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So I don't want your company or your money. And I'm going to finish you right away." The big stone was poised over Henson's head. He could see the jagged part, and in imagination feel it go smashing into his brain. The time for action had come. He snatched at Merritt's right arm and drew the knotted fingers down. The next instant and he had bitten Merritt's thumb to the bone.
"And yet I seemed to have an ideal case against you, Mr. Steel," he said. "Seems almost a pity to cut a career like Mr. Henson's short, does it not? Which reminds me that I am wasting time here. Any time you and Van Sneck happen to be passing the police-station the cigar-case is entirely at your disposal." And Marley bustled off upon the errand that meant so much for Reginald Henson.
That was part of the game. And you told him that you had got over your illness and that you were going to do the operation. And you told him how. Where were you when the little conversation between Henson and yourself took place?" "He was asked into the dining-room." "And then you told him everything. Directly Henson's eyes fell upon that wall-plug he knew how to act.
Henson's own language, "the serf was tied to the soil, bought and sold with it, the chattel of his master, who could overwork, beat, and even kill him at will." The phrase "re-established Slavery in a new form," seems to imply that Christianity had abolished Slavery before the barbaric conquests. But it had done nothing of the kind.
Uncle Henson's coachman's coat, long and faded and once brass-buttoned, and a battered hat to match, are always put on to meet the train; and when he held the door open for Father to get in the old, ramshackle thing he did it in a way that could be sold for big money, if manner could be bought, and Father got inside with equal elegance.
When you said that you had been warned of Henson's coming by telegram I was certain." "Then perhaps you guessed that Enid sent me the telegram?" "That was obvious. Also it was obvious that Henson brought Frank Littimer along." "Oh, he did. It was Frank's mission to steal the picture. I confronted him with a revolver and locked him in one of the bedrooms.
He liked to see Henson's modest smirk and beautiful self-abasement, for in sooth his lordship had a pretty contempt for the man who hoped to succeed him. But the will made some time ago by Littimer would have come as a painful shock to the philanthropist. "It is a very pretty tangle as it stands," he said. "Miss Lee, let me compliment you upon your astuteness in this matter.
"But this ain't the way it's going to finish." He darted off in hot pursuit; he raced across a rising shoulder of the hill and cut off Henson's retreat. The latter turned and scurried back in the direction of Long-dean Grange, with Merritt hot on his heels. He could not shake the latter off. Merritt was plodding doggedly on, pretty sure of his game.
I wonder what Reginald Henson would say if he only knew that I had been to the hospital and recognised our mutual friend Van Sneck there!" The expression on Henson's usually benign countenance would have startled such of his friends and admirers as regarded him as a shining light and great example.
When you sold that copy of the 'Crimson Blind' to Lord Littimer had you the other copy?" "Ach, you have got to the bottom of things, it seems," Van Sneck gurgled. "Yes, and I have saved your life, foolish as it might seem," Bell replied. "You came very near to losing it the second attempt last night at Henson's hands. Henson is done for, played out, burst up.