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The last words were flung at Littimer with contemptuous command. The hot blood flared into the young man's face. Enid's eyes flashed. "If my cousin likes to stay here," she said, "why " "He is coming with me," Henson said, hoarsely. "Do you understand? With me! And if I like to drag him or you, my pretty lady to the end of the world or the gates of perdition, you will have to come.
'I will keep you a close prisoner here for two days, and if at the end of that time nothing happens, you die. If, on the other hand, a child is born to you, then you shall go from here a free man. "And so the compact was made. Unfortunately or fortunately, as the case may be, the story got abroad, and some indiscreet person carried the news to Dame Littimer.
And you fancy you are in no way to blame; you imagine that you acted in the only way consistent with your position and dignity. You fancied that your son was a vulgar thief. And I am under the impression that Lady Littimer had money." "She had a large fortune," Littimer said, faintly. "Miss Lee, do you know that I have a great mind to box your ears?" Chris laughed unsteadily.
The omnifarious assembly included pale, prim-whiskered young clerks; shabby, lonely, sallow young women, whose sallowness and shabbiness stamped them with the mark of integrity; other females whose specious splendor was not nearly so reassuring; old men, broken-down men, middle-aged men of every description, except the well-to-do. "Some of them," Littimer reflected, "are no worse than I am.
The frame is made of iron and it is fixed to the wall by four long stays. It's a neat job, though I say it myself; I persuaded Lord Littimer to have it done. And when I heard you two prowling about down there I was glad. I've got the other one safe." "Oh, you've got the other one safe?" Henson said, blankly.
Really, his mortification was so great that the accident seemed to him to put an end to all his hopes of further relations with Blanche and her father. "Oh, I assure you," he said, rising, "that makes no difference at all! I'm sorry I mentioned the matter. Pray tell Mr. Littimer not to think of it. I I believe I'd better go now, Miss Littimer."
She had not expected anything like this; and when had Rawlins found time for those brilliant predatory schemes that she had heard of? "Well, what do you think of them?" Littimer asked, when at length he and Chris were alone. "I suppose it isn't possible that you and I have made a mistake?" "I'm afraid not," Chris said, half sadly. "But what a strange case altogether." "Passing strange.
Well, one can only die once." Chris bustled away to make the necessary arrangements. Some few hours later Lord Littimer was looking out from his luxurious private sitting-room with the assumption of being a martyr. He and Chris were dressed for dinner; they were waiting for the bell to summon them to the dining-room.
"Kind of brazening it out, you mean?" "Yes. Lord Littimer would give three times ten thousand pounds to have that ring again. But at this point Henson has met with a serious check in his plans. Driven into a corner, he has resolved to make a clean breast of it to Lord Littimer. He procures the ring from his strong box, and then he makes a discovery." "Which is more than I have. Pray proceed."
Also he knew that it would be returned to Littimer, and that the stolen plate could be laid aside and produced at some remote date as an original find. The find has been mine, and it will go hard if I can't get to the bottom of the mystery now.
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