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Then, resolved, in accents of determination, "Stand up, you hound!" he cried. "Back to the wall there!" and thrust the weapon under the burglar's nose. The move gained instant obedience. Mr. Anisty could not reasonably hesitate in the face of such odds. "And you," Maitland continued over his shoulder to the girl, without removing his attention from the burglar, "into the alcove there, at once!
It was the illustrations that alternately saddened and maddened the young man: the said illustrations comprising blurred half-tone reproductions of photographs taken on the Maitland estate; a diagram of the library, as fanciful as the text it illuminated, and two portraits, side by side, of the heroes, himself and Anisty, excellent likenesses both of the originals and of each other. Mr.
"Good afternoon," responded the masquerader, with an assumed abstraction, inwardly congratulating himself upon having hit upon a restaurant where the real Maitland was evidently known. There were few circumstances which he could not turn to profit, fewer emergencies to which he could not rise, he complimented Handsome Dan Anisty.
"You have been most kind," she told him in a tired voice. "Thank you from my heart, Mr. Anisty," and made a move as if to relieve him of his charge. "Is that all?" he demanded blankly. "Can I say more?" "I ... I am to go no further with you?" Sick with disappointment, he rose and dropped to the sidewalk anticipating her affirmative answer.
But certainly there must have arisen some difference of opinion between Anisty and the girl, to have drawn from her that frantic negative Maitland had heard, to have been responsible for the overturning of the chair, an accident that seemed to argue something in the nature of a physical struggle; the chair itself still lay upon its side, mute witness to a hasty and careless movement on somebody's part....
Mutely eloquent, he turned back the lapel of his coat, exposing a small shield; at which Maitland glanced casually. "Very well," he consented, bored but resigned. "Fire ahead, but make it as brief as you can; I've an engagement in" glancing at the clock "an hour, and must dress." "I'll detain you no longer than is essential.... Of course you understand how keen we are after this man, Anisty."
And if in the heat of chase he had for an instant forgotten her, now he remembered; and at once the capture of Anisty was relegated to the status of a matter of secondary importance.
"I was passing," the new voice took up its plaintive remonstrance, "and the watchman called me in and said that you were telephoning for me " "Damn the interfering fool!" interrupted Anisty. "But what's this insanity, Anisty? What's this about a woman? What " The new-comer's tones ascended a high scale of fright and rage. "Lower your voice, you ass!" the burglar responded sternly. "And "
Maitland's cool retort was lost upon her. What matter? If they disbelieved him, persisted in calling him Anisty, in natural course they would undertake to search the flat. And if she were found.... Oh, she must spare him that! She had given him cause for suffering enough.
Had she not more than hinted that such was the case, that his example, his exploits, had fired her to emulation however weakly feminine?... He saw her before him, dainty, alluring, yielding, yet leading him on: altogether desirable. And so long had he, Anisty, starved for affection!... "I am sure you must be dying for a smoke." "Beg pardon!"
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