Achmed Abdullah

Name: The Remittance-Woman — Chapter 3
Author: Achmed Abdullah

The Remittance-Woman — Chapter 3 (1924)

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“The Remittance-Woman — Chapter 3”, published in 1924, is a work by Achmed Abdullah. It explores elements such as Liu Po-Yat, Pailloux and vase.

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Achmed Abdullah, The Remittance-Woman — Chapter 3 (1924)

“ She went down-stairs and entered the private office of Monsieur Paul Pailloux, the manager, a pudgy Parisian exile who carried his black beard ahead of him like a battering-ram and who bowed before her with opulent superciliousness.
“Ah—Miss Campbell!” he said. “That bill—it was a mistake——”
“It isn’t about the bill.”
“No? Then—what can I do for you?”
“You can send for the police.”
“Police? Ah—your delicious American sense of humor——”
“Cut it out! There’s nothing humorous in murder!”
“Murder? Ah—nom de Dieu! Murder?” ”

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Achmed Abdullah, The Remittance-Woman — Chapter 3 (1924)

“ And, followed by De Smett, Pailloux led the way to her suite.
“Look!” he said, as they entered.
Marie looked, looked again, doubting, for a moment, her sanity. No body was there, no blood spots, no signs of struggle, of murder. She went into her bedroom and glanced at the dressing-table. The jewel-box was in its old place, unopened.
No doubt, she said to herself, the manager himself, with the help of the detective and most likely other employees, had utilized the half-hour she spent in the office to remove the body and all traces of the tragedy and straighten the rooms. ”

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Achmed Abdullah, The Remittance-Woman — Chapter 3 (1924)

“ The person who accuses you——”
“Who is that person?”
“You will be told at the police station—in jail!” cried the detective roughly.
“Oh—jail, is it?”
“Please,” said Pailloux, “do not force me to go that far. Give up the vase——”
“I haven’t got it!”
“You will be searched at the station—and if they find the vase——”
“Miss Campbell,” cut in the detective, “I want to warn you that everything you say——”
“Will be used against me?” She laughed. “How gorgeously like home, sweet home! America—ah—that reminds me—I want you to notify the American consul at once, Monsieur Pailloux.” ”

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Achmed Abdullah, The Remittance-Woman — Chapter 3 (1924)

“ Who is the friend you mean? D’Acosta?” Liu Po-Yat shook her head negatively. “The mandarin?”
“No”—the dying woman gurgled out the words—“not friends—those—like other will be.” Suddenly she revived a little. She lifted her right hand in a supreme spasm of energy; then, even as her body was stiffening, she pointed into the bedroom.
Marie rose, crossed the threshold. She found her jewel-box upset, its contents strewn over the table itself, a few scattered on the floor.
Her hand went to her girdle. The little Tchou-fou-yao vase—that’s what the murderers had been looking for! ”

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Achmed Abdullah, The Remittance-Woman — Chapter 3 (1924)

“ Rapidly she stepped up to it and pushed the vase into the farthest corner among a lot of papers.
She had already straightened up when the door opened and Pailloux and the house detective entered.
“Well?” asked Marie. “What did you find out?”
Pailloux smiled.
“We found that you were mistaken. No murder has been committed.”
“But—Liu Po-Yat—I saw her——”
“Doubtless a hallucination, Miss Campbell. Mr. De Smett and I”—pointing at the detective—“went to your rooms, and”—he spread eloquent hands—“we found nothing.”
“N-nothing?” Marie stammered.
“A hallucination.” Pailloux smiled. ”

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Achmed Abdullah, The Remittance-Woman — Chapter 3 (1924)

“ The two men looked attach other silently, questioningly.
“Do I win?” asked the girl.
“You do!” growled the detective.
“Good! I’ll ring up the consul.”
“Let me do it,” said the manager.
“All right, my dear Gaston!” laughed the girl. “Politeness first in a Frenchman—eh?—even when he is as crooked as a bull-pup’s tail!”
The manager winced, was going to say something, thought better of it, and unhooked the telephone receiver while Marie stood over him, telling him word for word what to say:
“Hello? Mr. Coburn? Pailloux talking. A young American girl has been arrested. ... A Miss Campbell. ”

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Achmed Abdullah, The Remittance-Woman — Chapter 3 (1924)

“ Or, perhaps, came the next thought, her mother, who had died in giving her birth, here in China, where her father had married her, whence he had returned white-haired and rather bitter and taciturn—her mother, whom her father never mentioned, or her grandfather?
But murder had been committed, and she realized that she must notify the hotel management. ”

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