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Ingalls, of Kansas, a tall, slim collegian "the bluejay of the plains" clad in blue from head to foot, and with a bright blue ribbon encircling his slender throat, stood somewhat back of the seats. Senator Voorhees' form towered in the shadow of the cloak-room.
In the cloak-room, Tancred was still at her side, and was presented to her mother, Lady Charmouth. 'I am sorry to separate, said Tancred. 'And so am I, said Lady Constance, smiling; 'but one advantage of this life is, we meet our friends every day. 'I am not going anywhere to-morrow, where I shall meet you, said Tancred, 'unless you chance to dine at the Archbishop of York's.
"But no jury could convict our employers, if that is what you mean." Miss Fairbanks was gasping over the startling suggestion. "I'm not so sure," said the lady thoughtfully. "If they could see what I have just seen they might possibly do it There is a young woman dying this minute down in that villainous cloak-room." With a smothered groan Faith sprang swiftly to the floor.
I believe I am in a fair way of extricating myself already. "I have just come back from a long round in a cab. First, to the cloak-room of the Great Western, to get the luggage which I sent there from All Saints' Terrace. Next, to the General Post-office, to post a letter to Midwinter at the rectory, which he will receive to-morrow morning.
Though he had not been there often of late, no one seemed much surprised to see him; he passed through the suite of rooms without addressing himself to any one in particular; a glance of recognition here and there; a smile, a slight nod, now and again, this was all. Having made the rounds he returned to the cloak-room, took his hat and cane and departed. From that hour dated his disappearance.
Perhaps he had flung himself down on a sofa in the cloak-room, or in his Committee Room, and forgotten the national disaster while she watched. She had been walking rapidly up and down the room. Her thoughts were not yet coherent, and instinct prompted her to get the blood out of her head if she could. A vague sense of danger possessed her, but she was not capable of defining it.
The Brewster party reached the school-house later than was their wont, and the cloak-room was well-filled with ranchers' wives and daughters all waiting to pass judgment on the strangers from Pebbly Pit. Mrs. Brewster and Polly entered first, shaking hands with friends and acquaintances. Anne followed smiling benignly on all.
On this Saturday night he had stepped into the clubhouse with more than his usual briskness. Sweeping a comprehensive glance around as he entered, as if looking for some one in the hall, he slipped off his overcoat and hat and handed both to the negro servant in charge of the cloak-room. "George." "Yes, Mr. Grayson."
"And finally," said the Great Detective, "I presume that it was committed in broad daylight, in some such place as the entrance of the Bank of England, or in the cloak-room of the House of Commons, and under the very eyes of the police?" "Those," said the secretary, "are the very conditions of the mystery."
Literary engagements stood in the way for the social heretics gather on a Friday but come what might, I would hear them discuss diabolism. But, alas! I had not calculated aright the power of that particular potentate to "draw." No sooner had I arrived at the cloak-room than the very hats and umbrellas warned me of the number of his votaries.
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