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SYNOPSIS
Tiny Carteret was a free easy going
young man extremely popular
with both men and women and
and with his income of five thous
and a year enabled him to live in
an up-todate apartment in the city
of London. He received a letter
one morning from a friend, Ron
ald Standish, which bore a post
mark Grand Hotel, at Territet.
on the Lake of Geneva. Standish
appealed to him to meet him at
once as he needed someone who
had steady nerve, could use a re
volver and could use their fists
if necessary. Gillson from
Home Office calls Tiny and
goes there before leaving.
CHAPTER I
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fellow, this
any lack of
But there
when rea!
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’ll get down to brass tacks. You will
go by the 10,4'5 train from Victoria
your seat is booked in Pullman S.2.
Take the Golden Arrow to Paris:
then go to Philippe’s Resturant in
the Rue Danou. You know it?”
“Can’t say I do, Colonel.”
“You will f t one of the most
delightful restaurants in Paris. Tbe
homard a la maison is one of the
wonders of the world. It is a small
place, but travelling as you are by!
the Golden Arrow, you
Icertainlly be -the first
that you will have no
getting n table.” A
“If there is, I’ll mention your
name.”
“Under no circumstances will you
do anything of the sort, Carteret,”
said the other quietly. “Under nc
circumstances are you to mention to
a soul that you have seen me to-day
Do you remember that French notice
in the war —‘Mefeiz vous. Taisez
vous. Les oreilles de l’ennemi volis
ecoutent.’ ”
He smiled
astonishment
"My dear
“don’t think
atic. But in our trade the first rule
and the last rule are all the same.
Never say a word more than is nec
essary. And to mention any name
there would not only be unnecessary
but might be suicidal. You don’t
I suppose do you, that I am giving
Per" you these detailed instructions mere-
| ly to ensure that you have a good
dinner?”
“Well—no/? laughed 'Ijinj^ ‘‘I
don’t. But you must remember
Colonel, that this sort of work is
I a new one on me. Anyway what is
The
he
cop-
know?
Gillson.
with a
fre-
I
I
I
iwill alsimost
arrival, so
trouble over
a little at the look of
on Tiny’s face,
fellow,” he continued.
I’m being melodram-
“Weil since I haven’t been
ped in a night club raid, Colonel, I
can hazard a pretty shrewd guess,”
answered Tiny -with .a grin.
The other man smiled faintly.
“That’s a mattei’ for Scotland
Yard. Incidently you were having a
pretty good time at the Fifty-Nine
last Tuesday.”
“How the devil do you
weren’t there, were you?”
“I was not,” laughed
Nature has endowed with
nasal organ which renders me some
what conspicuous. So I do not
quent clubs of that sort.”
“Then how did you know?”
sisted Tiny.
“Had you been stopping in Lon
don,” said the other quietly, “now
that I know you are a friend of
Standish, I should have given you a
word of warning about that club.
“You assume I am not stopping gOjng t0 happen when I’ve got down
on then,” said Tiny.
“Naturfa'lly,”’ answered
“A man with fifteen caps would gather verbally or in writing: which
hardly be likely to.” | j q0 110^ .^now, and exactly when I
“Oh! that’s rot, Colonel. But you know. If in writing commit it
stll haven’t told me how you knew^0 memory and destroy the paper.
I was there.”
“I’vt got a .list, my dear boy of ev
ery single soul who was in that club
that night. Your waiter gave it to
me.”
“Well, I wish,
had concentrated
ing and less on
slopped soup all
“Seeing it was the first time he
had waited I don’t suppose he was
too bad,” said the other
bad spot that, Carteret:
sore. I don’t mean they
out of hours: that by
is nothing. But it is the
He paused and lit a cigarette. “Well
I wouldn’t be surprised if in the
course of the next few weeks you
didn’t find yoursefl back there again
—shall we say professionally.”
“This is all deuced intriguing,
Colonel,” said Tiny. “Can’t you be
more explicit?” j
“All in good tme, my dear fellow
Let us first get down to the imme
diate future. I assume you are leav
ing to-morrow.
“Quite right,”
“Provided I can
Colonel Gillson
in his desk.
“I’ve got them
calmly, “And your ticket as well.”
“The devil you have,” spluttterea
'Tiny, half inclined
“And supposing I
ing tomorrow.”
The older man
steadily for a moment or
“Then I should have made a
bad mistake in my judgment of
man nature,” he said quietly,
mistake which would have
appointed me greatly.”
“Thank you, sir,” answered Tiny
all his irritation gone. “That’s a
very decent thing to say.”
“Now then,” said the other “We
Gillson. J' to the homard a la maison?”
“A message will be given to you
either verbally or in writing: which
the damned fellow
more on his wait-
maiking a list. He
over my trousers.”
quietly. ‘‘A
a festering
sell liquor
comparison
centre. . ”
answered Tiny,
get reservations.”
opened a drawer
all here,” he saia
to be
hadn’t
looked
annoyed,
been
at
two.
go-
him
very
: hu-
“A
dis-
Norway
Pino
Syrup
9.10‘ train for
reserved you a
and it is more
tha’t when you
“Who will give me the message?”
asked Tiny.
“A man,” said the other. “Don’t
ask me to,tell you what he will look
like, for I haven’t the faintest idea.
Have you got it clear so far.”
“Perfectly,” said Tiny.
“When you.’ve had your dinner
you will go to the Gare de Lyons in
time to catch the
Switzerland. I have
berth in a sleeper,
probable, Carteret,
come to inspect that reservation and
all that goes with it you will con
sign me to the nethermost depths of
the pit.”
“What do you mean, -Colonel?”
said the bewildered Tiny.
"You will find out in due course,”
answered the other with a grin.
“But there is one thing, young fell
ow, and don’t you forget it.” The
grin had departed. “Under no cir
cumstances are you to alter your
bunk—not even if the rest of the
coach is empty.
“Right you are, sir. I can’t pro
fess to understand what it is all
about at the moment, but I know
an order when I hear one. I sleep”
—he glanced at the paper in his
hand—“in Number 8 bunk. Hullo!
the ticket is only as far as Lauanne.
“That is where you get out,” said
Gillson. “ A room has already been
taken for you at the Ou'chy Palace
Hotel. Go there, and then Standish
will take over the ordering of your
young life.”
He rose, to show that the inter
view was over.
“But, dash it
ed Tiny, “can’t
idea as to what
Gillson shook
“You will find out all
good for you to know, at the
when it is good for you to know.
Believe me, my dear
reticence doesn’t imply
confidence on my part,
are. certain occasions
genuine ignorance is worth untold
gold. Standish is playing the liana
at the moment, and you are a very
important card, It must be left to
him to decide when he is going to
play you. But if it is any comfort I
can tell you one thing. I’d give a
' year’s screw if some divine Provi
dence would blast away a lump of
my cursed nose. For with that land
mark gone I could have faked my
face sufficiently to go in your place.’
“That sounds all right, anyway,”
laughed Tiny. “Any messages for
Ronald?”
And as he asked the question the
telephone rang on the dealt.
“Wait a moment,” said
onel, “Hullo!”
Tiny watched him idly as
there with the reciver to
The lean hatchet face seemed a froz
en mask, so expressionless was it;
only the eyes were glowingly alive
At last the voice from the other end
ceased and Gillson spoke.
“Can you come up at once,
ter? You can. Good.”
He replaced the instrument
then stood motionless for more
a minute staring out of the window
“Any message for Ronald,” he
said at length. “Yes, Carteret; there
will be. You ’can tell him that Jeb
son has been murdered in the same
way as the others. Wait a little. Dex
ter is coming and we’ll hear about
it. incidentally you know Dexter
You’d better dun him for another
pair of trousers.”
“You mean he was the waiter at
the Fifty-Nine?” \
But the other appeared not tc
have heard. With his hands in his
pockets he was pacing up and down
the office, his head thrust foi*ward
his chin sunk on his chest, whilst
Tiny leaned against the desk smok
ing. He did not speaki again: he was
busy with his own thoughts. So
I there was murder in the business,
was there?. . . And more than one
at that. And almost as if it was an
echo of what was passing through
his mind Colonel Gillson suddenly
ceased his restless pacing and spoke
“Don’t be under any
young Carteret. We’re up
the big stuff this time with
geance.”
He swung around as a
sounded on the door.
“Come,” he called, and
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said1
Dex-
the
lialf-past
headache
go on so
the
a man
entered whom Tiny recognized at
once as the waiter.
“Morning, Dexter,” said Gillson
“Bad affair this. You know Mr. Car
teret, I think. He tells me you spoilt
his trousers for him.”
The new-comer grinned at TinJ’-
’ “Sorry about it, Mr. Carteret. If
only you’d stuck to kippers it woula
have been all right.” He grew ser
ious again and turned to Gillson.
“You’re right, sir: it is a bad affair
Am I to . . .” He glanced hesitat
ingly at Tiny.
“Carry on, Dexter,
now one of us.”
“Well, sir, Jebson
was our permanency
Nine. He’s been there
three months and up to yesterday he
was convinced that not a soul sus
pected he was not a genuine waiter.
I saw him at lunchtime and he told
me so. He’s been waiting on two of
the private rooms upstairs, and for
over a fortnight nothing of any im
portance has taken place. Just the
usual young fool with the usual
woman. But last night he told me
he was expecting something of in
terest. That little swine Giusepp!
who owns the place had been run
ning in and out of one of his two
rooms the whole morning cursing
and swearing and saying that this
was wrong and that was wrong—a
thing he never did for his ordinary
clientele. And then Jebson, happen
ing to pass Giuseppi’s office heard
him on the telephone ordering mass
es 'of orchids. Mauve orchids,” he
added meaningly.
Once again he paused and glanced
at Tiny, as if doubtful whether to
proceed.
“Mr. Carteret undertsands, Dex
ter, that any name he may hear
mentioned In this office IS invid*
late as if it was in confession,”
Gillson quietly.
“Very good, sir,” continued
ter. “He at once appreciated
possible significance: the flowers
had been mauve orchids the time be
fore.”
“Mauve orchids,” said Tiny slow
ly. “Mauve orchids! Good Lord! it’s
impossible.”
“What is impossible?” asked Gill
son quietly.
“Nothing, sir, nothing,
only a wild idea
through my mind,
coincidence.”
“The longer you .
my boy, the more
that nothing is impossible,”
Gillson. “Well, Dexter: was it she?
“That’s the, devil of it, sir—<wc
don’t know. Jebson did—but Jebson
is dead. We don’t know if it was
Lady Mary.”
, Gillson’s eyes were fixed on Tiny
—a faintly quizzical look in them.
“Nothing is impossible, Carteret,
repeated quietly. “So that was
idea that had flashed through
mind.”
'No: no Colonel—nothing of the
sort. Heavens! Nothing would in
duce Mary Ridgeway to go to a pri
vate room at Fifty-Nine.”
“And yet she was therezsix weeks
ago alone with a man,” said Gillson
“Damn it, Colonel,” said Tiny
angrily, “this is going beyond a joke
Mary is a great personal friend of
mine.”
“Do you really imagine, CarteT-
et,” said the older man coldly, “that
I should take the trouble to make a
statement of that sort about any
woman, whether she was a friend of
yours, whether she wasn’t, unless
I knew it to be true? Well, Dexter?”
“That’s all sir. That’s the sicken
ing part of it.
has been done
Tiny took a
“Look here,
son. “I apologize for my remark-.
But you cannot mean that even if
Lady Mary was there you
in any way responsible for
Jebson’s death?”
Most
Gillson
crossed
person
son’s death, is the man with whom
Lady Mary—if it was she—was hav
ing supper. And he is the man we
want, or perhaps I’ should say—one
of the men we want.” . *
Tiny sank into a chair, his brain
whirling. The whole thing was too
preposterous. And yet — was it?
Statements made in this quiet office
seemed to carry with them a definite
conviction Which shook him. And
Gillson had quietly said in the most
matter-of’fact voice that six weeks
ago she had been to the Fifty-Nine
alone with a mail. If so—-what about
last night.?
He had been dan'eing with her at
a house in Berkeley Square, and it
had struck; him more than once dur
ing the evening that she seemed un
usually distraite—so muth so, in
fact, that he had pulled her leg
that
iJlust a
It was
flashed
strange
are in this job
you will realize
said
mai-
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he
the
his
<(•
Jebson, poor devil
in.”
step forward.
sir,” he said to Gill-
hold her
this man
answeredcertainly not,”
at once. "iSuch an idea never
my brain for a second. The
who is responsible for Jeb-
about it. And then at
eleven she had pleaded a
and left. Nothing much to
far, it was true: but it was
ter of the mauve orchids that
ried him and that—he cursed
self now for not having kept a bet
ter guard .on his tongue—had made
him say what he did, Mary adored
mauve .orchids: all her friends knew
it, half the world knew it
evidence of aunt Tabitha in
Snippets.
And yet the whole thing
too preposterous. She was undoubt
edly an unconventional girl, but
there were certain things at which
she would draw a very fast line. And
it seemed to Tiny that dining in a
private room at a place like
Fifty-Nine alone with a man
most emphatically one of them,
less she had to; unless she had no
alternative. He lit a cigarette
thoughtfully, and then conscious
that Gillson was eyeing him shrewd
ly he pulled himself together. His
sudden remark could easily be at
tributed to the matter of mauve or
chids: for the moment at any rate
he saw no necessity to mention what
he knew of her movements the pre
vious night,
and
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Dexter was speaking
Tiny forced himself to listen.
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