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Look about, see if you can't find it." Thus admonished, the secretary began to search the floor with frantic glances, and as the footman ushered in Cecelia Brooke, Lanyard saw the young man dart forward and retrieve the pen with a start of relief wellnigh as unmanning as the shock of loss had seemed.
A click answered, and a bland voice which was not the voice he had expected to hear: "Hello? That you, Jack?" He said wearily: "I am waiting to speak with Miss Cecelia Brooke." "Oh, then there must be some mistake. This is Miss Crooke speaking." Lanyard uttered a strangled "Sorry!" and hung up, abandoning further effort as hopeless. That matter would have to stand over till morning.
The struggles of the Greeks to throw off Mussulman rule, are represented by a young Grecian warrior, with his companions in arms. On the left of the Savior, some of the early martyrs are painted St. Catherine and St. Cecelia.
For Lanyard's benefit and his own he vacated the chair beside Sophie Weringrode, seating himself to one side of Cecelia Brooke, who had Velasco between her and the soi-disant princess. Already a waiter had placed and was filling glasses for Lanyard and the girl.
The master of ceremonies gave the signal and the event of the day was on. First to collapse was Charlie Anderson. Jimmie was then in the lead with Len Fogarty a close second, and Cecelia Anne beside him. So they went for a lap. Then Jimmie, missing perhaps the blue little figure of his pacemaker, wavered a little, only a little, but enough to allow Len Fogarty to forge past him. Len Fogarty!
Sharp work, if these inferences were reasonable. And, satisfied that they were, Lanyard inclined to accord increased respect to the detective abilities of the American. But this note, this hurried, unsigned scrawl of five unintelligible words: what the deuce did it mean? On the evidence of the handwriting a woman had penned it. Cecelia Brooke? Who else?
If this surmise of his were any way justified in the outcome, he promised Miss Cecelia Brooke an hour of most painful penitence. Woman or not, she need not look for mercy from him, who must ever be merciless in his dealings with Ekstrom's crew. To be made that one's tool! The very thought was intolerable....
They were given to her at Christmas and other times. But really, since we came out here for the summer they've been rather neglected. Their mother has been so busy." "And Jimmie made me a house for them!" Cecelia Anne broke in. "And furniture! And a front yard stuck right on to the piazza! But I don't know, mother, whether I'd have time to show them to Mr. Debrett in the morning.
For his was no thief's errand to-night, but a matter, as he conceived it, of his private honour, something apart and distinct from the code of rogue's ethics which guided his professional activities. He had pledged his word to Cecelia Brooke to keep safe for her that cylinder of paper, to return it upon her demand for whatsoever disposition she might choose to make of it.
One minute after he had passed through the gateway he would have defied unaided apprehension by the most zealous officer of the peace. He went swiftly and secretly, avoiding all lighted ways. Not till then did conscience stir and remind him of his slighted promise to call up Cecelia Brooke. No time now for that; the errand that engaged him was of a nature to brook no more procrastination.
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