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down to nine thousand guineas. For this amount he was to give us a
guarantee written that the job that he has sold us was a genuine Rembrandt,
what it represented Maria Vanrenen of Haarlem, and that he had
buys him/it direct, without doubt or it questions, from that good lady
descending to Gouda, in Holland.
You/he/she was done in excellent way. We systematized the perfection thing. We had a
constable on call in our rooms to the Métropole, and we established
what the Dr. Polperro was to call to the hotel to a certain fixed time
to sign the guarantee and to receive his/her money. A regular accord on
you play stamped paper you/he/she was unsheathed among us. To the named duration
her "party of the first part" it came, later having already given ends us
possession of the portrait. Charles drew a cheque for the amount
state of accord on, and it signed him/it. Then he gave him/it to the Doctor.
Polperro as soon as you/he/she has grabbed to him. Me taken above in the meantime, my place from
the door, while two men in suits of plan, detectives from the
police-station, was standing as man-servants and it looked at the windows. Us
feared so that not the impostor, once he had the cheque, you/he/she should shift
us somehow, as he had already done in Nice and Paris. The moment
he had pocketed his/her money with a smile of triumph, I advanced to him
quickly. I had in my possession a pair of handcuffs. Before he knew
what was happening, I had slipped them on his/her wrists and guaranteed
them rightly, while the constable one advanced in before. "We have
You this duration!" I cried. "We know you it is who, the Dr. Polperro. You
it is--Colonel Clay, alias Señor Anthony Herrera, alias the Reverend
Richard Peploe Brabazon."
I never saw some man so surprised in my life! He was suddenly
amazed. Charles thought that he is had to wait for to get in clear way
street immediately, and that this ready action on our behalf had taken
the so a lot of individual from surprise whether to simply demolish him/it. He looked fixed
around him as if him he didn't realize really of what was happening.