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He glared morosely at Draycott; until, suddenly, a dawning look of joy spread over his face. "It's coming out. I swear it's coming out!" "You cheated," remarked an onlooker cruelly. "I saw you with my own eyes." It was then that he burst into tears. . . . Shut off as they were from the outside world the old tramp had no wireless they could only wonder, and wait, fuming with impatience.
There was no sermon and the service was short, and as he sat quietly in his place, Coryndon wondered what frenzied moment of fear or despair could have driven this man into the company of Joicey and Mrs. Draycott Wilder, unconscious perhaps of their connection with him, but linked nevertheless by an invisible thread that wound around them all. Beyond the fact that he had seen Mrs.
"To be dragged down, to be accused, to be cast so low," he continued, in his sad, heavy voice, "so low that the lowest have cause to deride and to scorn." He stopped before her. "Is it true that I can save you from that?" "It is true." She did not tell him that she had lied to Draycott; it did not appear necessary; neither did she tell him that Draycott's memory was long and sure and unerring.
It came, to be precise, on a certain Friday morning, seventeen days after his first visit to "The Safe." Returning late on the Thursday night, he was informed that a man giving the name of Draycott had called to see him. Apparently the matter had been of some importance to the visitor for he had returned three hours later on the chance of finding Mr. Carrados in.
"Or you either for that matter, I imagine," he added, "for I don't think that you slept much last night." "I didn't sleep at all last night," corrected Mr. Draycott. "But it's strange that you should have seen that. I understood from Mr. Carlyle that you excuse me if I am mistaken, sir but I understood that you were blind." Carrados laughed his admission lightly. "Oh yes," he said.
"If you made it often, S'Richard, you wouldn't be very far out." "Well, often then. His studies worry him, I suppose." Jerry made a peculiar grimace. "And he has had a little trouble once or twice with Mr Draycott." "Yes, S'Richard, he ayve." "There, I'll speak to him, Jerry.
Wilder was dining out that night, and she looked so superbly handsome and so defiantly well that everyone remarked upon her; and even Draycott Wilder, who might have been supposed to be used to her beauty and her wit, watched her with his slow, following look. Hartley was not at the dinner-party, but afterwards echoes of its success reached him, and a description of Mrs.
"Yours faithfully, "Herbert Draycott. "P.S. I should add that I am the renter of a safe at the Lucas Street depository. A description of Mr. Draycott made it clear that he was not the West-End bookmaker. The caller, the servant explained, was a thin, wiry, keen-faced man. Carrados felt agreeably interested in this development, which seemed to justify his suspicion of a plot.
"This way," said an official to some four or five men, who were carrying a gentleman that appeared to be more seriously injured than any of the rest. "Lay him down softly on that grassy bank;" then raising his voice called out, "Is there any medhal man at hand?" "Here, Draycott, although on leave you must come to the rescue.
At first he had not been genial; but when he had grasped the fact that mufti invariably cloaked the British officer, en permission, he had become more friendly. He advised dinner; in these days, as he truly remarked, one never knows. Also, what was England going to do? "Fight," Draycott answered promptly, with an assurance he did not feel. "Fight, mon Colonel; ça va sans dire."
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