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They rush at me, they knock me down, they make their escape, but I recognise one of them it is Mister the young Archman, who I have many times seen at The Sphinx Cafe yes. Well, and then on the floor I find a letter." He grinned wickedly again. "Have you the letter that I find Mister Barca?" "Sure," said Gentleman Laroque and reached into his pocket.
And, besides, there was the letter! If he, Jimmie Dale, had been in time even to have prevented Gentleman Laroque from sinking a bit into the safe, the letter would have counted not at all but now it counted to the extent that it literally meant life and death. Who had it? Not Clarie Archman that was certain.
And then Gentleman Laroque laughed gratingly. "Hello, Sonnino!" he said coolly. "A little late, aren't you? You've kept me stalling for the last five minutes. Know my friend Mr. Martin Moore, alias Mr. Clarie Archman? Clarie, this is Signor Niccolo Sonnino, the proprietor of this joint."
He was here well ahead of the other, there was no possibility, granting even the start the boy had had, that Clarie Archman could have made the trip uptown in the same time. It was more likely that the boy might even linger a long while in misery and indecision before he came home. That was why he, Jimmie Dale, had dismissed Benson and the car for the night, and
We didn't intend to give you one, but we don't want to be too rough on you, so if you want to get out that way, and will agree to keep on queering your father's game if he starts it over again, all right. But you want to understand that we hold just as big a club over your father's head the other way." "White! Playing white! Oh, my God!" Clarie Archman had lurched up from the chair to his feet.
There was a click of an electric-light switch, a cry from Clarie Archman, the inner room was ablaze with light, and Jimmie Dale had edged forward again out of the hallway Sonnino, revolver in hand, was standing just over the threshold facing Gentleman Laroque and the assistant district attorney's son. Then silence a silence of seconds that were as minutes.
On Sixth Avenue there is a little store where one rents boxes for private mail, and where questions are never asked is it not so, my very dear young friend?" The boy was staring in a demented way into Sonnino's face, but he did not speak. "Aw, hand it to him straight!" Gentleman Laroque broke in roughly. "I don't want to hang around here all night. Here, Archman, you listen to me!
Jimmie Dale drew back for a second time that night into the hallway. A step, slow, faltering, unsteady, like that of a man blinded, passed out from the inner room, and passed on down the length of the front room and the door opened and closed. Clarie Archman, with God alone knew what purpose in his heart, was gone.
But otherwise his lips thinned otherwise, he did not know. Otherwise, there was promise of strange, grim work before daylight came, work that might lead him out of necessity to the role of Smarlinghue, and as Smarlinghue anywhere! He did not know; he knew only one thing that, at any cost, if it lay within any power of his to prevent it, David Archman should not live a broken man.
But the smile was gone as he leaned back in his seat after giving Benson his directions speed, and a corner a few blocks away from Chatham Square he was not so sure that it was all right. It was entirely a question of time. Given the time and the opportunity Niccolo Sonnino out of the road, for instance given twenty minutes ahead of Clarie Archman and Gentleman Laroque, it would be simple enough.
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