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suddenly a thought struck me which turned my heart to ice it was i who had first testified that the chain was on the door when charlotte opened it that morning
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later every morning she visited agents and then spent the rest of the day inspecting apartments then evenings were devoted to summing up the experiences of the day and preparing to start afresh on the morrow
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immediately the time-table seemed to shrink into insignificance and the coroner tossed it aside and asked to see my next exhibit a little chagrined at the apparent unimportance of my clues i produced the handkerchief
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and as i found i must put my questions very definitely to get any information whatever i made myself say did you then ever desire to kill him
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might she not in the wakeful hours of the night have concluded that she could not stand her uncle's tyranny a day longer and in a sudden frenzy been moved to end it all i pushed the thought from me but it recurred again and again
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so we stayed and laura with her usual tact managed to keep up a desultory conversation on various unimportant subjects occasionally the talk became more or less personal and i learned that george lawrence had previously lived with his uncle and cousin in this same apartment
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now if your people want to arrest me let them come and do it but until they do kindly spare me further questioning which i do not admit to be within your rights allow me to wish you good morning
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i've no doubt of it said stone pleasantly and i accept your invitation with pleasure will you wait for me a minute while i telephone before i had time to reply he had slipped in through a doorway at which hung the familiar blue sign
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i went home to dress for dinner and still having the pin in my mind i transferred it from my frock coat to my evening coat as i stood looking at it while in my room it occurred to me that were it not for the head of the pin i might push it into my flesh so far as to hide it
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i considered that honors were even therefore when she decided we would move i made no serious objection at least not in advance had i known what apartment hunting meant i should have refused to leave our gramercy park home
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lawrence smiled as he answered i'm not in the witness box now janet but i don't mind telling you that i dined and spent the evening at the warings oh did you cried janet
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those dark eyes show a smouldering fire that seems to me quite capable of breaking into flame i rather fancy miss pembroke can hold her own against any verbal onslaught of her uncle
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that it would not be surprising if they had held revengeful thoughts toward him however i could not go so far as to accuse any one of them
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i want to go to george lawrence's apartment and make a search of his rooms i have not a definite reason for doing this but i feel that it may lead to something i cannot say i suspect george lawrence of the crime
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whether miss waring was always so self-poised and at her ease or whether it was fleming stone's magnetic manner that made her appear so i did not know
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not to my knowledge but my uncle has several boxes in the bank and in the safe deposit company and it may belong to one of them do you know anything of this key mr lawrence pursued the coroner turning to the young man
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yes replied the coroner holding up to view the large square of linen and it is of fine texture and dainty finish and beautifully hand-embroidered said miss pembroke as she rose from her seat and took the handkerchief in her hand
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then i'm glad she can i declared as she has to stand such unjust tyranny i hope she has sufficient self-assertion to resent it
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call leroy came in looking exceedingly handsome and attractive indeed i had forgotten what an unusually good-looking man he was he had that combination of dark eyes and hair slightly silvered at the temples which is so effective in middle age
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not to tell her of the tragedy but to inquire further concerning the key since you do not know him mrs altonstall let us not discuss him will you tell me how you lost possession of this key since it is yours
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fleming stone glanced at the key and the handkerchief with the briefest attention he picked up the ticket stubs and the time-table but after a moment's scrutiny he laid them down again murmuring as if to himself clever very clever
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if not the most important and it cannot be scrutinized too closely or examined too minutely for sooner or later it is almost always certain to expose the criminal
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not so fast inspector i said feeling a grim delight in bringing him up with a round turn george lawrence can prove a complete and perfect alibi attested by responsible witnesses
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so you know mr lawrence mr stone was saying mr george lawrence oh yes said the girl and i have read in the paper of a dreadful tragedy in his family yes his uncle i believe you have seen mr lawrence recently miss waring
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i think those things are not in our province doctor post we have performed our duty we have learned the method and means of robert pembroke's death we have made our report and our duties are ended
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as you say you don't know which way to start mr lawrence suppose we take up the clue of the torn telegram do you think that j s who sent that message might have kept his appointment and come last night although no one knew it
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i was uncertain whether or not to tell janet of my decision to consult fleming stone and all sunday morning i hesitated about the matter it was late sunday afternoon before i concluded that it would be better to inform her of my plan
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i thought george would come up this afternoon she said as she stood looking idly out of the window where her slight black-robed figure made a lovely picture against the background of the gold-colored silk curtain
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and if you'll come home with me i'll guarantee that my sister will give you quite as satisfactory a luncheon as you could obtain in the best hotel in the city
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embroidered screens made a background for high carved chairs and inlaid tabourets the rugs were antique and thick the curtains conventionally draped and the pictures on the walls were paintings of value
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i was struck with a sudden thought for some reason the detective even yet suspected george and all i said seemed to strengthen rather than allay his suspicion i would therefore give the suspected man a chance to speak for himself
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i did fasten all of the windows all of them charlotte did unfasten some of the windows between seven and eight this morning she did unchain and open the door at about eight o'clock those are all the facts i know of i did not kill uncle robert and of course charlotte did not
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was the girl a coquette was she leading me on purposely and enjoying my bewilderment at her sudden transitions of mood at any rate she should not fool me twice in the same way not again would i offer her my friendship to have it scornfully rejected
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did you do so yes sah an still he don't holler out ugly like he always do den i got awful scart an i begged miss janet to go in his room
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further minute search of the floor revealed nothing whatever but an ordinary hair-pin with two women in the household this was not an astonishing find but i kept it among my other acquisitions
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he was a large man of genial and charming manner and possessed of a personal magnetism that seemed to invite confidence and confidences
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after fleming stone had told me he would discover the criminal that day i couldn't help imagining a sudden bringing to book of some burly ruffian whose face was well known in the rogues gallery but unfamiliar to those in my walk of life
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suddenly he drew himself together with a bold shrug as if preparing for a last desperate effort your deductions are true in part he said i did change the clock as you so diabolically discovered
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as mr ross seemed inclined to talk about the pembroke matter i went on to discuss the other clues he announced his intention of calling in a professional detective but was waiting for leroy's return before doing so
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it irritated while it fascinated me and i wondered in what direction his suspicions would next turn did he tell you he asked the nature of this alibi
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and with a politeness that would have been admired by the most punctilious of critics pray do not be alarmed miss waring he began at the legal aspect of your callers
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well then it must have been wednesday night that i was at the hardings to dinner yes i was i dined at the home of james s harding and that you can verify from him now are you satisfied
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i picked it up and its large size proved it to belong to a man though slightly crumpled it was quite fresh and in the corner three small letters w s g
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he is a man of brilliant mind of remarkable talent but he is crafty and even unscrupulous in his legal manoeuvers it may be that this was partly because of his deference to my uncle's wishes
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and yet when it came to a question of evidence what could be more incriminating than that chained door as a proof against janet and so mr buckner went away leaving the rest of us to discuss the new turn events had taken
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i am a bachelor of long standing and it's my opinion that the way to manage women is simply to humor their whims and since laura's husband died i've been rather more indulgent to her than before any way the chief thing to have in one's household is peace
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yes i wanted money said janet you learned that from charlotte's evidence you are the strangest girl i said staring at her
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could it be possible i thought that these two were really glad rather than otherwise then i remembered miss pembroke's piteous weeping and as i looked at mr lawrence and noted his white face and clenched hands i concluded
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she was fond of concerts and theatres of going shopping and calling and yet had never been allowed the money or the freedom to pursue these pleasures my heart sank as i realized how everything the girl said would tell against her should she ever be called to the witness box
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i want to make my confession to my cousin i owe it to no one else but although lawrence said this he never once moved his eyes from fleming stone's face and seemed really to make his confession to him
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that's the case in a nutshell declared george but i confess i don't know which way to start although i had made up my mind not to refer to the letter from jonathan scudder which crawford had shown me yet i thought i would introduce the subject of j s
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this was a mean speech on my part and utterly unfounded but i was so angry at janet for shielding leroy's name that i cared little what i said
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moreover my sister's change of base somewhat surprised me she it had been who denounced miss pembroke as being deceitful melodramatic and untrustworthy
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he may have had a dozen motives for all i know i said rather harshly for i was beginning to realize that if she cared enough for leroy to proclaim herself guilty my hopes were small indeed he may have wanted that money himself and come back to get it
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we have sent for him replied miss pembroke but he is out of town as she spoke the girl's cheeks flushed to a delicate pink and my heart sank as i began to fear that she was deeply interested in the handsome lawyer
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yes sah dat is i was after nine o'clock i went out befo dat but i come in sharp at nine as miss janet had tole me to there were no guests here when you returned no sah no comp'ny miss janet and her uncle dey sat in de drawin room conversationin
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laura accompanied me into the hall as she often does and chattered a few parting inanities as we stood by the elevator
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it may be one said stone and the only way to find out is to see it of course i must also examine the apartment and then if necessary question some of the parties concerned but at this moment i have little doubt in my mind as to who killed robert pembroke
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oh mr leroy never wanted money he's a very rich man who did want the money then did you i was fast forgetting my manners and my determination to win janet's confidence by kindliness but i had not expected to have leroy thus flung in my face
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surely this is reason enough for the criminal to take the broken pin away the inspector nodded his head sure he agreed with the spectacular hat-pins the women wear nowadays it
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i glanced at the girl as she sat beside laura on the sofa though not a connoisseur in women's clothes i am yet not so absurdly ignorant as many men are
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it might have proved an easy thing to trace however it is necessary that i search all the rooms of this apartment for it this speech sent a shock through my whole being
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he's too old he exclaimed when i asked his reasons just because he's a handsome rich widower all the women are crazy after him but janet isn't she detests him
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the unruffled calm and the straightforward gaze that met my own eyes so frankly was so convincing of her absolute veracity that just for an instant the thought flashed through my mind that it might be merely the perfection of acting
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so i knock again an again an when he don't holler out cross-like i mos know sumpin's wrong so i went and tol miss janet dat her uncle didn't answer back an she say oh pshaw he's asleep knock again
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particularly he paused and with a grim smile doctor masterson completed the sentence particularly cantankerous yes sir he was said lawrence candidly
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i am so sorry i said that you resent my questioning you about these things for surely miss pembroke you must understand and it is my duty to make you understand
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he was a member of various clubs and seemed to be fond of card-playing and billiards in moderation i also learned though i think through an inadvertence that he dabbled a little in wall street
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i knew this to be true from miss pembroke's own words and at the risk of seeming intrusive i pursued the subject further mr pembroke desired the match didn't he
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and i suppose i did overdo matters when i accounted for every minute too carefully but though it was a manufactured alibi and though i had reasons of my own for wanting to account for my movements that night
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i discovered at once that lawrence did not like him although his denunciation of leroy was not so severe as janet's indeed lawrence's chief grievance against the lawyer seemed to be leroy's desire to marry janet
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he has the cold even tones of the two speakers and the quiet expressionless faces seemed to rob this strange conversation of all hint of personality
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i couldn't help a sinister conviction that when he telephoned it had been a message to headquarters authorizing the surveillance if not the arrest of somebody
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and i realized that the mere fact of miss pembroke's excessive calm might mean only a hiding of excessive emotion inexorably the coroner went on did your uncle promise you a large sum of money if you would marry mr leroy
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but it was easily seen that this was a mere form and he himself quite evidently intended to be the real director of affairs we must find out who was the intruder doubtless a professional burglar who committed this awful deed
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then i can't feel real regret that mr pembroke is gone i said except that the manner of his taking off is so horrible do you suppose that it is the work of burglars
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i'd rather like to see that girl in a towering rage she must look stunning otis said my sister smiling you're becoming altogether too deeply interested in miss pembroke's appearance she is a good-looking girl but not at all the kind we want to know
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you won't tell me the simple things i ask and then you fire a statement like that at me what do you mean that you really wanted a large sum of money
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that everlasting chain why do people have chains on their front doors any way there was one on our own door but we never used it and i wished to heaven that janet pembroke had never used hers
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unpardonable carelessness she said and i saw that the sweet placid face could assume an expression of indignation upon occasion that madam you must say to mr leroy i am sorry to have troubled you in the matter and i thank you for your courtesy to me
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i think however it is a matter of easy explanation graham leroy is also mr pembroke's lawyer and he must have dropped the key there while calling on mr pembroke
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this would seem to indicate that it had not been in the room long and moreover had it been left there several days before it would have been found by charlotte or by janet and laid aside to be restored to its owner
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i'm glad he didn't i said involuntarily i'm glad to have you to myself she looked up startled for i never before expressed a hint of my personal feeling toward her
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subject confounded queer about that key he said but he said it thoughtfully more as if talking to himself than to us it is queer i said eagerly taking up the subject
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he listened attentively while we told him all about it now and then asking a question but expressing no opinions his face grew very grave indeed to me it seemed almost sinister and a little mysterious
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while i couldn't for a moment imagine janet guilty of crime or assistance or connivance thereat there was much about the girl that i could not understand
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she must have acted much the same occasionally her composure was broken by a sudden quick gesture or an abrupt impulsive remark
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because it was love at first sight on my side was no reason why it should be on hers so i only determined to win her if possible and to be careful that she should not yet discover my feelings toward herself
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yes he replied laying down the gloves and hat he held apparently he was just about to go out and i had fortunately arrived in time
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i thank you mr landon for the interest you have shown in my affairs and i am sure you will excuse me if i beg of you not to trouble yourself further about me
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i was glad to hear this for the national theatre though entirely reputable was of the music hall class and it pleased me that janet pembroke did not incline to that type of entertainment in response to inquiries charlotte asserted volubly
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overcome with this sudden knowledge i clasped her in my arms and realized the meaning of the tenderness in her eyes and the wistful droop of her scarlet lips you darling i murmured as i held her close you precious contradictory bit of feminine humanity
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all this shows not only cleverness and ingenuity but carefully prearranged plans where you obtained those precious clues i do not know but at a guess
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but it would have been more commendable of her to have given her uncle's unopened mail to his lawyer or to some one in charge of his estate when she spoke as i had fully expected she made no reference to the letter
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he had impressed me when i saw him that morning as one of those busybodies in the detective line who are always willing to dilate upon their clues and their deductions their theories and their inferences
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and if he wouldn't accept your efforts you certainly have nothing for which to reproach yourself yes i have she declared we had an awful quarrel last night and when uncle left me he was very angry i hate to think of our last interview
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mr ross abandoned this line of query and began a fresh subject sit here he said to charlotte indicating a seat where she could not see miss pembroke who was directly behind her now he went on remember you are under oath to tell the truth and see that you do it
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would oh what am i saying she broke off with a little gasp as if she had almost betrayed a secret but i knew he said he would give it to you and more too if you would marry mr leroy didn't he
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does an extra bathroom equal one block further west is an onyx lined entrance greater than a buttoned hall-boy are palms in the hall worth more than a red velvet hand-rail with tassels
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although i intended to think over the legal aspects and the significant facts of the case i had undertaken i found myself instead indulging in rose-colored dreams of what might happen in the future
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