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"Always supposing Clavering himself had done anything criminal!" "Of course." "Which latter supposition you now propose to justify!" "Which latter supposition it is left for us to justify." A peculiar gleam shot over Mr. Gryce's somewhat abstracted countenance. "Then you have no new evidence against Mr. Clavering?"
"Well, that is certainly the contrivance of a lazy man," laughed the expert. "Seated in his chair here, he can close his door at will. No shouting after a deaf servant, no awkward stumbling over rugs to shut it himself. I don't know but I approve of this contrivance, only " here he caught a rather serious expression on Mr. Gryce's face "the slide seems to be of a somewhat curious construction.
She had once more shown her talent for profiting by the unexpected, and dangerous theories as to the advisability of yielding to impulse were germinating under the surface of smiling attention which she continued to present to her companion. Mr. Gryce's sensations, if less definite, were equally agreeable.
Gryce's attitude showing that he awaited some expression of interest on his part.
He felt the confused titillation with which the lower organisms welcome the gratification of their needs, and all his senses floundered in a vague well-being, through which Miss Bart's personality was dimly but pleasantly perceptible. Mr. Gryce's interest in Americana had not originated with himself: it was impossible to think of him as evolving any taste of his own.
"I I don't know as I can," she stammered reluctantly, turning very red in the face. "I am a poor one for noticing. I will call one of the girls, I " She was gone before we realized she had not finished her sentence. "Humph!" broke from Mr. Gryce's lips as he thoughtfully took down a vase that stood on a bracket near by and looked into it. I did not venture a word. When Mrs.
Gryce's eyes and he became voluble, not to say violent. He, at any rate, had no doubt that the stories were true; he could testify, to his own knowledge, that they were true. Verner was not only a hard landlord, but a mean landlord, a robber as well as a rackrenter; any gentleman would be justified in hounding him out.
Franklin Van Burnam accused of this crime and in custody! What did it mean? I had found no evidence against Franklin Van Burnam. "Madam, I hope I see you satisfied?" This was Mr. Gryce's greeting as he entered my parlor on that memorable morning. "Satisfied?" I repeated, rising and facing him with what he afterwards described as a stony glare. "Pardon me!
I can only recall the suddenness with which she stooped and the colour of the cloak she wore. It was red, and the whole garment was voluminous. If you wish further particulars, though in truth, I have no more to give, you can find me in 356. "Humph! This should simplify our task," was Mr. Gryce's comment, as he handed the note over to Sweetwater.
To my mind, this discovery of a more favoured rival, brings in an element of motive which may rob our self-reliant friend of some of his complacency. We may further, rather than destroy, our case against Brotherson by locating a second O.B." Mr. Gryce's eyes twinkled. "That won't make your task any more irksome," he smiled. "The loop we thus throw out is as likely to catch Brotherson as his rival.
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