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I have been a rotter and worse than a rotter." The old flippancy had gone and the harsh voice was vibrant with purpose. "My path has been littered with the wrecks of human lives," he said bitterly, "and they are mostly women. I broke the heart of the best woman in the world, and I am going to see that you don't break the heart of her daughter." "Will you be quiet?" hissed van Heerden.
"You know what was on it," said Beale, in his best third degree manner, "now don't keep us waiting. What was it?" "A watch, sir." "How much was it pledged for?" "Ten shillings, sir." "Do you remember the name." "In a foreign name, sir van Horden." "Van Heerden," said Beale quickly, "and at what pawnbrokers?"
"I dare not hope " replied the doctor, pacing the room nervously. "Suppose you dared, what form would your hope take?" "I told you the other day," said van Heerden, stopping before his companion, "that I had asked my Government to assist me. Hitherto they have refused, that is why I am so desperately anxious to get this marriage through. I must have money.
Van Heerden slid forward, and fell sprawling across the table. It was the Friday morning, and Beale stepped briskly through the vestibule of the Ritz-Carlton, and declining the elevator went up the stairs two at a time. He burst into the room where Kitson and the girl were standing by the window. "Wheat prices are tumbling down," he said, "the message worked."
Can't you see it all plainly now? Van Heerden neither trusted his memory nor his subordinates. He had his simple code written, as we shall find, upon thin paper enclosed in the case of a hunter watch, and this he pledged. A pawnbroker's is the safest of safe deposits. Searching for clues, suppose the police had detected his preparations, the pledged ticket might have been easily overlooked."
"I used to think," she said, "that motor-car abductions were the invention of sensational writers, but you seem to make a practice of it. You are not very original, Dr. van Heerden. I think I've told you that before." He smiled in the darkness as the car sped smoothly through the deserted streets.
"I'll leave this untidiness for your man to clear," said Kitson. "Where do you go now?" "To see Hilda Glaum if the fates are kind," said Beale. "I'm going to put up a bluff, believing that in her panic she will lead me into the lion's den with the idea of van Heerden making one mouthful of me. I've got to take that risk.
Anyway, I'm not running a Pure Business Campaign. I'm running a campaign against your German friend van Heerden." "A German?" said the virtuous Mr. White in loud astonishment. "Surely not a Holland gentleman " "He's a German and you know it. You've been financing him in a scheme to ruin the greater part of Europe and the United States, to say nothing of Canada, South America, India and Australia."
Van Heerden peered through the window ahead and caught a glimpse of a red lamp. "It is all right," he said, "this must be Putney Common, and I told Gregory to meet me with any news." A man came into the rays of the head-lamp and passed to the door. "Well," asked the doctor, "is there any trouble?" "Where is Beale?" "At the old man's hotel. He has been there all day."
The man called Jackson leapt up from the chair into which he had fallen and bowed extravagantly in the direction of the girl. "I cannot see your face because of your hat, my dear lady," he said gallantly, "but I am sure my friend van Heerden, whose taste " "Will you be quiet?" said van Heerden. "Go to your room and I will come up to you." "Go to my room!" scoffed the other. "By Jove! I like that!
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