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The Governor!" he heard faintly shouted through the deep-padded panels. For a quarter of an hour the Governor sat and talked with Lucy, waiting the arrival of Gordon and Ruth. The warden arranged that they should meet in the adjoining room alone. No eye save God's saw their meeting.
And he sadly acknowledged that he wasn't able to milk. Windmill men seldom were, he casually asserted. "Then you'll have to make yourself handy, in other ways," I proclaimed as he sat appraising me from his deep-padded car-seat. "All right," he said, as though the whole thing were settled, on the spot. But it wasn't so simple as it seemed. "How about this car?" I demanded.
There were several deep-padded leather arm-chairs, and an old-fashioned open hearth. In the window was a big roll-top desk strewn with papers at which the master of the house was sitting. He rose as they entered. "You have a message for me? Ah" he recognized Tuppence with a smile "it's you, is it? Brought a message from Mrs. Vandemeyer, I suppose?" "Not exactly," said Tuppence.
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