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"I don't like it," Mr. Hutchings was saying. "It's inspired by Gulmore, and he always means what he says and something more." "Except the suggestion that my father had certain good, or rather bad, reasons for leaving Kentucky, it seems to me merely spiteful. It's very vilely written." "He only begins with your father.
Flexen took out his pipe, lit it, and moved to an easy-chair to let his brain work more easily. He tabulated his facts. Colonel Grey had gone through the library window at about twenty minutes past ten. Hutchings had gone through the library window at half-past ten. The mysterious woman had gone through the library window at about ten minutes to eleven.
Manley in a tone of hearty congratulation. "Your going away for a trifle after all the years you've been here was a silly business." "Thank you, sir," said Hutchings gratefully. When Hutchings had gone, Mr. Flexen said: "It's all very well your talking, but it was you who suggested that Lady Loudwater was a woman of strong primitive emotions with a strain of Italian blood in her."
He could not see where any more evidence against Hutchings was to come from. What Mr. Manley had told him about the knife, that it had been in general use, and that he had seen Hutchings cut string with it the day before the murder, greatly lessened its value as evidence, even if Hutchings' finger-prints were thick on it.
"How could Hutchings have been so ?" With the belief in the lawyer's guilt came the understanding that he too was concerned, suspected even. Disgust of traitorism, conscious innocence impelled him to clear himself but how? To his surprise he found that companionship with these men had given him some insight into their character. He put the question to Simpson: "Can anything be done now?"
"I don't like it," Mr. Hutchings was saying. "It's inspired by Gulmore, and he always means what he says and something more." "Except the suggestion that my father had certain good, or rather bad, reasons for leaving Kentucky, it seems to me merely spiteful. It's very vilely written." "He only begins with your father.
Let him lose his place and be thrown out of work, then we'll see if May Hutchings," and she laughed, "will go and help him. We'll see who is " Her father interrupted her in the middle of a tirade which would have been complete self-revelation; but it is not to be presumed that he did this out of a delicate regard for his daughter's feelings. He had got the information he required.
Professor Roberts was the centre of the group, and by his side stood dainty May Hutchings, the violet eyes intense with courage that held the sweet lips to a smile. Around them were some ten or a dozen students and Krazinski, all in the highest spirits. They were talking about Roberts' new appointment at Yale, which he attributed to Krazinsk's influence.
"You wish me to believe that you resigned at the last moment without telling me of your intention in order to further my interests?" Mr. Hutchings was disagreeably shocked by the disdainful, incredulous question; Roberts was harder to blind than he had supposed; his indignation became more than half sincere. "I didn't make up my mind till the last minute I couldn't.
He was more strongly than ever resolved to prevent, if he could, the gamekeeper from setting afoot a scandal about Lady Loudwater which could be of no service to the police or any one else. "Everybody says as James Hutchings did it, sir," said William Roper. "H'm! And what do they say about the mysterious lady the papers are talking about the lady you saw?"
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