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Then, without a word, Milo wheeled and strode to the window from which they had watched the tragedy. Opening the shutter, he peered out into the moonlight. "Hade's still lying where he fell," he reported, tersely. "They haven't even bothered to move him. You were dreaming. If " "I wasn't asleep," she denied, a trace of color beginning to creep back into her blanched cheeks. "I had just lain down.
And it would be ample time then to go to Miami and to safer quarters, while Gavin should start the hunt after Rodney Hade. The two men had agreed to divide the night into watches. "One of the torpedo-boat destroyers down yonder, off Miami, can ferret out Hade's yacht and lay it by the heels, in no time," explained Brice. "His house is watched, always, lately.
The chances are all against the fight's having taken place or this Hade's having been arrested." "But if we're beaten on it " suggested the chief. "But I don't think that is possible. If there were any story to print, Dwyer would have had it here before now." The managing editor looked steadily down at the floor. "Very well," he said, slowly, "we won't wait any longer.
But this was overcome when Gallegher remembered the window of which young Keppler had told him. In the event of Hade's losing courage and not daring to show himself in the crowd around the ring, it was agreed that Dwyer should come to the barn and warn Hefflefinger; but if he should come, Dwyer was merely to keep near him and to signify by a prearranged gesture which one of the crowd he was.
The instant the door fell and the raid was declared Hefflefinger slipped over the cross rails on which he had been lying, hung for an instant by his hands, and then dropped into the centre of the fighting mob on the floor. He was out of it in an instant with the agility of a pickpocket, was across the room and at Hade's throat like a dog.
Scarce had the door slammed when he heard. from below Rodney Hade's voice raised in the sharp question: "What does this mean? You've dared to ?" "What the blazes else could I do?" blustered Milo though under the bluster ran a thread of placating timidity. "He saved my life, didn't he? I was tackled by " "For one thing," suggested Hade. "you could have hit a little harder with the wrench.
The master-mind's reaction, in its hour of brokenness, roused his pity. From the windows, Hade's gloomy eyes strayed to the piano. On it lay a violin case. He picked it up and took out an age-mellowed violin. "I think clearer when I play," he said, glumly, to Brice. "And I've nearly a million dollars' worth of thinking to do in this half hour. Is it forbidden to fiddle?
For she swayed perilously as she made her way down toward the men. "What is it?" demanded Milo, excitedly. "What's happened?" Claire struggled visibly to regain her composure. Then, speaking with forced calmness, she said: "I've just seen a ghost! Rodney Hade's ghost!" The two looked at her in dumb incomprehension.
The chances are all against the fight's having taken place or this Hade's having been arrested." "But if we're beaten on it " suggested the chief. "But I don't think that is possible. If there were any story to print, Dwyer would have had it here before now." The managing editor looked steadily down at the floor. "Very well," he said, slowly, "we won't wait any longer.
As he looked a faint reddish spot of fire appeared in the gloom, just at the beginning of the lawn. Some one, cigar in mouth, was evidently keeping a watch on his room's windows. Gavin smiled to himself, and went back to bed. "Door locked, windows guarded," he reflected, amusedly. "I owe that to Mr. Hade's orders. Seen me before, has he?
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