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"Get back to the car," he said. "I shan't be long." He closed and locked the door on his assistant and went swiftly upstairs. He was not thirty seconds gone, when Flitch followed stealthily in his wake. It was nothing to Flitch to turn an ordinary key from the other side. In the study Bullard switched on the light over the writing-table.
Did my uncle see anything of Mr. Bullard within the last few months of his life?" Caw let fall the duster and recovered it before he answered: "Yes, sir. On the afternoon of the day of his death Mr. Bullard and Mr. Lancaster sat in this room with him." "Mr. Lancaster, too!" "Yes, sir." "Thanks; that will do for the present. Now I have a letter to write. By the bye, do you remember my friend, Mr.
Bullard, but take the Scotch express to-night and go and see Christopher privately. I don't care what you tell him, but a public scandal public disgrace I will not have! Get the horrid thing settled, and let us go on as if nothing had happened until some of your shares go up and put you safely on your feet again." He sat up as if trying to shake off the horror.
A switch clicked beneath his hand, and once more the screen was dark. "Those dots and dashes! The old S O S! Who could doubt now?" Chet was telling himself this when the Commander's voice broke in harshly. "Even you must see the absurdity of this, Bullard.
Lancaster got up with a jerk and shudder. "Quick! Look in the other drawers for the keys." All the other drawers were locked. "Then we must take the whole thing." "Good Heavens! We can't do that! How can " Bullard darted to the door and listened. After a moment he turned the handle gingerly. Then he grinned. "I'm hanged," said he, "but the artful Caw has locked us in!" "He suspects us!"
It's horrid having to discuss it with you, Doris, but Teddy mentioned something about a a debt " "Oh!" It was a cry of pain. "Teddy must have misunderstood me. I never meant " "Teddy did it for the best, you may be sure, and I'm grateful to him. Let me go on, dear. It is this debt that gives Bullard the upper hand is it not? Twenty-five thousand, Teddy mentioned as the amount." "Don't! don't!"
Then she went back to the drawing-room. She looked straight at Bullard as he stood by the fire, well-dressed, well-groomed, and just rather well-fed. And there and then she made up her mind. "Mr. Bullard," she said calmly, "I promise to marry you, if you still wish it, a year hence; but I will not be engaged to you formally or openly. That is all I can say all I can offer you."
But Muller's hoarse shout cut through the babble that began, and rose over even the anguished shrieking of the cook. "Shut up, the lot of you! Bullard couldn't have committed the other crimes. Any one of you is a better suspect. Stop snivelling, Bullard, this isn't a lynching mob, and it isn't going to be one!" "What about Grundy?" Walt Harris yelled. Wilcox pushed forward.
Selections for service with colored troops should therefore be most carefully made. Major Bullard declares that the officer of negro troops "must not only be an officer and a gentleman, but he must be considerate, patient, laborious, self-sacrificing, a man of affairs, and he must have knowledge and wisdom in a great lot of things not really military."
Caw was within an ace of dropping the salver. After a moment he carried it to a side table and set it down with a small crash. Turning, he looked searchingly round the room. His gaze stopped at the curtain; he thought he understood. They had had an accomplice outside! ... He seemed to glide across to Bullard, and Bullard found himself looking into the barrel of a stout revolver.
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