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If we've got a mug we want to lead down the easy path, why, there's nobody in London who can do it like Lollie. And I understand you had some disagreement with the young lady over Maisie White?" "She interfered " began Pinto. "And probably saved your life," remarked the colonel meaningly. "No, you have no kick against Lollie for that."
"You'll pay for that," he said breathlessly, but "Swell" Crewe had walked to the girl and had laid his hand on her shoulder. "Lollie," he said, "I'm believing you and I think the colonel is, too. If you're going out of the country, why I'll say good luck to you. You've made a very wise decision and one which we shall all make some of us perhaps too late." "Wait a moment," said the colonel.
Stafford King went to the Cunard office in Cockspur Street and booked cabin seventeen on the shelter deck of the Lapland for New York." "In what name?" "In the name of Miss Isabel Trenton." The colonel nodded. It was a name that Lollie had used before, and the story rang true. "When does the Lapland sail?" he asked, and again the detective consulted his book.
"That's queer, he never mentioned Lollie Marsh!" He was deep in thought for a few moments, then he went on: "So he's worked off Phillopolis, has he? Well, Phillopolis has got to take his medicine. I can do nothing for him." "But surely he can prove " began Pinto. "What can he prove?" asked the other. "Can he prove how he earns his money?
"Do you imagine I should leave you, colonel, if you were in for a bad time?" "Do I imagine it?" The colonel laughed. "Don't be a fool. Sit down. When did you see Lollie Marsh last?" Pinto considered. "I haven't seen her for weeks." "Neither have I," said the colonel. "Of course she has an excuse for staying away. She never comes unless she's sent for.
They arrested Pinto to-night we only just heard of it." "Arrested Silva?" said the girl in surprise. "That is news to me. What is the charge?" "I didn't quite understand what the charge was. I know he's arrested," said Lollie. "The colonel has advised me to get out as quickly as I can. And there's a big chance for me, Miss White. I'm going to be married!"
The only thing we've got to do to-night is to make absolutely sure that all those fool letters he wrote to Lollie have been destroyed." "You've got them?" said the girl quickly. "I had them?" said the colonel, "and I burnt them all except one when the transfer was completed. And the question is, gentlemen," he said, "shall we burn the last?"
Lollie Marsh had no doubt as to why she had been summoned. Her pretty face was drawn, the hands which were clasped on the table before her were restless, but what Crewe noticed more particularly was a certain untidiness both in her costume and in her usually well-coiffured hair. As though wearying of the part she had been playing, she was already discarding her makeup.
She's at a little place at Putney Heath, a house I took specially for her, surrounded by loving guardians " "Like Pinto?" asked the man, looking down at the silent Silva. "Like Lollie. Now you can't deny that Lollie's a very nice girl," said the colonel. "Sit down, Solomon, and talk things over." "When I've got my girl I'll talk things over with you. Where is this place?"
"Thank you, Lollie," he said simply. "I'm glad that you didn't go with Selby you would never have got to the Continent alive." He said this in an ordinary conversational tone, and the girl gasped. She did not ask him for an explanation and he offered none. Crewe, standing in the background, looked at the man with something like bewilderment.
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