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Of course I did not care to commit myself, as you can readily understand, Mr. Hamilton, until I was assured the proposition was bona fide. "Mr. Mallowe and Mr. Carlis suggested that I call Mr. Lawton up on the private wire in his office, but the matter was so delicate that as long as he had not come to me in person I did not care to telephone him. Mr.
You discharged your clerk on the flimsiest of excuses, Mr. Mallowe but you did not discharge her quite soon enough. Rockamore's stenographer, and the switchboard operator in Carlis' office, who, like your filing clerk, came from Miss Lawton's club, were also dismissed too late. As I have said, my cards are on the table now. Are you prepared to play yours?"
"Do not speak of it, dear Miss Lawton. I only wish for your sake that your poor father had heeded poorer heads than his, but it is too late to speak of that now. We will do all in our power to aid you, rest assured of that. Should you require anything, you have only to call upon Mr. Rockamore, Mr. Carlis or myself."
Mallowe would get their heads together, and find out that their suspicions of all of us girls were correct. You wouldn't want that." "Miss Murfree is quite right," Blaine interposed. "You must be very careful, Miss Lawton, not to allow Mr. Carlis to discover that you know anything whatever of that conversation at least just yet." "I'll try, but it will be difficult, I am afraid," Anita murmured.
A nice, fat, juicy slice?" "How?" An interested pucker appeared suddenly between the detective's expressive brows, and Carlis laughed. "Oh, we're all in it you may as well be! You're on the inside, as it is!
"Look here, Blaine!" he bellowed. "What d'you mean by that?" "Merely following a train of thought, Mr. Carlis," returned the detective imperturbably. "I was trying to figure out why you were so desperately anxious to have me go to Grafton "
I shall not have it recorded now, of course, but there is a slight condition, purely a matter of business, which in view of the fact that through your coming marriage you will have a home of your own, Mr. Rockamore, Mr. Carlis and myself, feel that we should agree upon. Your father has a shadowy interest in some old bonds which have for years been unremunerative.
My reputation will stand, I think, upon my record in the past, even if every yellow newspaper in the city is paid to revile me." Carlis rested his plump hands upon his widespread knees, and leaned as far forward, in his eager anxiety, as his obese figure would permit. "But why?" he fairly wailed, his carefully rounded, oratorical tones forgotten. "Why on earth do you decline this offer, Blaine?
Under these circumstances, Carlis was looking around, perplexed and uncertain, not knowing what to do, when he perceived some scattered oaks standing by themselves in a field not far from the house, one of which seemed to be so full and dense in its foliage as to afford some hope of concealment there.
That's why he mixed up the files this morning, for an excuse to discharge me." "How did you know about Agnes Olson?" asked Blaine quickly. "Did she tell you?" "No, I heard it from Mr. Carlis himself!" returned Loretta, with a reminiscent grin. "He came right straight around to Mr. Mallowe and told him all about it, and a towering rage he was in, too!
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