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"Do you know what has become of Patrick Deever?" "All I know is this: I was passing the grounds of the hospital Monday evening and stopped just by the wall. The reason I stopped was that I heard Pat Deever inside, talking very loud. He called somebody an old fool and swore at him." The witness paused. He seemed to be a good deal excited.
"They're still reading the Old Testament there." Several weeks later Eddie Deever announced, quite breathlessly, to Rigby that he was going over to visit Droom in his Wells Street rooms.
Meanwhile we will send a messenger for the witness, John Flint, whose testimony seems to me to be of the greatest importance." "Proceed just as you wish," said Byrnes. The messenger was summoned, and dispatched. While they waited for him Nick reviewed in the presence of the superintendent and Deever the evidence against Jarvis. Some of it, as the reader knows, was news to Deever.
As Nick made the bold assertion of his power to produce Patrick Deever alive, both Chick and the superintendent looked at him with something as near doubt as anybody who knew Nick Carter could feel in any of his statements. They both saw that Deever felt sure of his brother's escape, and they could not help seeing that there was many chances in favor of it. But Nick was undismayed.
We shall have to work down to that strong man before the case is proven." Nick looked significantly at Lawrence Deever. That look was understood. "You're a liar and a scoundrel," screamed Deever, beside himself with rage. He sprang upon Nick. Nobody raised a finger to interfere. The superintendent and Chick calmly awaited the inevitable issue. Flint dared not go to the assistance of his patron.
It was impossible to tell whether the earth there had recently been disturbed. Deever seized a spade and began to dig. He was a man of enormous strength, and he worked furiously. The two men who had brought the tools joined in the work, but they did less than half as much as Deever alone. In an incredibly short time the hole was four feet deep.
He resolved to find out what was going on inside that garden. "The wall here is pretty high, as you see, but with the help of a piece of board he climbed up so that he could look over. Now, Haskell, tell us just what you saw." Chick and Haskell had come up just as Deever finished his introduction to the story. "I saw Dr. Jarvis digging," said Haskell. "How did you know it was he?" asked Nick.
"And Deever's man I got a glimpse of him struck me as a liar in the first degree. I took him for a man Deever had hired, in order to hurry up his vengeance on Dr. Jarvis." "But as they told the same story, and Prescott can have no connection with Deever or the other man, it must be true." "Right; but the meaning of it " Chick paused. Suddenly a flash came from his eyes. "I have it!" he cried.
"Never mind those books, Eddie. Thank you for helping me. Come in some other time. You fellows I mean you pack the rest of these and then I'll tell you what to do next. Come in, Graydon." Eddie Deever took his departure, deeply insulted because he had not been introduced to the newcomer. Graydon, somewhat bewildered, followed Droom into his father's consultation room. He looked around inquiringly.
Between them and the river was a large piece of ground nearly as wild in appearance as it was a hundred years ago. Many trees and bushes grew upon it. "This place," said Deever, "is a sort of lovers' walk. Any pleasant evening in summer you can see dozens of couples walking down that path. "Haskell was here Monday evening with a young lady.
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