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The moment they had gone, Curtis, who was obviously the worse for drink, addressed Lilian. "Kelson won't come back," he said. "Hamar is mad with him. He says if he ever sees you two together again he'll sack you. Let me take his place!" A sudden inspiration came to her.
The ship proved to be, not what Kelson had supposed, but a vessel with free emigrants bound out to the rising town of Sydney, in New South Wales a colony generally called Botany Bay, established some few years before, by Captain Phillips of the navy, chiefly with convicts and the necessary soldiers to look after them.
Some men were carrying into the building a huge, oak chest and several large pictures that Mr. Hamar had bought at a sale, when Mr. Kelson arrived on the scene.
"Stop, Jerry, stop!" cried my uncle; "have a glass of grog before you go?" "No, thankee, cap'en," answered Jerry. "I must keep a clear head on my shoulders. If I once takes a taste, maybe I shall want another as I pass the Blue Posteses." Uncle Kelson did not press the point, and the old man took his departure.
It would be easy to ascertain for certain whom she danced with," Morriston said reflectively. "But that again is almost unthinkable." "And," Gifford added, "it seems to go no way towards elucidating the problem of how Henshaw came to his death. As a matter of fact I should say Miss Tredworth danced and sat out nearly the whole of the evening with Kelson. You know he proposed at the dance?"
"Never," Kelson assured her. "Old Dipper came to us, half asleep, at four o'clock to ask whether he was justified in locking up the establishment." "And nothing has been seen or heard of the man since," Gifford put in. "That is queer," Morriston said, as though scarcely knowing whether to take it seriously or otherwise.
He spoke with him for several moments relative to a matter of some consequence, and then, glancing at Miss Rosenberg, and drawing Kelson still further aside, whispered, "Let me caution you again, Matt. On no account let your soft feelings with regard to the other sex get the better of you. Remember it is imperative for us to do evil not good to lead our clients into temptation, not out of it.
Kelson made an irresolute movement as though wavering between the implied invitation to quit the room and an inclination not to run away from the grim business. He glanced at Gifford, who showed no sign of moving. "Just as you like," he replied in a hushed voice. "Perhaps we had better stay here till you come back." "All right," Morriston assented.
"Hardly by the idea that Miss Tredworth had anything to do with the late tragedy," was the quiet answer. "Good heavens, man, I should hope not," Kelson cried vehemently. "That is too monstrously absurd." "What is Miss Tredworth's idea?" "She has none. She is completely mystified. And inclined to be horribly frightened." "Naturally," Gifford commented in the same even tone.
Lilian Rosenberg turned this question over in her mind for a whole day and night, sometimes arriving at one decision, sometimes at another. In the end very elaborately dressed, and looking daintier than she had ever done in her life, she waylaid Kelson and asked him to have tea with her.
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