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At the sound of his own voice actually uttering these sinister words, but not in the police-station, the poor fellow wakes us, guesses from the bewildered manner of the passengers that he must have spoken the words aloud, and very quickly takes advantage of the conductor's call, "Saint-Philippe Pantheon Bastille " to alight, feeling greatly confused, amid general stupefaction.
Steingall," said Clancy. "But I have never even heard of Mr. Steingall," she protested. "What right have you or he to take me away from my work to a police-station? What wrong have I done to any one?" "None, I believe." "Surely I have a right to some explanation." "If you insist I am bound to answer." "Then I do insist," and Winifred's heightened color and wrathful eyes only enhanced her beauty.
As he spoke he thought of the grey, old, unpainted house, and of his brother-in-law with his stocking-feet on the stove- hearth, and his mother's bloomers; he thought of his arrest, and his night in the police-station, his trial, and the Wayfarer's Lodge; and he wondered that he could think of such things and still look such a girl in the face.
All that we'll attend to at once." But on going round to the village police-station they found that Stafford's ideas had already been largely anticipated. The news of the strange gentleman's mysterious disappearance had spread like wild-fire through Scarhaven and the immediate district during the previous evening, and at daybreak parties of fisher-folk had begun a systematic search.
The next moment she had slammed the door, and Gabriel Chestermarke glanced at his partner. "Annoying!" he said. "A most unpleasant young woman! I should have preferred not to tell the police until well, at any rate, tomorrow. We really do not know to what extent we are but then, what's the use of talking of that now? We can't prevent her going to the police-station." "Why, really, Mr.
"It seemed to me," I said, "that the man was neither more nor less than a prisoner there in the hands of those who, for some reason or other, are his enemies." "That," she admitted, "is fairly obvious; what of it?" "Well," I said, "the most straightforward thing for me to do, I believe, would be to go to the nearest police-station and tell them all I know." She laughed softly.
But explanation had been fruitless. Gertie had even threatened a revelation of the facts of the case at the nearest police-station, and the Major had been forced to more manly tactics with her. He had not used a stick; his hands had served him very well, and in the course of his argument he had made a few insincere remarks on the mutual relations of Frank and Gertie that the girl remembered.
He had already two counts against him, disorderly conduct and abduction, and he had no desire to add uselessly a third, that of resisting an officer, which seems the greatest possible crime a man can commit and escape hanging. Oh, for a mettlesome nag! There would be no police- station for him, then. Police-station! Heavens, what should he do?
Snagsby, sitting up with her head in a perfect beehive of curl-papers and night-cap, who has dispatched Guster to the police-station with official intelligence of her husband's being made away with, and who within the last two hours has passed through every stage of swooning with the greatest decorum. But as the little woman feelingly says, many thanks she gets for it! Esther's Narrative
The other policeman was waiting outside, and between his two custodians he walked, sick at heart, and faltering in courage, longing only to get out of the reach of the curious, critical eyes that turned on him from every side, and beyond the sound of that pitiful whimper of the faithful little friend as it followed him step by step to the very door of the police-station.
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