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But Verdi is luscious." "Yes, Verdi. I quite agree with your assessment. And Mozart, of course, is beyond reproach." "Positively. But I generally prefer the intimacy of lieder myself." "German?" She laughed and pointed her fork at him. "Not only German chansons as well." "I'm relieved to hear it." Professor Bridwell then put one hand into his pocket, and withdrew his silver cigarette case.
When the "Autumn" season opened, she even felt a sudden chill in the air the performance was so wonderfully effective and she pulled her shawl more tightly around her shoulders. She chanced then to look across the audience, and thought that several rows down, in front of her, she saw Professor Bridwell.
It often seemed to her that the more obscure the quotation, the more it was admired amongst their cronies. She had always found such practices revolting. But Professor Bridwell was not at all like that. Why, the entire evening and it had been two hours in fact that they had sat over cups lukewarm coffee he had never quoted an author, famous or otherwise.
We know that Bridwell was alive at seven o'clock: we know his visitors did not leave him until eight. It is hardly conceivable that the woman came to the flat after that to commit a crime, impossible to believe that she would leave her bag there to be evidence against her, and then telephone about it to a man she knew to be dead. We may dismiss from our minds any idea that she committed murder."
We shall retire overland to our boats on the coast and leave you men to bring out the submarine." Forthwith a crew was made up for the U-boat out of the landing party. Three Germans who still remained cowering within the conning tower of the submarine submitted quietly to capture. Lieutenant Bridwell decided to make the Germans assist in getting the U-boat out to sea.
In this Bridwell affair we have to be careful not to be misled by cross lines, and I grant there are many. You say the woman is an extraneous episode; but is she? She left a bag, which is not to be found.
"Bridwell!" he exclaimed, and rapped four fingernails once upon the desk. "Employed only this year in the English department." "Professor Bridwell," she continued, imparting a certain air of coquetry to her words, "your dress is frankly too punctilious for a student; and if I might be so tactless, you seem... more evolved, shall we say." Having drawn out the key, she beckoned him to follow.
It seems that for some time past there has been a leakage of War Office secrets, that in some unaccountable way foreign powers have obtained information, and suspicion has pointed to Bridwell being concerned. So far as I can gather, nothing has been actually proved against him, and I pointed out that his intimate knowledge of European affairs made him rather a marked man.
Sleep was elusive in the extreme, but Gretchen found herself strangely delighted that she could not sleep, for she had the leisure to think over in detail all that had happened that day. And especially, she had time to ponder her interlude with Professor Bridwell. He was a most intriguing man.
Since it was on the Chesterfield, Bridwell must have seen it. What would he do with it? What would you have done with it, Wigan? I think you would have just put it on a side table or in a handy drawer; yet it had gone. The fact of its disappearance stuck in my mind from the first, although I did not at once see the full significance of it.
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