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"It vill do me fery well. Dere iss nod much to see out here." "I know," said Wampus. "But Herr Gabert. What happen to him?" Again there was a pause. Then the German said slowly: "I am nod rich; but efery year I send a leetle money to Stuttgart to put some flowers on Herr Gabert's grave." The chauffeur's face brightened. He got up from his chair and solemnly shook Dan'l's hand.
Jasper had brought May down in response to the telegraphed instructions which John Minute had sent him. "What's the news?" he asked. "Well, I think I have found your Mr. Holland," said the inspector. He took a fat case from his inside pocket, opened it, and extracted a snapshot photograph. It represented a big motor car, and, standing by its bonnet, a little man in chauffeur's uniform.
Even had not the chauffeur's presence acted as a restraint, none of the party would have had the heart to make perfunctory conversation; the tragedy of the moment had touched them too deeply. What a strange, wonderful unraveling of life's tangled skeins had come with the few fleeting hours.
When they were out of the chauffeur's sight he put his arm around her waist and pressed her against him. All his affection and half his attention it was what he granted her throughout their happy married life. "But you haven't listened, Charles " "What's wrong?" "I keep on telling you Howards End. Miss Schlegels got it." "Got what?" asked Charles, unclasping her.
Lavender, deep sunk in the whirlpool of feeling which had been stirred in him by his chauffeur's cynicism, gazed at the square redbrick building with bewildered eyes. "It's quite O. K.," said Joe; "I used to call here regular when I was travellin' in breeches. Where the commercials are gathered together the tap is good," he added, laying a finger against the side of his nose.
Even in his neat chauffeur's uniform he seemed every inch a gentleman. He had been driving a car for twelve years, he explained. No, he did not drink and had never been arrested for speeding. "Are you a married man?" Jane listened curiously for his answer to this question of her father's. Surely it would be far more interesting if he wasn't.
He would drop round in the evenings, when Hannah was out or in bed, and tell us what "magneto" was in Arabic, and how he would soon be able to care for Tish's car and would not take a cent for it, doing it at night when the taxicab was resting. At the end of six weeks we bought him a chauffeur's outfit. The next day the sister arrived and Tufik brought her to Aggie's, where we were waiting.
That evening he made no mention of either the chauffeur's absence or his trip to the field. Pauline thought she was teasing Harry by saying nothing of her plans. She was sure he was eaten up with curiosity to know the result of her visit and admired his ability, as she thought, to conceal it. Owen spent a nervous evening.
Let us talk of something else, signore," was the mysterious chauffeur's reply. "But I confess to you that I am bent upon solving the mystery of Mademoiselle's assailant. It means a very great deal to me." "How?" asked the man. Hugh hesitated. "Well," he replied. "If the culprit is found, then there would no longer be any suspicion against myself." "Probably he never will be found," the man said.
Spugg told this with no false boasting or bravado, eating his celery as he spoke of it. Here was a man who had nearly had his chauffeur's wings blown off and yet he never moved a muscle. I began to realize the kind of resolute stuff that the man was made of. A few days later bad news came to the club. "Have you heard the bad news about Spugg?" someone asked. "No, what?"
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