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"He's always been a great hand at reading these detective tales, and to set him to watch anybody is like offering chickens to a nigger he fair revels in it!" "Well, there's plenty for him to revel in," observed Allerdyke grimly. Plenty! he said to himself with a cynical laugh when Gaffney had left him aye, plenty, and to spare.
Close by there, convenient pub, sir stands back a bit from the road. Bar-parlour, sir quiet corners. What time, sir?" Appleyard fixed half-past eleven. By that time, he said, he should know if Mr. Rayner and Miss Slade had returned to the Pompadour; by that time, too, Albert Gaffney would be in a position to report his own doings and progress.
Now, then, can you trust this friend of yours?" asked Appleyard. "Is he a chap of common sense?" "It's my own brother," replied Gaffney. "Some people say I'm the sharper of the two, some say he is. There's a pair of us, anyhow." "That'll do," said Appleyard. "Now, wherever you see this Mr.
The children were anxious to have him stay to lunch with them and Louise, who had heard his voice and who came downstairs to see him, also invited him to stay. But he was too shy, and shuffled off just as Nellie Yarrow bounded up the front steps. "Wasn't that Mickey Gaffney?" she asked curiously. "I shouldn't think you'd want to play with him.
"Come in then," said Miss Putnam shortly. "Mind you wipe your feet, and don't scratch the rounds of the chairs with your heels." She led them into a tiny sitting-room and Brother and Sister sat down on two hard, straight chairs while Miss Putnam took the only rocker. "Well?" she asked expectantly. "We've come about Mickey Gaffney," said Sister hurriedly.
Still, I'll tell you what there is, sir there's a name that begins with the same initials G.R." "What name?" asked Appleyard. "The name," replied the second Gaffney, "is Gavin Ramsay Agent." Allerdyke went off to Hull, post-haste, because of a telephone call which roused him out of bed an hour before his usual time.
He could get more to eat through him in any event, and in the midst of it all Gaffney came in from a brief visit to his kitchen to say that Sioux Pete, the malefactor in question, was actually in the corral at that moment trying to sell two ponies to the sergeant of the guard. Leaving Gaffney to the duty of entertaining his guests, Davies went out to investigate.
He found Gaffney and sent him round to the garage from which Miss Celia Lennard had obtained her midnight car, with instructions to find the chauffeur who had driven her, and to get from him what information he could as to her movements subsequent to the rencontre at Howden. "Don't excite his suspicions," said Allerdyke, "but pump him for any news he can give you.
There he got out; brougham went off back he walked down street. So my brother here he got out too, and strolled down street after him. He'll tell you the rest, sir." "Just as plain as what he's told," said the other Gaffney. "I followed him down the street; he walked one side, I t'other side.
"You'll be a heap bigger man among the Indians than the agent can ever hope to be, lieutenant," said Gaffney, with an Irish grin. But Davies said nothing. Had he overstepped his authority? Would McPhail approve? The point was soon settled. Through the hangers-on about the store McPhail heard rumors flitting like lightning among the villages.
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