The Owl Taxi. Footner Hulbert
smooth-shaven, kindly-looking; looked like a Spanish-American. By Gad! they were all Spanish, weren't they?"
The girl's face gradually sharpened with anxiety now.
Greg went on: "There was a valise under the body; that's gone too."
"Like that you saw in the hotel up-town?" she asked breathlessly.
"The very same! I never thought of it!"
A low cry escaped the girl.
"He had an odd-looking ring on; octagonal red stone with characters cut in it."
"My uncle!" she cried despairingly. "I suspected it! They have done for him! I was too late!" She covered her face with her hands.
Greg gazed at her in silent sympathy.
The hands came down; the soft face hardened. "No time for mourning now. Since I couldn't save him, I mean to avenge him!"
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