Earl Derr Biggers

Name: The Agony Column — Chapter 6
Author: Earl Derr Biggers

The Agony Column — Chapter 6 (1916)

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“The Agony Column — Chapter 6”, published in 1916, is a work by Earl Derr Biggers. It explores elements such as Scotland Yard, Hughes and Bray.

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Earl Derr Biggers, The Agony Column — Chapter 6 (1916)

“ So there is no time to wonder; no time to speculate as to the future, as to the colonel's sudden turn against me or the promise of his whisper in my ear. I shall, no doubt, spend the night behind those hideous, forbidding walls that your guide has pointed out to you as New Scotland Yard. And when I shall write again, when I shall end this series of letters so filled with— The constable will not wait. He is as impatient as a child. ”

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Earl Derr Biggers, The Agony Column — Chapter 6 (1916)

“ I can see, when I close my eyes, Broadway at midday; Fifth Avenue, gay and colorful, even with all the best people away; Washington Square, cool under the trees, lovely and desirable despite the presence everywhere of alien neighbors from the district to the South. I long for home with an ardent longing; never was London so cruel, so hopeless, so drab, in my eyes. For, as I write this, a constable sits at my elbow, and he and I are shortly to start for Scotland Yard. I have been arrested as a suspect in the case of Captain Fraser-Freer's murder! ”

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Earl Derr Biggers, The Agony Column — Chapter 6 (1916)

“ Lieutenant Norman Fraser-Freer has just told me that he killed his brother, and I was on the point of taking down his full confession.” “Indeed!” replied Hughes calmly. “Interesting—most interesting! But before we consider the wager lost—before you force the lieutenant to confess in full—I should like the floor.” “Certainly,” smiled Bray. “When you were kind enough to let me have two of your men this morning,” said Hughes, “I told you I contemplated the arrest of a lady. I have brought that lady to Scotland Yard with me.” ”

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Earl Derr Biggers, The Agony Column — Chapter 6 (1916)

“ You are clever—it will not be hard.” She gave him a black look and went out. Bray got up from his desk. He and Colonel Hughes stood facing each other across a table, and to me there was something in the manner of each that suggested eternal conflict. “Well?” sneered Bray. “There is one possibility we have overlooked,” Hughes answered. He turned toward me and I was startled by the coldness in his eyes. “Do you know, Inspector,” he went on, “that this American came to London with a letter of introduction to the captain—a letter from the captain's cousin, one Archibald Enwright? ”

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Earl Derr Biggers, The Agony Column — Chapter 6 (1916)

“ This is all news to me.” “Very well,” smiled Hughes. “The bet is off if you like.” “No, by heaven!” Bray cried. “It's still on, and I'll win it yet. A fine morning's work I suppose you think you've done. But are we any nearer to finding the murderer? Tell me that.” “Only a bit nearer, at any rate,” replied Hughes suavely. “This lady, of course, remains in custody.” “Yes, yes,” answered the inspector. “Take her away!” he ordered. A constable came forward for the countess and Colonel Hughes gallantly held open the door. “You will have an opportunity, Sophie,” he said, “to think up another story. ”

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Earl Derr Biggers, The Agony Column — Chapter 6 (1916)

“ Ours has been an honorable name, Colonel; you know that—a long line of military men whose loyalty to their country has never before been in question. I thought my confession would end the whole nasty business, that the investigations would stop, and that I might be able to keep forever unknown this horrible thing about him—about my brother.” Colonel Hughes laid his hand on the boy's shoulder, and the latter went on: “They reached me—those frightful insinuations about Stephen—in a roundabout way ”

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Earl Derr Biggers, The Agony Column — Chapter 6 (1916)

“ You became enraged. You saw him and him alone between you and the fortune you needed so badly. Then—I am only supposing—you noticed on his table an odd knife he had brought from India—safer—more silent—than a gun. You seized it—” “Why suppose?” ”

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