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"What has happened?" asked the girl; "I have been so anxious about you ..." Her words were addressed to the doctor, but she looked at Robin. "Mary," said Robin, "we are very near the truth now. But there is one thing you can tell us. It is very important. When you heard the shot in the library at Harkings, did you notice any other sound before or after?" The girl paused to think.
"Leave it to me," he said, "I know Harkings like my pocket. Besides I've got a friend there ..." "Who might that be?" queried the barrister. "Bude," answered the boy and laid a finger on his lips. "But," he pursued, jerking his head in the direction of the window, "what are we going to do about him out there?" Robin laughed. "Him?" he said. "Oh, I'm going to take him out for an airing!"
I consequently assumed that you must have taken away the letter seen by Robin Greve ..." Mr. Jeekes drew in his breath with a sucking sound. It was a little trick of his when about to speak. "So you saw Miss Trevert at Harkings, eh?" Bruce laughed. "I did," he said. "We had quite a dramatic meeting, too it was like a scene from a film!" And, with a little good-humoured exaggeration, he gave Mr.
Lady Margaret had risen and stood, one arm about her daughter, on the Persian rug spread out before the cheerful fire. So the women stood in the firelight in Hartley Parrish's house, surrounded by all the treasures which his wealth had bought, and listened to the footsteps clattering away through the silence. Harkings was not a large house.
Thus he had stood for fully ten minutes listening in vain for any sound within the house. All was still as death. He began to think that the bell was out of order. He had forgotten Hartley Parrish's insistence on quiet. All bells at Harkings rang, discreetly muted, in the servants' hall. He stepped out of the porch on to the drive.
The first thing he did on arriving last night was to go to the library." "I suppose Jeekes is coming back here to-night?" No, she told him. Mr. Jeekes did not expect to return to Harkings until the inquest on Tuesday. Bruce Wright picked up his hat. "I must apologize again, Miss Trevert," he said, "for making such an unconventional entrance and giving you such a fright.
And this doth be a power of holy things, and doth be a child that is born of Love and Reason, and in the one to hold the two, and to know all things is the gift of this power; so that no man may walk truly that hath only the first, neither any man do utter wise that hath only the second. And surely, I to cease from these thoughts, and to my tellings; and you to your harkings and dear sympathy.
I think I should have noticed if any one had followed me up to your chambers ..." Robin set his chin squarely. "Then he came after me," he said. "Bruce, you'll have to go to Harkings and get that letter!" "By all means," answered the boy. "But, I say, they won't much like me butting in, will they?"
You tried to force my investigations into an entirely new path. That deepened my suspicions. I believed it to be my duty to ascertain your movements after leaving Harkings. But then I heard Jeekes make an apparently gratuitously false statement to Miss Trevert with an implication against you. That, to some extent, cleared you in my eyes.
I was alone at Harkings with him, I remember, Jeekes was up at Sheffield and the other secretaries were away ill or something, and in the rush of dealing with this enormous mail I slit one of these blue envelopes open with the rest. I discovered what I had done only after I had got all the letters sorted out, this one with the rest. So I went straight to old H.P. and told him. By Jove!"
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