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Updated: June 29, 2025
"I should have known made it my business to learn. And Dykeman has questioned you " "He has not!" indignantly. "I don't suppose he knows Worth and I are acquainted." I could have smiled at that. There were detectives' reports in Dykeman's desk that recorded date, hour and duration of every meeting this girl had had with Worth and with myself. Besides, Cummings knew.
"In te omnis domus inclinata recumbit." Lord Lilburne, seated before a tray in the drawing-room, was finishing his own solitary dinner, and Dykeman was standing close behind him, nervous and agitated.
"Then " the speech died on his lips, for at that instant a rapid stride was heard without a momentary scuffle voices in altercation; the door gave way as if a battering ram had forced it; not so much thrown forward as actually hurled into the room, the body of Dykeman fell heavily, like a dead man's, at the very feet of Lord Lilburne and Philip Vaudemont stood in the doorway!
I shall trust you with an adventure, Dykeman an adventure that will remind you of our young days, man. This charming creature I tell you she is irresistible her very oddities bewitch me. You must well, you look uneasy. What would you say?" "My lord, I have found out more about her and and " "Well, well." The valet drew near and whispered something in his master's ear.
"What d'you mean, strange way? airplane or submarine?" I growled. "He brought it," Whipple's words marched out of him like a solemn procession, "in a brown, sole-leather suitcase." "With brass trimmings," Dykeman supplemented, and leaned back in his chair with an audible "Ah-h-h!" of satisfaction. If ever a poor devil was flabbergasted, it was the head of the Boyne agency at that moment.
"That was his opinion before he quarreled with Worth. Now he " "Slandering Bowman won't get you anywhere, Boyne," Cummings said. "He wasn't here to testify at the inquest. Man alive, you know that nothing but sworn testimony counts." "I wouldn't believe that man's oath," I said shortly. "Think you'll find a jury will," smirked Cummings, and Dykeman croaked in,
Once alone, he listened appreciatively while I told him of our interview with Cummings and Dykeman as fast as I could pile the words out. "Nobody on earth like Bobs," was his sole comment. "Never was, never will be." "And now," I reminded him nervously, "there's the question of this alibi. You went straight from the restaurant to your room at the Palace and to bed there?" "No-o," he said slowly.
He settled back with a protesting air of being about to leave us, and finished squeakily, "Didn't need to prove that he had Clayte's suitcase." "Good Lord, Mr. Dykeman! You're not lending yourself to accuse a man like Worth Gilbert of so grave a crime as murder, just because you found his ideas irregular maybe reckless in a matter of money?" "Don't answer, Dykeman!" Cummings jumped in.
As soon as he was gone, Lilburne summoned his valet, who had lived with him many years, and who was his confidant in all the adventurous gallantries with which he still enlivened the autumn of his life. "Dykeman," said he, "you have let out that lady?" "Yes, my lord." "I am not at home if she calls again. She is stupid; she cannot get the girl to come to her again.
Fanny felt something like liberty, something like joy, again. She rose, and looked so pleadingly, so earnestly, so intently into the woman's face, that Harriet turned away her bold eyes abashed; and at this moment Dykeman himself looked into the room. "You are to bring us in dinner here yourself, uncle; and then go to my lord in the drawing-room." Dykeman looked pleased, and vanished.
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