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<v Speaker 1>Chapter twenty eight of The Double by Edgar Wallace. This

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<v Speaker 1>LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by Atolsharma, Winnipeg, Canada,

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<v Speaker 1>chapter twenty eight. Nobody has ever described the scene which

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<v Speaker 1>followed the real Walter Derrick's discovery that his father had

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<v Speaker 1>married again. The quarrel was a bitter one. There was

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<v Speaker 1>money behind it, for Walter was extravagant. This extravagance had

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<v Speaker 1>a curious cause. He had the same experimental mind as

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<v Speaker 1>his father, but his pet experiments cost money, since they

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<v Speaker 1>were devoted to the study of metallurgy and particularly to

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<v Speaker 1>gold recovery. He left his father's house, never to see

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<v Speaker 1>him again, and sailed for South Africa in the Steerage.

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<v Speaker 1>A year's wandering brought him to the Tanganika area and

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<v Speaker 1>to the most extraordinary adventure. For eighteen months he prospected,

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<v Speaker 1>living summer and winter in a tent, scraping enough from

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<v Speaker 1>the ground to pay his boys, and replaced the horses

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<v Speaker 1>that died like flies. And then chance brought him into

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<v Speaker 1>the company of a wanderer who had sought this thinly

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<v Speaker 1>populated region for quite another reason, Joe Cleave. This man

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<v Speaker 1>called himself and he made an agreeable companion. He was

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<v Speaker 1>at first taciturn a little nervous, and Walter Derreck had

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<v Speaker 1>the uncomfortable impression, for no particular reason, that he was

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<v Speaker 1>a fugitive from justice. But in his wanderings through northern

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<v Speaker 1>Rhodesia he had met several men into whose antecedents it

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<v Speaker 1>was undesirable to pry. Cleave was down on his luck

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<v Speaker 1>and once hinted that the Cape Town police wanted him,

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<v Speaker 1>probably for the robbery of silver for which men's had

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<v Speaker 1>been held responsible. This was one of the peculiarities of

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<v Speaker 1>the man. It seemed that time and time again he

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<v Speaker 1>escaped the processes of justice by the simple method of

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<v Speaker 1>leading suspicion to innocent men. He was a murderer, a thief,

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<v Speaker 1>a hold up man, and above all a deadly gun fighter.

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<v Speaker 1>He knew something about gold digging, and apparently had been

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<v Speaker 1>in Johannesburg for a period, and once spoke vaguely of

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<v Speaker 1>the platinum mines in the Caucases. Derek discovered that he

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<v Speaker 1>had a knowledge of several languages, but he did not

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<v Speaker 1>allow his suspicions to interfere with the amity of his

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<v Speaker 1>daily intercourse. The two men came upon a patch of

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<v Speaker 1>alluvial ground which promised to make them rich. Three months

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<v Speaker 1>later led to a disillusionment. The gold, which had been

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<v Speaker 1>plentiful in the first washings, petered out to nothing, and

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<v Speaker 1>they were thinking of breaking up their camp and going

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<v Speaker 1>their several ways when Walter, ranging the felt in search

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<v Speaker 1>of food, was attacked by an old lion. He succeeded

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<v Speaker 1>in driving the animal off, but not until he had

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<v Speaker 1>been badly mauled in the calf, an injury which led

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<v Speaker 1>to a permanent limp, a peculiar coincidence since his father

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<v Speaker 1>was similarly afflicted. It was true that lordy Brown had

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<v Speaker 1>come to his aid and carried him back to camp.

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<v Speaker 1>It was also true that Lord he had disappeared after

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<v Speaker 1>three or four days, taking with him a small bag

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<v Speaker 1>of gold that the two men had accumulated with much labor.

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<v Speaker 1>Derec became seriously ill from his wound and delirious. It

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<v Speaker 1>is probable that during this period of time he divulged

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<v Speaker 1>his identity and told the interesting criminal who was his companion,

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<v Speaker 1>the story of his father. It was certain that while

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<v Speaker 1>he was ill, letters to Derec found their way into

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<v Speaker 1>the camp, and one was undoubtedly from the old man.

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<v Speaker 1>He had almost lost his sight, could scarcely hear, and,

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<v Speaker 1>feeling the hand of death upon him, sought a reconciliation

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<v Speaker 1>with his only son. That this letter was read by

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<v Speaker 1>Cleve admits of no doubt. It was while he was

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<v Speaker 1>waiting for his companion to die that his scheme took shape.

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<v Speaker 1>He left the camp one night, believing his friend to

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<v Speaker 1>be in extremists, and carrying with him as much of

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<v Speaker 1>Deryck's goods as he could travel with. He had a

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<v Speaker 1>long tramp before him, and he needed money not only

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<v Speaker 1>to get to the coast, but to make some sort

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<v Speaker 1>of appearance in England. The ground had to be reconnoitered,

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<v Speaker 1>he had to discover something about the old man, and

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<v Speaker 1>mostly he had to be sure that theo Walter had

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<v Speaker 1>babbled to him that he had no friends. This was

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<v Speaker 1>substantially correct in this dilemma. He reached the outskirts of

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<v Speaker 1>a mining camp and found a prospector lying drunk by

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<v Speaker 1>the side of the road. There was nobody in sight,

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<v Speaker 1>and Cleave searched his pockets and was well rewarded, for

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<v Speaker 1>the man had recently sold a number of claims to

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<v Speaker 1>a Tanganika Syndicate. He was making his getaway when the

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<v Speaker 1>drunkard became dimly aware of what had happened. The first

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<v Speaker 1>intimation Cleave had that his man was alive and alert

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<v Speaker 1>was a pistol bullet that zip passed his head. He

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<v Speaker 1>shot back, dropping the man in his tracks, but he

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<v Speaker 1>had not realized that he was as near the little

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<v Speaker 1>township as he was, and there were scores of people

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<v Speaker 1>with an ear shot. He had hardly reached the cover

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<v Speaker 1>of a wood before he was under heavy fire. He

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<v Speaker 1>ran through the wood with his pursuers on his heels,

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<v Speaker 1>and flew in the only direction of which he was

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<v Speaker 1>perfectly sure, toward the camp where he had left his

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<v Speaker 1>dying friend. With the fleetest of his pursuers not a

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<v Speaker 1>hundred yards away. He came panting into the tent and

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<v Speaker 1>found Walter Derreck sitting up on the side of his bed,

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<v Speaker 1>fully dressed. Derec had no recollection of what happened. When

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<v Speaker 1>he became conscious. He was lying in the prison hospital

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<v Speaker 1>on the charge of murder and robbery. A pistol was

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<v Speaker 1>in his hand when the pursuers came up. There were

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<v Speaker 1>two exploded shells. There was the booty that he had

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<v Speaker 1>taken from the murdered man lying on the bed. Nobody

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<v Speaker 1>had seen the face of the murderer. Half dazed, Walter

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<v Speaker 1>Derreck found himself in a hot, stuffy court listening to

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<v Speaker 1>a death sentence. He had been charged in the name

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<v Speaker 1>of Cleave, a name that he accept. He himself half

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<v Speaker 1>believed that, in his delirium he had been guilty of

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<v Speaker 1>the crime, and wished to save his father's name from

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<v Speaker 1>this ignominy. It was in the second year of his

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<v Speaker 1>imprisonment the death sentence was commuted that he began to

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<v Speaker 1>piece together the fragments of recollection. He learned too why

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<v Speaker 1>he was called Cleave. On being asked his name on

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<v Speaker 1>his arrest, that was the one he gave. Probably he

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<v Speaker 1>was calling for his lost companion, but the local sheriff

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<v Speaker 1>seemed quite unaware that he had a companion with him.

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<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, Cleave had made his way to the coast,

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<v Speaker 1>leaving behind him a trail of burgled stores in Cape Town.

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<v Speaker 1>He disappeared. Two years passed in the central prison, and

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<v Speaker 1>then the real Walter Derreck gradually built up the shattered

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<v Speaker 1>pieces of recollection. He was allowed newspapers. He spent a

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<v Speaker 1>great deal of his time in hospital, and one day

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<v Speaker 1>he read in a newspaper of his father's death, and

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<v Speaker 1>underneath the photograph was the caption mister Walter Derrick, who

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<v Speaker 1>inherits an enormous fortune by the death of his late father.

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<v Speaker 1>He recognized the photograph instantly it was cleave, and then

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<v Speaker 1>the whole dastardly plot became clear. He was in prison.

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<v Speaker 1>It was impossible to prove his innocence. He tried to

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<v Speaker 1>interest the prison doctor and the chaplain. The first was

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<v Speaker 1>frankly amused, and the second was maddeningly soothing, For in

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<v Speaker 1>the jail he was regarded as being a little crazy. Indeed,

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<v Speaker 1>it was the suspicion of madness which had saved him

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<v Speaker 1>from the gallows. For three months, he plotted and planned.

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<v Speaker 1>One stormy night, when the thunder did not cease and

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<v Speaker 1>the lightning flickered incessantly, he dropped over the prison wall

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<v Speaker 1>and made his way into the wilderness. It took him

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<v Speaker 1>five months to reach Cape Town, a hundred and fifty

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<v Speaker 1>three days of privation and terror. He was half mad,

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<v Speaker 1>wholly exhausted when one night he found his way into

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<v Speaker 1>a beautiful rene de Boche garden, and fell on the

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<v Speaker 1>step of the only man who could help him. It

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<v Speaker 1>was Mary de Villiers who found him. She had been

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<v Speaker 1>a nurse in a Cape Town hospital and had recently

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<v Speaker 1>left her profession to help her father in his rapidly

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<v Speaker 1>growing business. De Villiers was the greatest detective that South

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<v Speaker 1>Africa had produced. Originally a detective inspector in Kimberly, he

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<v Speaker 1>had left the police force and opened his agency when

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<v Speaker 1>his two girls were young children. They carried the unconscious

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<v Speaker 1>man to a bed, and Henry de Villiers would have

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<v Speaker 1>rung for an ambulance to send them to the local hospital,

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<v Speaker 1>but Mary intervened. Four days later, a weak and desperate

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<v Speaker 1>man told Henry de Villiers the story told him everything,

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<v Speaker 1>including the tale of his prison breaking. De Villiers was

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<v Speaker 1>at first skeptical, but Mary, with her quick woman's intuition,

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<v Speaker 1>was assured that this wild wanderer spoke the truth. There

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<v Speaker 1>was only one proof of his identity, and there was

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<v Speaker 1>slender hope of securing this the family book he knew

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<v Speaker 1>his father had it. Knew dimly there was a concealed

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<v Speaker 1>safe in the house, and that in the safe the

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<v Speaker 1>old man kept such intimate documents as he possessed. If

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<v Speaker 1>the spurry as Walter Derrick had found the secret hiding place,

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<v Speaker 1>there was no hope. De Villiers considered the story and

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<v Speaker 1>made a few inquiries through a London agent. He himself

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<v Speaker 1>went to the scene of the crime, questioned local natives

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<v Speaker 1>and discovered that Clive had had an existence. He traced

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<v Speaker 1>the murderer's progress southward. He checked dates, and then one evening,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm taking a chance with you, Derrick. The doctors told

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<v Speaker 1>me to go on a holiday, and I think this

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<v Speaker 1>is the kind of holiday I want. It's going to

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<v Speaker 1>cost me five thousand pounds and it will probably land

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<v Speaker 1>us all in jail. My fee will be fifty thousand

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<v Speaker 1>pounds if we succeed, nothing if we fail in a

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<v Speaker 1>most businesslike manner. A remarkable document to this effect was completed,

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<v Speaker 1>came to England, and it was Mary who suggested the

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<v Speaker 1>yellow bath chair. It would keep Deryck out of sight

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<v Speaker 1>and give these four people an excuse to be together. Jane,

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<v Speaker 1>who was a year younger than her sister, was the

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<v Speaker 1>night nurse, and it was Mary who designed her for

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<v Speaker 1>a double. She was my everlasting alibi whenever I was

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<v Speaker 1>likely to be seen in London. I made absolutely sure

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<v Speaker 1>that she should be seen somewhere fifty miles away. It

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<v Speaker 1>was she who danced at the Brighton Ball. I took

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<v Speaker 1>her place ten minutes before you arrived. Poor Jane, she

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<v Speaker 1>loathed it. She is naturally nervous. And then the awful

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<v Speaker 1>it was her ring I was wearing. That is why

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<v Speaker 1>Tommy's fiancee was so affectionate by night and so cold

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<v Speaker 1>by day. I like Tommy, but I hate being pawed

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<v Speaker 1>by him. Poor dear, he was very hurt. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know when Levinsky began to suspect. We knew him rather

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<v Speaker 1>fancy until somebody told him about the family book. Old

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<v Speaker 1>Inspector Entred was the culprit, said Dick. She nodded. Even

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<v Speaker 1>before then, Perhaps he may have recognized the real Derrick

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<v Speaker 1>in the bath chair. He may have cabled to South

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<v Speaker 1>Africa to ask for information about de Villiers. Probably Lordy

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<v Speaker 1>brown told him you found Lordy Browne. She nodded again.

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<v Speaker 1>He died soon after we got him to the house.

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<v Speaker 1>When I heard his groan, I was terrified. We did

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<v Speaker 1>recognized me, of course, and asked me to send the

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<v Speaker 1>money he had in his pocket to his wife. But

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<v Speaker 1>he refused to tell me who had shot him. He

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<v Speaker 1>had the old criminal's code of never tell. Daddy asked

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<v Speaker 1>him twice to make a statement, but he refused. So

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<v Speaker 1>far as I could gather, there had been a quarrel,

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<v Speaker 1>and I am sure the lord he did not tell

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<v Speaker 1>us that he was asked to come secretly to the

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<v Speaker 1>house where Levinsky was waiting for him, perhaps to bribe

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<v Speaker 1>him to silence. When did you guess, she asked, I

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<v Speaker 1>half guessed, said Dick. When Levinski did not know that

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<v Speaker 1>his father limped on his return. The old man must

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<v Speaker 1>have been bedridden. He used to do all his business

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<v Speaker 1>That was the second jar to me. He invented her name,

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<v Speaker 1>miss Constable on the spur of the moment. What will

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<v Speaker 1>happen to him? Asked Mary. After a pause. Dick shook

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<v Speaker 1>his head. I don't know. It is going to be

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<v Speaker 1>terribly difficult to convict him. The public prosecutor will not

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<v Speaker 1>allow the charge of murder to go through. He thinks

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<v Speaker 1>the jury would fail to convict, and after that we

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<v Speaker 1>could not, of course make any other charge. He will

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<v Speaker 1>probably get a lifer. She shivered. All my childhood has

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<v Speaker 1>been spent in this atmosphere of detection. And I suppose

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<v Speaker 1>I must expected to continue all my life and Dick

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<v Speaker 1>that idea of our being married together, You and I

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<v Speaker 1>and Tommy and Jane. We've got to give it up.

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<v Speaker 1>Tommy won't hear of it. He's scared to death. He'll

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<v Speaker 1>get me by mistake. The end end of chapter twenty eight,

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<v Speaker 1>End of The Double by Edgar Wallace