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He fumbled and pressed and pulled, and in a couple of minutes he had the satisfaction of seeing the floor under the well rise and reveal the head of a ladder leading down into the darkness below. "Here we are," he called softly to Laroche, who was searching at the other side of the room. The cellar into which the two detectives descended was lined with timber like that at Ferriby.
A fruit seller was crying his wares along the platform, and just before we started from Laroche breakfast was preparing on board the train; I thought a basket of French grapes the grapes that grow in the open air, not the leathery hot-house grapes filled with lumps of glue that we eat in England would pass the time. I got out and bought a basket from him.
Had it not been for Nicholas, he would soon have left the field to his opponents. Upborne by the conductor, he did manage to endure two rehearsals. The evening after the second, however, found him, haggard and white-faced, in the old apartment, pleading with Rubinstein, in the presence of Laroche, to give the whole thing up, to strike his name from the programme.
PRESENTING myself at Nettlegrove Hall toward sunset, to take charge of Miss Laroche, I was met by an obstacle in the shape of a protest from her aunt. This good lady had been informed of the appearance of Captain Stanwick in the park, and she strongly disapproved of encouraging any further communication with him on the part of her niece.
You are here, detained all of you" he spoke to the whole room "under suspicion. A ghastly crime has been perpetrated by some one among you " "Do not be too sure of that," interposed the irrepressible General. "Who else could be concerned? The train never stopped after leaving Laroche," said the detective, allowing himself to be betrayed into argument.
It's quite different from working a place like this." "Quite," Willis answered rather testily. "I don't like it either, but what can we do?" "I'll tell you what I should do." Laroche leaned forward and checked his points on his fingers. "That lorry had just been unloaded.
At 11.20 my telegram will leave Laroche; papa will receive it at half-past twelve. And I'll bet you ten louis that at Dijon or Mâcon I'll find in the wire screen of the station a telegram addressed to me, and worded thus: 'Return; no longer question of Antwerp marriage. Papa's telegram will be brief, because he is saving and suppresses unnecessary words. Will you take the bet?"
When, twenty minutes after the hour on the night named, the curtain rose, disclosing to the chorus a house packed to the doors, the composer's box reserved for him contained only the two Rubinsteins, Balakirev, Kashkine, and Laroche.
A talk followed in voices too low for me to hear outside the room, and then the Captain approached the door. I got out of his way, feeling very uneasy about what was to come next. I could not presume to question Mr. Varleigh. The only thing I could think of was to tell the young lady's aunt what I had seen and heard, and to plead with Miss Laroche herself to make peace between them.
This being opened, revealed a cavity containing a pipe connected to the tank and fitted with a stop-cock and the half of a union coupling. "The pipe which connects with that can't be far away," Laroche suggested. "We might have a look round for it." The obvious place was the wall of the office, which ran not more than three feet from the vehicle.
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