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"Miss Benham done tol' me she am not to be disturbed till eight o'clock," he objected. But the telegram in Braman's hands had instant effect upon the black custodian of the car, and shortly afterward Miss Benham was looking at the banker and his telegram in sleepy-eyed astonishment, the door of her compartment open only far enough to permit her to stick her head out.
I've changed my mind about going to the First Merchants' Ball. I'd much rather sit here and chin you if you don't mind." "Not a bit!" hastily acquiesced the banker. "In fact, I like the idea of staying here much better. It is more private, you know." He grinned significantly, but the woman's smile of faint derision changed merely to irony, which held steadily, making Braman's cheeks glow crimson.
"I was forced to smash a lamp in the courthouse. The wick fell into the oil, and I couldn't delay to " "Was anybody hurt besides you?" "Braman's dead." The girl gasped and shrank from him, and he saw that she believed he had killed the banker, and he was about to deny the crime when Agatha's voice shrilled through the doorway: "There are some men coming, Rosalind!"
"You're sure you don't care for Trevison any more that you're only taking his end of this because of what he's been to you in the past?" demanded the banker, looking suspiciously at her. "He told me he didn't love me any more. I couldn't want him after that, could I?" "I should think not." Braman's eyes glowed with satisfaction. But he hesitated, yielding when she smiled at him.
He looked inward, wondering at Braman's carelessness and stared fixedly straight into a beam of light that shone through a wedge-shaped crevice between two boards in the partition that separated the buildings. He got up silently, stepped stealthily into the room, closing the door behind him. He tried to fasten it and discovered that the lock was broken.
About one o'clock the fog lifted, and revealed to the astonished party the camp of the Rovers. A large fire burned near the two tents, around which the boys were gathered, for the weather was so inclement as to render Tim's enterprise anything but romantic. The Sylph, the two club boats, and Joe Braman's "gondola" lay near the shore, apparently uninjured.
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