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Within a few moments the portion of the floor upon which he had stood returned to its place, and Lennard said to himself: "If the rest of her works like that, she ought to be a lovely study in engineering."
While he was looking at it, Lennard took the bank receipt for a quarter of a million deposit from his pocket and gave it to him, saying: "You will see from this that money is really no object. As you know, Mr Parmenter has millions, more I suppose than he could calculate himself, and he is ready to spend every penny of them. You will take that just as earnest money."
He gave the American a brief yet full account of all that had happened since his receipt of James Allerdyke's wireless message. And Fullaway listened in silence, taking everything in, making no interruption, and at the end he spoke quietly and with decision. "We must find that woman Miss Celia Lennard and at once," he said. "That's absolutely necessary." "Just so," agreed Allerdyke.
He had the general appearance of a brown Jupp, being of the same height and with just such a smiling good-humoured face, with the exception that his hair and beard, instead of being black, was of a lighter and ruddier hue. Oh, yes, Teddy thought, Captain Lennard was the man for him. He looked easy and kind-hearted and would not bully people, as he had read of some brutal captains doing.
Even as he spoke two deep dull bangs shook the atmosphere and the windows of the hotel shivered in their frames. "I'll come," said Lennard. "They seem to have begun already." "Begorra they have," said Denis Castellan, making a dash to the door. "Come on. If that's so, there'll be blood for supper to-night, and the sooner we're aboard the better."
He did not say anything, neither did the others; it was a time for thinking rather than talking; but he looked, and as Lennard watched his almost expressionless face and the angrily-glittering blue eyes, he felt that it would go ill with an enemy whom K. of K. should have at his mercy that day. But all the bitterness of feeling was by no means on one side.
"I will explain everything, Mr Bowcock," replied Lennard, "only, for her own sake, your wife must know nothing at present. The only question is, shall we have a talk to-night or not?" "If it's anything that's bad," replied the big miner with a deeper note in his voice, "I'd soonest hear it now.
You do not recognize the description as that of any man you have ever seen in company with your late maid, Miss Lennard?" "I never saw my maid in any man's company," replied Celia. "Since I first engaged her we have not been much in London. I was in New York and Chicago for a time last year; then in Paris; then in Milan and Turin; lately in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Lennard flushed somewhat suspiciously, and a keen glance of Norah's Irish eyes read the meaning of that flush in an instant. "Miss Parmenter is considered to be very beautiful," he replied, "and I must confess that I share the general opinion." "I thought so," said Norah, with a little nod that had a great deal of meaning in it.
"I come to a sad home, deprived of my young daughter by death, and my son by his perversion to the Church of Rome," answered Mr Lennard, gravely, not noticing the last remark.
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