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Davager left. If I rang twice, he was to show the gentleman out. If I rang once, he was to keep out of the way, and follow the gentleman whereever he went till he got back to the inn. Those were the only preparations I could make to begin with; being obliged to wait, and let myself be guided by what turned up. About a quarter to seven my gentleman came.
"Quite easy, if he had been a lawyer," says I. "But never mind that; I'm going to make a guess a desperate guess, mind. Should I be altogether in error if I thought that this letter had been stolen; and that the fingers of Mr. Davager, of suspicious commercial celebrity, might possibly be the fingers which took it?" "That is exactly what I wanted to make you understand," cried Mr. Frank.
When the head chambermaid came, it turned out, as good luck would have it, that Mr. Davager had drawn her attention rather too closely to his ugliness, by offering her a testimony of his regard in the shape of a kiss. Davager, the head chambermaid was ready to go any lengths that she could safely to serve my cause. In a few words I discovered that Boots was to call Mr.
"How did he communicate the interesting fact of the theft to you?" "He has not ventured into my presence. The scoundrel actually had the audacity " "Aha!" says I. "The young lady herself! Sharp practitioner, Mr. Davager." "Early this morning, when she was walking alone in the shrubbery," Mr.
It ended in his driving me to my last resource I made an attempt to frighten him. "Before we say a word about the money," I began, "let me put a case, Mr. Davager. The pull you have on Mr. Francis Gatliffe is, that you can hinder his marriage on Wednesday. Now, suppose I have got a magistrate's warrant to apprehend you in my pocket? Suppose I have a constable to execute it in the next room?
"Stop a bit," says I. "What was that suspected clerk's name?" "Davager," says he. "Davager," says I, making a note of it. "Go on, Mr. Frank." "His affairs got more and more entangled," says Mr. His mind was so affected by his troubles that both his wife and daughter, toward the last, considered him to be hardly responsible for his own acts. In this state of desperation and misery, he " Here Mr.
If you refuse to deal, I shall send a copy to the local paper, and shall wait on your highly-respected father with the original curiosity, on the afternoon of Tuesday next. Having come down here on family business, I have put up at the family hotel being to be heard of at the Gatliffe Arms. Your very obedient servant, ALFRED DAVAGER."
Davager came, to my boy Tom. There never was such a sharp boy of fourteen before, and there never will be again, as my boy Tom. A spy to look after Mr.
When I had sent Tom off to help with the boots and shoes, I reviewed the whole case exactly as it stood at that time. There were three things Mr. Davager might do with the letter. He might give it to his friend again before ten in which case Tom would most likely see the said friend on the stairs.
When I had told him, he pitched his toothpick into my grate, yawned, and went out. I rang the bell once waited till he had passed the window and then looked after Tom. There was my jewel of a boy on the opposite side of the street, just setting his top going in the most playful manner possible. Mr. Davager walked away up the street toward the market-place.
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