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"It may, of course," Littleson answered. "I don't think so, though. He doesn't move a yard without being shadowed, and he hasn't written out a cable when some one hasn't been near his shoulder." "That is the position, then, so far as you know it?" Duge asked. "Absolutely!" Littleson answered. "I can tell you nothing more." Duge finished his luncheon and signed the bill.
"That little fool of a Leslie, the outside broker, must have given us away. I was afraid of him from the first. He was always Duge's man." A clerk knocked at the door. He entered, bearing a card. "Mr. Norris Vine wishes to see you, sir!" he announced. Weiss and Littleson exchanged swift glances. The same thought flashed into both their minds. Neither spoke for fully a minute.
"As a matter of fact, my business concerns also Mr. Littleson. In fact, there are two other of your friends whom I should have been equally glad to have seen here." "Indeed!" Weiss answered. "You mean?" "Mr. Bardsley and Mr. Seth Higgins," Vine replied. "No doubt," Weiss said, "Littleson and I will be able to convey to them anything you may have to say. Come to the point! What is it?
I had hoped something from this illness of his, but the thing goes on. Do you know whether he is really laid up, or whether this is part of a scheme?" "I am not sure," she answered. "I have been told to-day that it is part of a scheme." "Who told you?" he asked quickly. "Peter Littleson," she answered. "I have been lunching with him." "Peter Littleson!" he interrupted.
"It is my turn," she said, "to tell you that you do not understand my father. He would never forgive me, nor do I want him to. If you think that I was the tool of these men Littleson and Weiss, you make a mistake. What I did, I did for the sake of the only man I have ever cared for. Never mind his name, never mind who he is.
"I cannot see the faintest use," she answered, "in my going to visit your friends. I have really and absolutely parted with the paper, and the person in whose possession it is will no doubt communicate with you." "His name?" Littleson demanded. "I must know his name." "That," she answered, "I decline to tell you; but I dare say, if you hurry back to Mr.
He went to his stateroom a little thoughtfully. It had not yet occurred to him that Virginia's errand to London and his might possibly have something in common. Littleson, before many hours of their voyage had passed, became conscious that Virginia was showing a slight but unmistakable desire to avoid his society.
You will probably hear before long who has it." Littleson was speechless. All manner of horrible fears oppressed him. "You must tell me," he insisted hoarsely, "where it is, who has got it! This is infamous! Why, if I had not told you " "I should not have known anything about it," she interrupted. "Quite true! I suppose I ought to thank you.
It's maddening to think of." "Oh, rot!" Littleson declared. "You can imagine everything if you try. There are the doctor's bulletins! We've had a dozen detectives all round the place, and there is not a single murmur of his having been seen by any one, or known to have even dictated a letter." "I've never known him sick for a day in my life," Bardsley said thickly.
He abandoned his somewhat negligent attitude, and sat up with an attentive expression. "What do you mean?" he asked. Weiss struck the table in front of him with his open hand. "Don't you know," he said, "that Bardsley, Littleson, Higgins, Phineas Duge, and myself, are the blood and the muscle of this country, so far as regards finance? Every one of the great railroad stocks is controlled by us.
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