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Yours sincerely, FRED GARSON." "It's a very decent letter," said Yaspard, "and everybody who knows the young Laird says he is a brick; but I know how Uncle Brüs would flare up over this. One has only to utter 'holme' or 'Lunda' in uncle's hearing if one wants to bring the whole feud about one's ears." Here Signy put in her soft little voice. "But it really was a shame about the birds, Yaspard.
Later on, Garson, learning from the maid that Dick Gilder had left, returned, just as Mary was glancing over the release, with which General Hastings was to be compensated, along with the return of his letters, for his payment of ten thousand dollars to Miss Agnes Lynch. "Hello, Joe," Mary said graciously as the forger entered. Then she spoke crisply to Agnes. "And now you must get ready.
Then he glanced down at the body of the man whom he had done to death. "And you can tell that to Burke!" he said viciously to the dead. "You damned squealer!" There was a supremely malevolent content in his sneer. The going of Garson left the room deathly still.
Then, in the next instant, a crafty triumph gleamed from his eyes. "Yes, she's on," Garson interpreted, a moment later, as the tapping ceased for a little. He translated in a loud whisper as the irregular ticking noise sounded again. "I shall be there at the house almost at once. I am sending this message from the drug store around the corner. Have some one open the door for me immediately."
Garson spoke very softly, but with an intensity that left no doubt as to the honesty of his purpose. "I'd say, throw up the whole game and go to him, if you really care." There fell a tense silence. It was broken by Mary herself. She spoke with a touch of haste, as if battling against some hindrance within. "I married him to get even with his father," she said.
"And brains are mighty useful things, even in our business," Mary replied seriously; "particularly in our business." "I should say they were," Garson agreed. "You have proved that." Aggie came back, putting on her gloves, and cocking her small head very primly under the enormous hat that was garnished with costliest plumes.
"Sure, they was tipped off," Cassidy answered, quite unmoved. And he added, swelling visibly with importance: "We got to protect the city." "Got anything in that record of your'n," Garson went on venomously, "about her getting another job, and your following her up again, and having her thrown out? Got it there about the letter you had old Gilder write, so that his influence would get her canned?"
Garson, with the keen perspicacity that had made him a successful criminal without a single conviction to mar his record, had seized the implication in her statement, and now put it in words. "Then, you won't leave us? We're going on as we were before?" The hint of dejection in his manner had vanished. "And you won't live with him?" "Live with him?" Mary exclaimed emphatically. "Certainly not!"
Garson demanded, still with that gruesome air of boasting. "I got the gun, and the Maxim-silencer thing, off a fence in Boston," he explained. "Say, that thing cost me sixty dollars, and it's worth every cent of the money.... Why, they'll remember me as the first to spring one of them things, won't they?" "They sure will, Joe!" the Inspector conceded.
"What do you want here?" he demanded, with peremptory savageness in his voice, which was a tone he had never hitherto used in addressing her. Mary went swiftly to face Garson where he stood by the desk, while Griggs joined the other two men who stood shuffling about uneasily by the fireplace, at a loss over this intrusion on their scheme.
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