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"You sympathise with her to such an extent that you lure her to your rooms at midnight and send her back when you've " Dredlinton's courage oozed out before he had finished his speech. Wingate had swung around towards his companion, and there was something terrifying in his attitude. "You scoundrel!" he exclaimed. Dredlinton drew a little farther back and kept his finger upon the bell.
Try and do it in five minutes. Yes, our whole stock. When you've got the message through, ring us up. Where are we? Why, at Lord Dredlinton's house. Don't be longer than you can help. Put a different person on each line. What's that?" Rees turned his head. "He wants to know again," he said, "how much to sell. Let me say half our stock. That will be sufficient to ruin us.
Lord Dredlinton's death was due to exhaustion, but the doctor certifies that he was suffering, and has been for some time, from advanced valvular disease of the heart." "He had not the appearance," Wingate observed, "of being a healthy man." "He certainly was not," Shields admitted. "On the other hand, with great care he might have lived for some time.
"Supposing you then pass him on to me and I succeed in getting him to sell the shares? What about it?" "It will be worth a thousand pounds to you," Phipps declared. "Two!" Phipps shrugged his shoulders. "I don't bargain," he said, "but two let it be that is, of course, on condition that I have previously failed." Dredlinton's dull eyes glittered.
I warn you, you will think that I have drunk deep of the Bowery melodrama." "I shall mind nothing," she laughed as she assured him. "When do we begin?" Wingate was thoughtful for a moment or two. They both heard the opening of a heavy door down below, the hailing of a taxi by the butler, and Dredlinton's voice in the street. "Is that your husband going?" he enquired. She nodded.
The latter glanced towards the three men crouching around the table. Their white faces gleamed weirdly against the background of shaded light. There were black lines under Dredlinton's eyes. He made a gurgling effort at speech, his muttered words were only partly coherent. "I resign! I resign!" Wingate shook his head.
He crossed the room and rang the bell. Once more a servant in plain clothes made his appearance with phenomenal quickness. "Send to her ladyship's room," Wingate directed, "and enquire the name and address of Lord Dredlinton's doctor. Let him be fetched here at once. Tell two of the others to come down. Lord Dredlinton must be carried into his bedroom."
He'll forbid me next to talk about my own wife." "You'd be a cur if you did," Wingate told him. A little spot of colour burned in Dredlinton's cheeks. For a moment he showed his teeth. But for Kendrick's restraining arm, he seemed as though he would have thrown himself across the table. Then, with a great effort, he regained command of himself.
"It appears that Mr. Rees," the inspector went on, speaking with some emphasis, "is connected with an undertaking which during the last few weeks has provoked a wave of anger and disgust throughout the country." "Are you referring to the British and Imperial Granaries, Limited?" his interlocutor enquired. "That, I believe, is the name of the company." Lord Dredlinton's anxiety visibly increased.
"How on earth should I?" Josephine demanded. "I know nothing whatever about business. On the face of it, I should think you were mad." "We will leave the reason for Lord Dredlinton's appointment alone for the moment," Phipps continued. "I imagined that it would be gratifying to you. I imagined that the four thousand a year would be of some account in your housekeeping."
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