But first of all, I want a bit of
corroborative evidence which I expect to get from that Hindoo snake
charmer, Pandu Singe."
"Going there first, Nick?"
"Yes; it will not take long. Then I think we shall have the strands for
a rope strong enough to hold that she-devil who murdered Mary Barton,"
grimly added Nick.
These remarks were made while the carriage containing the two detectives
was speeding through the city streets, then bright with the light and
life of the early evening.
"What a dastardly crime it was, Nick," observed Chick.
"It was the crime of a treacherous demon."
"With jealousy the chief motive, eh?"
"No doubt of it."
"Yet her venomous arrow found the wrong mark."
"That's just the size of it," said Nick. "In the light of what you saw
and heard on the stage that night, it is plain that Cervera is
passionately in love with Venner."
"Surely."
"You remember that you saw him talking with Violet Page, and then
observed Cervera in the opposite wings, angrily watching something or
somebody out of your range of view. Plainly enough, now, she was
watching Venner and the singer."
"No doubt of it," declared Chick. "And she looked fit to use a poniard
then and there.
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