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"
Colonel
Armstrong
was
an
Englishman
--
a
V.C.
.
He
was
half
American
,
as
his
mother
was
a
daughter
of
W.
K.
Van
der
Halt
,
the
Wall
Street
millionaire
.
He
married
the
daughter
of
Linda
Arden
,
the
most
famous
tragic
American
actress
of
her
day
.
They
lived
in
America
and
had
one
child
--
a
girl
--
whom
they
idolized
.
When
she
was
three
years
old
she
was
kidnapped
,
and
an
impossibly
high
sum
demanded
as
the
price
of
her
return
.
I
will
not
weary
you
with
all
the
intricacies
that
followed
.
I
will
come
to
the
moment
,
when
,
after
having
paid
over
the
enormous
sum
of
two
hundred
thousand
dollars
,
the
child
's
dead
body
was
discovered
,
it
having
been
dead
at
least
a
fortnight
.
Public
indignation
rose
to
fever
point
.
And
there
was
worse
to
follow
.
Mrs.
Armstrong
was
expecting
another
child
.
Following
the
shock
of
the
discovery
,
she
gave
birth
to
a
dead
child
born
prematurely
,
and
herself
died
.
Her
broken-hearted
husband
shot
himself
.
"
"
Mon
Dieu
,
what
a
tragedy
.
I
remember
now
,
"
said
M.
Bouc
.
"
There
was
also
another
death
,
if
I
remember
rightly
?
"
"
Yes
--
an
unfortunate
French
or
Swiss
nursemaid
.
The
police
were
convinced
that
she
had
some
knowledge
of
the
crime
.
They
refused
to
believe
her
hysterical
denials
.
Finally
,
in
a
fit
of
despair
,
the
poor
girl
threw
herself
from
a
window
and
was
killed
.
It
was
proved
afterwards
that
she
was
absolutely
innocent
of
any
complicity
in
the
crime
.
"
"
It
is
not
good
to
think
of
,
"
said
M.
Bouc
.
"
About
six
months
later
,
this
man
Cassetti
was
arrested
as
the
head
of
the
gang
who
had
kidnapped
the
child
.
They
had
used
the
same
methods
in
the
past
.
If
the
police
seemed
likely
to
get
on
their
trail
,
they
had
killed
their
prisoner
,
hidden
the
body
,
and
continued
to
extract
as
much
money
as
possible
before
the
crime
was
discovered
.
"
Now
,
I
will
make
clear
to
you
this
,
my
friend
.
Cassetti
was
the
man
!
But
by
means
of
the
enormous
wealth
he
had
piled
up
and
by
the
secret
hold
he
had
over
various
persons
,
he
was
acquitted
on
some
technical
inaccuracy
.
Notwithstanding
that
,
he
would
have
been
lynched
by
the
populace
had
he
not
been
clever
enough
to
give
them
the
slip
.
It
is
now
clear
to
me
what
happened
.
He
changed
his
name
and
left
America
.
Since
then
he
has
been
a
gentleman
of
leisure
,
travelling
abroad
and
living
on
his
rentes
.
"
"
Ah
!
quel
animal
!
"
M.
Bouc
's
tone
was
redolent
of
heartfelt
disgust
.
"
I
can
not
regret
that
he
is
dead
--
not
at
all
!
"
"
I
agree
with
you
.
"
