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"Have you no theory yourself, Merriman?" "None. I was completely puzzled. I would have mentioned it before, only it seemed to be making a mountain out of nothing." "I think Jelfs' question should be answered, you know," Drake said critically, and after some more good-natured chaff the subject dropped. Shortly after one of the men had to leave to catch his train, and the party broke up.
Maybe some of you could throw some light on it?" "Proceed, my dear sir, with your trivial narrative," invited Jelfs, a man sitting at one end of the group. "We shall give it the weighty consideration which it doubtless deserves." Jelfs was a stockbroker and the professional wit of the party. He was a good soul, but boring. Merriman took no notice of the interruption.
The Jelfs entertained him with that sort of observant courtesy which falls to the lot of the rich relation; the children made much of him; and the old butler, albeit somewhat surly "to the general," treated him with deference. I thought, observing him by the vague mixture of lamplight and twilight, that Mrs.
"And what happened?" asked Drake, another of the men, when he had finished. "Nothing more happened," Merriman returned. "The manager came and gave me some petrol, and I cleared out. The point is, why should that number plate have been changed?" Jelfs fixed his eyes on the speaker, and gave the little sidelong nod which indicated to the others that another joke was about to be perpetrated.
The Jelfs entertained him with that sort of observant courtesy which falls to the lot of the rich relation, the children made much of him, and the old butler, albeit somewhat surly "to the general," treated him with deference. I thought, observing him by the vague mixture of lamplight and twilight, that Mrs.
"It was 4 on the road, and 3 at the mill, and I'm as sure of it as that you're an amiable imbecile." "Inconclusive," murmured Jelfs, "entirely inconclusive. But," he persisted, "you must not hold back material evidence. You haven't told us yet what you had at lunch." "Oh, stow it, Jelfs," said Hilliard, a thin-faced, eager-looking young man who had not yet spoken.
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