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Camber," I replied with sincerity; "and Ah Tsong has remained with you ever since?" "Ever since," she echoed, shaking her head in a vaguely pathetic way. "He will never leave me, do you think, Colin?" "Never," replied her husband; "you are all he loves in the world. A case, Mr.
Thus the gathering had broken up, Inspector Aylesbury returning to Market Hilton to make his report and to release Colin Camber and Ah Tsong, and Wessex to seek his quarters at the Lavender Arms.
I handed him a card as I spoke, and suddenly addressing him in "pidgin," of which, fortunately, I had a smattering: "Belong very quick, Ah Tsong," I said, sharply, "or plenty big trouble, savvy?" "Sabby, sabby," he muttered, nodding his head; and leaving me standing in the porch he retired along the sparsely carpeted hall.
Powis, who for the past two years had acted as housekeeper at the Guest House and never taken a holiday, was sent away recently to her married daughter in London. See what that means? Her room is at the back of the house, and her evidence would have been fatal. Ah Tsong, of course, is a liar. I made up my mind about that the moment I clapped eyes on him. Mrs. Camber is the only innocent party.
If you are going to defend him at the Assizes, I don't envy you your job, Mr. Harley." He was blatantly triumphant, so that the fact was evident enough that he had obtained some further piece of evidence which he regarded as conclusive. "I have detained the man Ah Tsong as well," he went on. "He was an accomplice of your innocent friend, Mr. Harley." "Was he really?" murmured Harley.
"I thought my heart was broken, for something told me my father was dead. This was true." "What!" I exclaimed. "You don't mean " "I don't know, I don't know," she answered, brokenly. "He died on his way to Havana. They said it was an accident. Well at last, Senor Menendez offered me marriage. I thought if I agreed it would give me my freedom, and I could run away and find Ah Tsong."
"I was in the midst of a most important passage, and I should probably have taken no steps in the matter but that Ah Tsong knocked upon the study door, to inform me that my wife had been awakened by the sound of the shot. She is somewhat nervous and had rung for Ah Tsong, asking him to see if all were well with me." "Do I understand that she imagined the sound to have come from this room?"
The Chinaman was watching me, that strangely pathetic expression in his eyes, and: "Tell your mistress that I quite understand and will write to her," I said. "Hoi, hoi." Ah Tsong turned, and ran swiftly off, as I pursued my way back to Cray's Folly in a mood which I shall not attempt to describe. I sat in Paul Harley's room.
"You see," said Mrs. Camber, smiling in her naive way, "we only have one servant, except Ah Tsong, her name is Mrs. Powis. She is visiting her daughter who is married. We made the poor old lady take a holiday." "It is difficult to imagine you burdened with household responsibilities, Mrs. Camber," I replied. "Please forgive me but I cannot help wondering how long you have been married?"
Just as I arrived at this point of vantage the lamp was extinguished, but not before I had had a glimpse of the only occupant of the room the man who had extinguished the lamp." "Who was it?" I asked, in a low voice. "It was a Chinaman." "Ah Tsong!" I cried. "Doubtless." "Good heavens, Harley, do you think " "I don't know what to think, Knox.
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