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"I would rather tell you all about it only" He paused. "Don't," said I. "I don't want to know. I merely thought you might prefer to be left free of outsiders at present." "We hardly look upon you as an outsider, Griggs," said John, quietly. "You have been here so much and we have been so intimate that you are almost like one of the family.
That numerous things were said need not be stated. Mrs. Hawkins said most of them, and they were luminous. Mrs. Griggs limited herself to ruining a fifty-dollar gown by weeping on my coal-soiled shoulder as she implored me never again to tread the same street with Hawkins. It was a solemn moment, that; for I saw the light.
"In war time," says E. H. Griggs, "there is a curious paradox of widening radicalism of thought, with constantly decreasing freedom of action and expression. When the discrepancy becomes too great, you have the explosion, a revolution."
But the most amazing thing of all was that A WOMAN'S DRESS was hanging over a chair by the table. Mrs. Griggs says it NEVER belonged to Jasper Dale's mother, for she thought it a sin to wear anything but print and drugget; and this dress was of PALE BLUE silk. Besides that, there was a pair of blue satin slippers on the floor beside it HIGH-HEELED slippers.
Of course; I will go at once, but how did you know?" "Wait a minute, Isaacs; she is not well at all in fact, she is quite ill." "What's the matter for God's sake Why, Griggs, man, how white you are O my God, my God she is dead!" I seized him quickly in my arms or he would have thrown himself on the ground. "No," I said, "she is not dead. But, my dear boy, she is dying.
Ghyrkins; my friend Mr. Griggs." "The real offender," I added in a conciliatory tone, for I had kept my place on the inside. "Mr. Griggs?" said Mr. Currie Ghyrkins. "Mr. Griggs of Allahabad? Daily Howler? Yes, yes, corresponded; glad to see you in the flesh." I did not think he looked particularly glad.
Griggs's Intelligence Office a little counter and show case dividing off its farther end, making a sanctum for Mrs. Griggs, who sat here in rheumatic ponderosity, dependent for whatever involved locomotion on the rather alarming alacrity of an impish-looking granddaughter who is elbowing her way through the throng of applicants for places and servants.
As I watched, an apologetic-looking youth appeared in the door of the office and handed Hawkins an official-appearing slip of paper. The inventor snatched it impolitely and turned his back, while the youth gazed after him for a moment and then returned to the office. "Set of confounded idiots!" Hawkins remarked wrathfully. Then, ere I could disappear, he spied me. "Aha, Griggs, you here?"
"Brevity was safest, nor had we money enough for two; so all I attempted was, 'Delrio to Flight, Rock Quay. Both safe. Picked up by Kittiwake. I thought that would be the quickest means of relieving anxiety, as we were not sure of other addresses; and as to 'home, Mamma probably hardly was aware of the storm, or, if she were, she knew the capabilities of yachts and of Griggs."
He had some sealed glass capsules of hydrocyanide of potassium in little brass tubes, sewn up in the lining of a waistcoat, and he took one, and must have died instantly. I believe the stuff turns into prussic acid, or something of that sort, when you swallow it Griggs will know. 'How dreadful! exclaimed Lady Maud. 'I'm sure you drove him to it!
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