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Furley is making enquiries both at Mr. Orden's rooms and at his clubs." "You are perfectly satisfied, so far as I am concerned, I trust?" he persisted, as he opened the door for them. "Perfectly satisfied," Catherine replied, looking him in the face, "that you have told us as much as you choose to for the present."
"I have a theory that it is being engineered." "Bolo business, eh?" Julian Orden moved in his place a little uneasily. His long, nervous fingers played with the stick which stood always by the side of his chair. "You don't believe in it, do you?" he asked quietly. Furley looked straight ahead of him. His eyes seemed caught by the glitter of the lamplight upon the cut-glass decanter.
But there is a little bit of it done, and in my humble way they find me an occasional job or two down here. I won't say that anything ever comes of our efforts we're rather like the special constables of the secret service but just occasionally we come across something suspicious." "So that's why you're going out again to-night, is it?" Furley nodded. "This is my last night.
"The soldiers, who are all decent fellows, the old farmer at the back, and your father and mother are the only people with whom I have the slightest acquaintance in these parts." "The bridge has been deliberately sawn through," Julian announced gravely. Furley nodded. He seemed prepared for the news. "There is something doing in this section, then," he muttered. "Julian, will you take my job on?"
"I must be back at the Hall in time to dine to-night, you know. My people made rather a point of it." Furley nodded. "You'll be all right," he replied. "As a matter of fact, he isn't coming." "Not coming?" Julian repeated. "Jove, I should have thought you'd have had intelligence officers by the dozen down here!"
Gore had ascertained, on secret, but sure authority, that Furley had been lately much straitened for money, and had parted with his securities, among the rest, the mortgage on Mr. Tulliver's property, which he had transferred to Wakem. In half an hour after this Mr.
The name of the man who manages the London office, though, is Fenn Nicholas Fenn." Furley withdrew the pipe from his mouth. His eyebrows had come together in a slight frown. "Nicholas Fenn, the Labour M.P.?" "That's the fellow. You know him, of course?" "Yes, I know him," Furley replied thoughtfully.
He felt the top of his head, still sore; looked down at the stretch of shingle, empty now of any reminiscences; and finally, leaning heavily on his stick, he plodded back to the cottage, noticing, as he drew near, the absence of the motor-car from its place of shelter. Miles Furley was seated in his armchair, with a cup of tea in his hand and Mrs.
"I would not trust you a yard," she replied fiercely. "In any case, it is better that the others should come. Mr. Orden might not believe me. He will at least believe the Bishop." "Believe whom?" Julian demanded. The door was opened. The Bishop and Miles Furley came hastily in. Catherine stepped forward to meet them. "I was obliged to whistle," she explained, a little hysterically.
"You saw him?" the Bishop enquired. "That's just what I did not," Fenn replied. "Why not?" Catherine demanded. "Because he wasn't there hasn't been since three o'clock this afternoon." "You've moved him?" Furley asked eagerly. "He's moved himself," was the grim reply. "He's escaped." During the brief, spellbound silence which followed his announcement, Fenn advanced slowly into the room.
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