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I seed him coming round by Liverpool Street just as I went in a bar to get a drop of something." Laverick frowned. "If there is anything in this Story, Shepherd," he said, "if you are really being followed, what a thundering fool you were to come here! All the world knows that Arthur Morrison was my partner." "I couldn't help it, sir," the man declared. "I couldn't, indeed.
"Come into the office as often as you like, in reason," Laverick said, showing him out, "but not here again. Keep your eyes open, and let me know if you think you've been followed here." "There's no more news in the papers, sir? Nothing turned up?" "Nothing," replied Laverick. "If the police have found out anything at all, they will keep it until after the inquest."
"He is my solicitor," Laverick answered, "and is entirely in my confidence. If you have anything to tell me, I should like Mr. Bellamy also to hear." Bellamy, who was standing a little in the background, took his place by Laverick's side. The cashier, who knew him by sight, bowed.
I don't want to worry you," she went on, "but I feel so terrified sometimes. I feel that he must have done something bad. It was not an ordinary business trouble which took the life out of him so completely." "It was not," Laverick admitted at once.
An altogether softer light gleamed in her wonderful eyes. She was certainly by far the prettiest child he had ever seen. As yet he could not take her altogether seriously. "Thank you," she said, sinking down upon the arm of an easy-chair. "first of all, then, Arthur is here because he is my brother." "Your brother!" Laverick repeated wonderingly.
Sponge having left Laverick Wells, had, perhaps, led him a little astray with his tongue slandering an absent man being generally thought a pretty safe game; it now seemed Mr. Waffles was all wrong, and might have had his money back if he had not been in such a hurry to part with the horse.
Her brown hair was parted in the middle and arranged low down, so that at first, taking into account her obvious nervousness, he thought that she was a child. When she spoke, however, he knew that for some reason she was afraid. Her voice was soft and low, but it was the voice of a woman. "It is Mr. Laverick, is it not?" she asked, looking at him eagerly.
The building itself was irregular, presenting different sorts of architecture, from pure Gothic down to some even perfectly modern buildings; still, viewed as a whole, it was massive and imposing; and as Mr. Sponge looked down upon it, he thought far more of Jawleyford and Co. than he did as the mere occupants of a modest, white-stuccoed, green-verandahed house, at Laverick Wells.
You announce yourself as Mademoiselle Idiale's deputy, but you bring me no proof of the fact, nor, in any case, am I disposed to treat with you. You must allow me to wish you good afternoon." Lassen shook his head. "Mr. Laverick," he declared, "you are too impetuous. You force me to remind you that your own position as holder of that document is not a very secure one.
Laverick was discharged within a very few minutes, and a warrant was issued for the apprehension of Morrison. Laverick found Bellamy waiting for him, and was hurried into his motor. "Well, you see," the latter exclaimed, "we kept our word! That dear plucky little friend of yours turned the scale, but in any case I think that there would not have been much trouble about the matter.
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