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In the meantime, Sawbridge called at the captain's lodgings, and made a faithful report of all that had happened. Sawbridge and Wilson were old friends and messmates, and the captain put it to the first lieutenant that Mr. Easy, senior, having come to his assistance and released him from heavy difficulties with a most generous cheque, what could he do but be a father to his son?
Harebells and pink campion grew on the banks, and the meadows were full of ox-eye daisies; but I saw nothing besides that was in the least attractive, and certainly nothing of which I could make a picture. A family from York had come by the same train, and I had learnt from their conversation that they had engaged lodgings for a month at Runswick Bay.
My aunts knew nobody in London except one or two ladies of rank superior to their own, on whom we made formal calls, which was a sort of human intercourse that I heartily detested, as I detest it to this day. Our lodgings were in Baker Street, which, after our pure air, open scenery, and complete liberty at Hollins, seemed to me like a prison.
We always had our tea out of those blue cups when I was a little girl, sometimes in the queerest lodgings, and sometimes on a trunk at the theatre queer theatres, for that matter." It was a wonderful little dinner.
As like as not, if the Count did hunt this road, he would pass through the town without guessing you were at private lodgings." "It is the best thing we can do," said I, with a blessing upon all widows of butchers. Hugues guided us to a little street behind the church of the Trinity, and soon brought the widow's servant, and then the widow herself, to the door.
"The train being so late perhaps he grew tired of waiting. He will be here presently. But, if he should not come surely I can find a hotel?" "There's lodgings to be had. Get the station agent to show you. If you'll excuse me this is no place for a lady like you to be alone at night. It's a rough little town mostly Mexicans, miners, cowboys. And they carouse a lot.
But his private lodgings were not ready; at least, they were not what he, with his finicking Albanian notions, called ready, and, after a brief altercation with his landlady, he went off with a bag to spend the night at the Turk's Head Hotel.
It seems that he's wished to keep it a secret, and so he has purposely kept me in the dark." Sir Thomas sighed. "I understand exactly how it is," he said. "I do not see what we can do, except endeavour to get a clue through the police. By the way, Mrs Jones, you don't happen to know the names or lodgings of any of his associates? That might help us, if you did."
At last we were getting near our journey's end, and the prospect of a "lock-out" from our lodgings was looming unpleasantly near, when Jack took me by the arm and turned up a dark narrow passage. "I'm nearly certain it's got a way out at the other end," he said, "and if so it will take us right close to the square."
In a desk in a room which he uses as a private office I found more papers and documents similar to those which I had found at Krevin Crood's lodgings. I produce these there are seventeen separate papers. All are in the handwriting of the late Mr. Wallingford.
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