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Updated: June 2, 2025
This happened in the case of Philip Bommaney and younger Mr. Barter. They entered the Inn together, or left it together, or Philip ran upstairs or downstairs as Barter was in the very act of leaving or entering his chambers.
'I wanted, he said, emerging from his haze, and holding the bundle of papers nervously in both hands, 'I wanted to see your father upon very special and urgent business. 'My father? the young man answered, with a look and accent of pained surprise. 'Do you mean to say, sir, that you haven't heard the news? 'The news? cried Bommaney, feeling blindly as if some new misfortune threatened him.
If I can take to him the news that they are found, I can lift a load of undeserved disgrace from the mind of an honourable man. 'I shall be pleased to have your company, Mr. Bommaney, the Superintendent answered, touched a little by the young man's earnestness. So the three got into a four-wheeler, and bowled away to Hatton Garden, and there made entry into the chambers lately occupied by Mr.
Tie him, Mr. Bommaney, before he comes round again. I'll hold him for you. One may get good advice from the most unexpected quarter, and whencesoever good advice may come it is worth while to follow it. Phil took a dandy scarf from Steinberg's own neck, and tied him tightly, wrist to wrist Then he helped him to his feet, and set him in a chair.
Bommaney of his father's condition by that night's post he himself was naturally most profoundly anxious. In this wise he talked Bommaney from the chambers, and when once he had closed the door behind him, went back along the dark little corridor with an unnecessarily catlike tread.
It landed him at the paternal door in Harley Street almost at the instant at which Bommaney arrived there in pursuit of him. Now, although young Mr. Barter had not calculated on meeting Bommaney so soon, and although the meeting was naturally something of a shock to him, he had already schooled himself for interview and inquiry.
'What do you want with me? asked Bommaney, when the policeman was out of sight and hearing; Hornett walking beside him, with his lean, propitiatory fingers at his chin, looked up with hesitating meekness.
There was such a despair and so much fury in the other's looks that he could do nothing but crouch at his feet with his mean meek face turned fearfully towards Bommaney, and his body cowering. 'You think I took that eight thousand pounds? Bommaney quavered, with a voice of bitter disdain.
Bommaney made no movement at all, but stared before him with his blue-gray eyes filling more and more with tears, until two or three brimmed over and trickled down his cheeks. He said, 'God bless my soul! once more, mechanically, and restored what remained of his bundle of papers to his pocket. Young Mr.
It does him no more than justice to say that he mourned Bommaney senior infinitely more than the money. He liked to trust people, and had all his life long been eager to find excuses for defaulters. He could find no excuse here. The theft was barefaced, insolent, dastardly.
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