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It still reeked of stale drink and tobacco. "What's the good of coming to a place like this?" Hamar demanded, as soon as he had freed himself from Kelson's clutches. "We can't get breakfast here." "Matt's mad, that's what's the matter with him," Curtis added in disgust. "Let's get out." He turned to go then, halted and stood still. He appeared to be listening. "What's up with you?" Hamar asked.
This notion so tickled Kelson's fancy that he fairly burst into a fit of laughter, in which I and the rest of the party faintly joined, from very weakness, for most of them had not heard what was said. Even O'Carroll himself imitated us. Suddenly he stopped.
Kelson's way in future for the next six months at any rate after that time you may see him as often as you like and I will give you as a wedding present a cheque for twenty thousand pounds!" "Twenty thousand pounds! You are joking!" "I'm not. I vow and declare I mean it. Is that a bargain?" "I will certainly think it well over," Lilian Rosenberg said, "and let you know my decision later on."
Curtis laughed coarsely, and Kelson hid his smiles in the cat's coat. A neighbouring clock now began to strike twelve. "Look alive, Leon!" Curtis cried, nudging Kelson's elbow. "Look alive or it will be too late. The Unknown is mighty particular to a few seconds. Let me operate on you. I've always fancied I was born to use the knife that I've really missed my vocation.
Thank you! I will go now. What is your fee?" "I trust, madam, you are pleased," Kelson said in great distress. "Will you kindly take your fee and let me out," Gladys demanded, as he nervously placed himself in her way. "Thank you. Good morning!" And as she swept regally past him and down the stone passage, Hamar came out of his room and passed by her on his way to Kelson's office.
But Kelson's appearance, no less than his marvellous knowledge of her life, and character dumbfounded her she was simply paralysed into admission; and before he left her, Kelson had added another thousand dollars to his hoard. That evening, close to the Academy of Science in Market Street, he saw a lady get out of a taxi and quickly enter a pawnbroker's. Her whole life at once rose up before him.
Arrived at the Golden Lion they went straight up to Kelson's room, where with more curiosity than he quite cared to show, Gifford settled himself to hear what the other had to tell him. "I dare say you noticed how worried Muriel looked all dinner-time," Kelson began.
To Kelson's delight he heard that Muriel Tredworth and her brother were coming over next day to stay with the Morristons for another dance in the neighbourhood and a near meet of the hounds; so he, warming to the Morristons, chatted away in all a lover's high spirits. "By the way," he said presently, as they sat over tea, "rather an extraordinary thing has happened at the Golden Lion."
"I'll just show him," she said to herself, "what that uncivil tongue of his can do. He shall see that it can do him infinitely more harm than all Kelson's love-making. For one thing I'll spoil his chances with Gladys Martin; and I wonder if I could make use of what I know about him, as a means of getting friendly again with Shiel. At all events I'll try."
Seven days later, Hamar again knocked at Curtis's and Kelson's door and walked in. A faint sigh of relief escaped him. "I see we are all right so far," he said. "I wondered whether I should find you both flown, or lying stretched in the icy hands of death. Have you experimented?" "We have," Curtis said. "We've done our best. In what way, we prefer not to say."
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