IS THE CONCLUSION.
"Do you really believe that man?" asked Cane, turning to us quite coolly,
a sarcastic smile upon his lips.
He was a marvellous actor, for he now betrayed not the slightest
confusion. He even laughed at the allegations made against him. His bold
defiance utterly amazed us. Yet we knew now how resourceful and how
utterly unscrupulous he was.
"Yes, I do!" was the officer's reply. "You murdered her Highness, fearing
that she should go to her father and expose you before you could have
time to dispose of your stolen concession to him. Had she gone to him,
the police would hunt you down as Sir Digby's assassin. But by closing
her lips you hoped to be able to sell back the concession and still
preserve your guilty secret."
"Of course," remarked Frémy, "the whole affair is now quite plain. Poor
Miss Shand was drawn into the net in order to become this scoundrel's
victim. He intended from the first to make use of her in some way, and
did so at last by making her believe she had killed her alleged rival in
Mr. Royle's affection. Truly this man is a clever and unscrupulous
scoundrel, for he succeeded in obtaining a quarter of a million francs
from a reigning sovereign for a document, to obtain which he had
committed a foul and dastardly crime!"
"A lie--lies, all of it!" shouted the accused angrily, his face as white
as paper.
"Oh, do not trouble," laughed Frémy, speaking in French. "You will have
an opportunity to make your defence before the judge--you and your
ingenious accomplice, Mrs. Petre."
"We want her in England for the attempted murder of Mr. Royle," Edwards
remarked. "I'll apply for her extradition to-morrow. Your chief will, no
doubt, decide to keep Cane here--at least, for the present. We shall want
him for the murder of the Englishman, Sir Digby Kemsley."
"You may want me," laughed the culprit with an air of supreme defiance,
"but you'll never have me! Oh, no, no! I'll remain over here, and leave
you wanting me."
"Prisoner, what is the use of these denials and this defiance?" asked
Frémy severely in French, advancing towards him. "You are in my
custody--and under the law of the Kingdom of Belgium I arrest you for the
murder of Sir Digby Kemsley, in Peru, and for the murder of Stephanie,
daughter of his Highness the Grand Duke of Luxemburg." Then, turning to
his two subordinates, he added briefly: "Put the handcuffs on him! He may
give trouble!"
"Handcuffs! Ha, ha!" cried Senos the Peruvian, laughing and snapping his
brown fingers in the prisoner's face. "It is my triumph now. Senos has
avenged the death of his poor, good master!"
"A moment," exclaimed the prisoner. "I may at least be permitted to
secure my papers before I leave here, and hand them over to you? They
will, perhaps, interest you," he said quite coolly. Then he took from his
watch-chain a small key, and with it opened a little cupboard in the
wall, from whence he took a small, square deed-box of japanned tin, which
he placed upon the table before us.
With another and smaller key, and with a slight grin upon his face, he
opened the lid, but a cry of dismay escaped us, for next second we saw
that he held in his hand a small, black object, sinuous and writhing--a
small, thin, but highly venomous black snake!
It was over in an instant, ere we could realise the truth. Upon his white
wrist I saw a tiny bead of blood, where the reptile had struck and bitten
him, and as he flung it back into the box and banged down the lid he
turned upon us in defiance, and said:
"Now take me! I am ready," he cried, uttering a peal of fiendish
laughter. "Carry me where you will, for in a few moments I shall be dead.
Ah! yes, my good friends! I have played the great game--and lost. Yet
I've cheated you all, as I always declared that I would."
The two men sprang forward to slip the metal gyves upon his wrists, but
Frémy, noticing the instant change in the assassin's countenance,
motioned them off.
The culprit's face grew ashen grey, his thin jaws were fixed. He tried to
utter some further words, but no sound came from him, only a low gurgle.
We stood by and watched. He placed both his palms to his brow and stood
for a few seconds in the centre of the room. Then a paroxysm of pain
seemed to double him completely up, and he fell to the carpet writhing in
most fearful agony. It was horrible to witness, and Phrida, with a cry,
turned away.
Then suddenly he lay stiff, and stretched his limbs to such an extent
that we could hear the bones crack. His back became arched, and then he
expired with horrible convulsions, which held his limbs stiffened and
extended to their utmost limits--truly, the most awful and agonising of
deaths, and a torture in the last moments that must have been
excruciating--a punishment worse, indeed, than any that man-made law
might allow.
* * * * *
As Herbert Cane paid the penalty of his crimes the woman Petre at last
recovered consciousness.
I saw the look of abject terror upon her face as her eyes fell upon the
man lying dead upon the carpet before us.
She realised the terrible truth at once, and giving vent to a loud,
hysterical scream, rose and threw herself on her knees beside the man
whose wide-open eyes, staring into space, were fast glazing in death.
Edwards bent, and asked in a low voice whether I wished to give her into
custody for the attempt upon me.
But I replied in the negative.
"The assassin has received his just punishment and must answer to his
Maker," I replied. "That is enough. This scene will assuredly be a lesson
to her."
"She falsely accused Miss Shand, remember," he said. "She knew all the
time that Cane struck the poor girl down."
"No," I replied. "Now that the stigma has been removed from the one I
love, I will be generous. I will prefer no charge against her."
"Ah! dearest," cried Phrida, "I am glad of that. Let us forgive, and
endeavour, if possible, to forget these dark, black days and weeks when
both our lives were blighted, and the future seemed so hopeless and full
of tragedy."
"Yes," I said, "let us go forth and forget."
And with a last glance at the dead man, with the woman with dishevelled
hair kneeling in despair at his side, I took the arm of my beloved, and
kissing her before them all, led her out, away from the scene so full of
bitterness and horror.
* * * * *
To further prolong the relation of this tragic chapter of my life's
history would serve no purpose.
What more need I tell you than to say Mrs. Petre disappeared entirely,
apparently thankful to escape, and that at St. Mary Abbots, in
Kensington, a month ago, Phrida and I became man and wife, both Edwards
and Frémy being present.
As I pen these final lines I am sitting upon the balcony of the great
Winter Palace Hotel, in Luxor, within sight of the colossal ruins of
Karnak, for we are spending a delightful honeymoon in Upper Egypt, that
region where the sun always shines and rain never falls. Phrida, in her
thin white cotton gown and white sun helmet, though it is January, is
seated beside me, her little hand in mine. Below us, in the great
garden, rise the high, feathery palms, above a riot of roses and
poinsettias, magnolias, and other sweet-smelling flowers.
It is the silent, breathless hour of the desert sunset. Before us, away
beyond the little strip of vegetation watered by the broad, ever-flowing
Nile, the clear, pale green sky is aflame with crimson, a sunset mystic
and wonderful, such as one only sees in Egypt, that golden land of the
long-forgotten.
From somewhere behind comes up the long-drawn nasal song of an Arab
boatman--that quaint, plaintive, sing-song rhythm accompanied by a
tom-tom, which encourages the rowers to bend at their oars, while away
still further behind across the river, lays the desolate ruins of the
once-powerful Thebes, and that weird, arid wilderness which is so
impressive--the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings.
Phrida has been reading what I have here written, and as I kiss her sweet
lips, she looks lovingly into my eyes and says:
"It is enough, dearest. Say that you and I are happy--ah! so supremely
happy at last, in each other's love. No pair in the whole world could
trust each other as we have done. I know that I was guilty of a very
grave fault--the fault of concealing my friendship with that man from
you. But I foolishly thought I was acting in your interests--that being
your friend, he was mine also. I never dreamed that such a refined face
could hide so black and vile a heart."
"But I have forgiven all, darling," I hasten to reassure her! "I know now
what a clever and ingenious scoundrel that man was, and how full of
resource and amazing cunning. You were his victim, just as I was
myself--just as were the others. No," I add, "life, love, and happiness
are before us. So let us learn to forget."
And as our lips meet once again in a long, fond, passionate caress, I lay
down my pen in order to press her more closely to my breast.
She is mine--my own beloved--mine for now and evermore.
THE END.
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68 =A Slender Clue= Ditto
76 =Toilers of the Sea= Victor Hugo
77 =History of a Crime= Ditto
78 =Ninety-Three= Ditto
80 =Margaret Catchpole= Rev. R. Cobbold
81 =Freston Tower= Ditto
84 =The Mystery of Orcival= E. Gaboriau
85 =Detective's Dilemma= Ditto
86 =Detective's Triumph= Ditto
88 =Caught in the Net= Ditto
89 =The Champdoce Mystery= Ditto
91 =Mr. Barnes of New York= A. C. Gunter
92 =The Princess of Copper= Ditto
95 =Jane Eyre= Charlotte Brontë
97 =Looking Backward= Edward Bellamy
103 =Frank Fairlegh= Frank Smedley
104 =Alice's Adventures in Wonderland= Lewis Carroll
106 =Tom Brown's School Days= Hughes
133 =Crime and the Criminal= R. Marsh
150 =Her Splendid Sin= Headon Hill
151 =Caged= Ditto
152 =The Avengers= Ditto
160 =Lorna Doone= R. Blackmore
162 =For the Term of His Natural Life= Marcus Clarke
169 =East Lynne= Mrs. Henry Wood
171 =The Shadow of Ashlydyat= Ditto
172 =The Channings= Ditto
173 =Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles= Ditto
175 =Roland Yorke= Ditto
Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd., London, Melbourne & Toronto.
TRANSCRIBERS' NOTES
Page 6: FREMY standardised to FRÉMY; SURETE standardised to SURETÉ
Page 33: hand-bag standardised to handbag
Page 35: Placé in the phrase "in the Placé Vendôme" as in the original
Page 41: " changed to ' before You--you blackguard, and after
You've--you've killed me!
Page 42: note-paper standardised to notepaper
Page 47: anenomes corrected to anemones in the phrase "drooping red
anenomes"; manservant standardised to man-servant
Page 126: reopened standardised to re-opened
Page 127: " removed before If so, what then?
Page 148: repass standardised to re-pass
Page 150: over-burdened standardised to overburdened
Page 160: nonplussed standardised to non-plussed in His question
non-plussed me.
Page 166: arm-chair standardised to armchair
Page 202: " added after must have happened to her.
Page 210: " changed to ' before You blackguard, Cane and ' added after
why, you've killed me!
Page 218: ? after No, don't do that as in the original
Page 240: Bon jour spaced as in the original
Page 244: " added after Here is the reply,
Page 249: . added after non-plussed me for the moment
Page 257: ' corrected to " before My interests!
Page 267: " added after round of France.
Page 269: . added after I asked frantically
Page 309: Author of 108. His Little Girl standardised to Moberly
Page 314: Blank author names as in original
General: variable hyphenation of street-lamp and street lamp as in the
original