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Handyside's in twenty minutes from now?" He was going out when Alan recalled him. "Have you the address of the chap who made the clock, Caw?" "I have, sir." "Then wire him now asking him to come here in the morning. And, by the way, Caw " Alan hesitated. "Sir?" "You don't mind being left alone this evening?" "No, sir. I hardly expect that anything will happen this evening.
"If I may say so," returned Caw, who would have been happier standing at attention than sitting in Miss Handyside's company, "you take a lofty view of the matter, sir, and you put it in a nutshell when you say that his motives are none of our business. I am sorry to have brought you and Miss Handyside into the trouble " "I rather think I came in," observed Miss Handyside with a smile.
Thanks to Handyside's attentions he was not much the worse of the spray which had been more efficacious than virulent. Within half an hour he had managed to attract the attention of the house-keeper who had given the alarm. What had puzzled every one concerned was that the attempt should have ended as it had begun with the assault on the servant. Nothing had been touched.
Handyside's management was excellent, and she seemed, too, to have a heaven-sent faculty in knowing when to stop dusting. Little by little the old life resumed its old power. Then came the burglary. The men, it was said, broke into the house by way of the conservatory. It was really little more than an attempt, for they only succeeded in carrying away a few pieces of plate from the pantry.
I had better show you how the door works from this side." It was a much worried young man whom Caw presently left alone. Until last night, when he had looked at Marjorie Handyside's note, it had never occurred to him to connect the crime in the Arctic wastes with the will he had signed in the Aasvogel Syndicate office, on that fine spring morning, eighteen months ago.
Filled all Gazettes at that time; but now, again, is all fallen silent for us, except this one thrice-insignificant point, That there was in it, 'in Handyside's Regiment, a Lieutenant of Foot, by name STERNE, who had left, with his poor Wife at Plymouth, a very remarkable Boy called Lorry, or LAWRENCE; known since that to all mankind.
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