perceived that an entrance could probably be made at Hume's by way of the scuttle. The well dressed 'business guys' that the machinist on the first floor spoke about to us, were no doubt Locke, who frequently called upon Sagon, and Mr.
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