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In comment upon the other's stare of puzzled enquiry, he went on: "You're Gafferson, aren't you? I thought so. When I last saw you, you were running a sort of half-way house, t'other side of Belize. That was in '90." Gafferson a thick-set, squat man of middle age, with a straggling reddish beard turned upon him a tranquil but uninformed eye.
And what was it, after all, that Gafferson could possibly know or prove? His brother-in-law had gone off, and got too drunk to live, and had died. What in the name of all that was sensible had this to do with Thorpe? Why should it even be supposed that Gafferson associated Thorpe with any phase of the business?
That drunken old bum of a Tavender writes some lunatic nonsense or other to Gafferson, and he's a worse idiot even than Tavender is, and on the strength of what one of these clowns thinks he surmises the other clown means, you go and spend your money, money I gave you, by the way, in bringing Tavender over here.
"See his Lordship!" repeated Thorpe, with an impatient grin. "Why I'm a guest here in the house. All I want is something to eat." "A guest," Gafferson repeated in turn, slowly. There was nothing unpleasant in the intonation, and Thorpe's sharp glance failed to detect any trace of offensive intention in his companion's fatuous visage.
One hears such marvelous tales about them." "Speaking of flowers," Thorpe suddenly decided to mention the fact; "I met out in one of the greenhouses here this morning, an old acquaintance of mine, the gardener, Gafferson. The last time I saw him, he was running the worst hotel in the world in the worst country in the world out in British Honduras."
And if he had any notion of a hostile movement, why should he have delayed action so long? Why indeed! Reassurance did not come to him, but at last an impulse to definite action turned his footsteps toward the cluster of greenhouses in the deepening shadow of the mansion. He would find Gafferson, and probe this business to the uttermost.
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