Professor Stewart has, for some months past, been out at the Temple of
Denderah, that cyclopean pile which Cleopatra built for herself, and
though from time to time vague reports have found their way into the
papers of important discoveries close to that famous edifice, yet, truth
to tell, we are endeavouring to keep the actual extent of the
discoveries as private as possible for the present. All I can say is
that ancient jewels, worth many thousands of pounds, taken from the spot
have already reached London--jewels, ornaments, and heart scarabs which
once adorned the person of Egypt's most gorgeous queen.
But it is of my own sweet-faced queen that I think the most--she who
sits here in silent love beside me at Upton End as I now pen these final
lines. We have already been man and wife for eight months, and, after a
delightful honeymoon spent beside the Nile, during which we paid a
visit, of course, to Cleopatra's temple, where Professor Stewart was
superintending operations, have returned home and settled down in peace
and happiness--a rural bliss, perfect and entire, that will last always.
The hated name of Harvey Shaw is never mentioned between us. And little
wonder, indeed. Within a month after his flight from Lydford, two men,
one a foreigner, called at night at a lonely cottage near Hexworthy, far
away on wild Dartmoor, and asked to see the tenant, a gentleman who had
recently taken the place furnished.
The broad-speaking, old Devon housekeeper went upstairs to inform her
master of his visitors, but she found the door locked. Shaw, for it was
he, had recognised the voice of Victor Tramu, and knew instantly that he
had at last been run to earth.
The second visitor, a well-known officer from New Scotland Yard, rushed
upstairs and called upon the accused to open the door, but on doing so
they heard the report of a revolver, and, bursting in, found the
assassin of poor Guy Nicholson lying shot through the head and quite
dead.
It appeared, too, that on the day following Harford's flight Ridgehill
Manor was found by the police to be tenantless, and Earnshaw and his
clever wife have not yet been found. The police, however, are confident
that, possessing only slight funds, they must be heard of again ere long
at their old game of passing forged notes to Continental money-changers.