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"I don't get you at all," Bristow said, eyeing him intently. "What do you mean?" "Your conviction that Morley's the guilty man, your refusal to accept the case against Perry Carpenter, and your impatience in discussing Withers." "Think over Miss Fulton's story," Braceway retorted. "If it does anything at all, it strengthens the suspicion that Morley's the man we want.
"You see why he executed the trick? It was to establish forever, beyond the possibility of question, his innocence. Plainly, if an unknown man pawned the Withers jewelry in Baltimore while Bristow slept, exhausted by a major hemorrhage, in Washington, his case was made good, his alibi perfect.
So, they say, he wants to get a case against Morley." "A sort of second line of defense?" "I reckon so. But, then, there are others saying right now that Morley was mixed up in some sort of scandal for which Withers wants revenge. That's what you said at the very start. Remember?" Bristow laughed softly. "Yes; I had that idea, and I've reasoned it out.
Bristow broke in at last, his words a little fast despite his surface equanimity. "I subjected her to no ill treatment whatever. Anyway" he dismissed it with a wave of his hand "it's a minor detail." Braceway, without so much as a glance at him, continued: "And that gave me my knowledge of her being a partial albino.
"One of my men heard it." "Oh, I understand," she replied, a hint of craftiness creeping into her voice. "No; I can't explain it. One can't often explain one's ravings." "It merely suggested something that we had thought impossible," Bristow interjected soothingly: "that you might have wanted to deny having heard something which you really did hear; that you were protecting somebody."
Bristow, "that this principal hasn't self-control enough to be charged with teaching discipline to a lot of spirited boys. His example is bad for them -continually bad. However, that is for the Board of Education to determine. My son will not come to school to-day, but he will attend to-morrow. As the first step toward righting to-day's affair I shall expect Mr.
When I went down the porch steps, I saw something lying in the grass, on the upper side of the steps, the side toward your house." She slipped her hand under one of the pillows. "It was this." She handed to Bristow an open-faced gold watch. He read on the back of it the initials, "G. S. W."
Without the slightest warning, she had lost the last shred of her self-control. She began to beat on the covering of her bed with clenched fists. He could see how her whole body moved and twisted. Greenleaf, startled by the girl's demeanour, moved further from her. Bristow stood his ground, watching her closely.
Bob repeated the names of the would-be deserters which Bristow had given as nearly as he could recall them, and the sergeant hurried off to hunt up the officer of the day, while Bob went back into the quarters. He had been there but a few minutes when the orderly appeared at the door and sung out, "Owens, the colonel wants to see you."
"I'll appoint you to the plain-clothes squad. I appoint you now, and the city commissioners will confirm it. They meet tonight. You're on the force at a nominal salary say ten dollars a week. That suit you?" "Perfectly," consented Bristow. "What I want is the power to help in case I have the opportunity." Greenleaf went out to the porch, followed by Bristow, and started down the steps.
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