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He looked up the stairway, but, all being in darkness, was unable to detect anything. Therefore he called out: "Is that you, Leroux? Is anything the matter?" "Matter, Exel!" cried Leroux; "there's a devil of a business! For mercy's sake, come up!" His curiosity greatly excited, Mr. Exel mounted the stairs, entering the lobby of Leroux's flat immediately behind the owner and Dr.
Finally, however, she switched off the light, and, going out on to the landing, descended to the door of Henry Leroux's flat. In reply to her ring, the maid, Ferris, opened the door. She wore her hat and coat, and beside her on the floor stood a tin trunk. "Why, Ferris!" cried Helen "are you leaving?" "I am indeed, miss!" said the girl, independently. "But why? whatever will Mr. Leroux do?"
"No, no, I won't have him murdered, Simon," he protested, laying a trembling hand on Leroux's shoulder. "He has almost as good a roulette system as I have." We must have stood confronting each other for fully a minute. Then Leroux dropped his hands and smiled sourly at me. "You seem temporarily to have the advantage of me, M. Hewlett," he said.
"The truth?" began the latter "Do you mean that you know where she is"... "If I knew that," replied Dr. Cumberly, "I should know everything; the mystery of the Palace Mansions murder would be a mystery no longer. But I know one thing: Mrs. Leroux's absence has nothing to do with any love affair." "What!" exclaimed Denise Ryland. "There isn't another man... in the case? You can't tell me"...
I can assure you, Sir, that the news of this summary administration of justice sent another cold shiver down my spine, and I marvelled if indeed Leroux's surmises were correct and if a respectable tradesman like Aristide Fournier would take such terrible risks even for the sake of heavy gains.
So we strapped on our snow-shoes, and I made a pack and put three days' supplies of food in it and fastened it on my shoulders, securing it with two straps from the harness. I rolled the rug into a bundle and tied it below the pack; and thus equipped, we left the dead beasts and the useless sleigh behind us for Leroux's satisfaction, and set out briskly upon our march.
"I was uneasy, for it did not look to be like a love-match, and I knew that M. d'Epernay had the reputation of a profligate in Quebec, where he was hand in glove with Philippe Lacroix, one of M. Leroux's aids. But a priest has no option when an expression of matrimonial consent is made to him in the presence of two witnesses. So I married them. "My duties took me to Quebec.
"It is indeed," said Sowerby, gloomily, pressing the bell-button at the side of Henry Leroux's door. The door was opened by Garnham; and these two, fresh from the noise and bustle of London's streets, stepped into the hushed atmosphere of the flat where already a Visitant, unseen but potent, was arrived, and now was beckoning, shadowlike, to Mira Leroux.
Dunbar sprang forward and leaned out over the ledge, looking to right and left, above and below. A sort of square courtyard was beneath, and for the convenience of tradesmen, a hand-lift was constructed outside the kitchens of the three flats comprising the house; i. e.: Mr. Exel's, ground floor, Henry Leroux's second floor, and Dr. Cumberly's, top.
Jacqueline knelt by his side. She paid no attention to me, except that once she asked for water. Pierre brought her some from the spring in a tin cup, and when she raised her head I could see that her lip was swollen from the blow of Leroux's fist. The old man's hands were moving restlessly. Jacqueline bent over him and whispered, and he stirred and cried out petulantly.
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