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Well, they are going to start a society all through the States and nominate for its president Uncle Theodore." "Will they have any show at all?" Lutchester asked curiously. She shrugged her shoulders. "Who can tell? The German-Americans are very powerful indeed all through the West, and then the pacifists will join them.
"Leave them alone for the present. Not one of them has the formula. Not one of them even knows where it is." "But the attack upon me?" "You asked for all you got," Lutchester told him curtly, "and perhaps a little more." The first tinge of colour came back to Graham's cheeks. His eyes flashed with anger.
Supposing for a moment that Lutchester was also out for the great things, was he fooled by her attitude? If he knew so much, he must know that the secret remained with her. Perhaps, after all, he was only a philanderer in intrigue.... Pamela bathed and dressed, sent for her brother, and, to his horror, insisted upon an American breakfast.
One of the nearest of the hastening figures was a policeman. He turned the revolver against his own temple and pulled the trigger.... Lutchester and a policeman walked slowly back along Fifth Avenue. Behind them, a little crowd was still gathered around the spot from which the body of the dead man had already been removed in an ambulance.
The mysterious escape of Sandy Graham, which had sent him flying from the country, remained unsolved. Of Pamela's share in it he had already his suspicions. Was it possible that Lutchester was the other and the central figure in that remarkable rescue? He waited his opportunity, and, during a momentary lull in the cheerful conversation, broke in with his first question. "Say, Mr.
Van Teyl observed, making spasmodic movements with his wrists. "When could we have a day down at Baltusrol?" "It will have to be next week, I'm afraid, if you don't mind," Lutchester replied. "I've a good many appointments in New York, and I may have to go to Washington myself. By the bye, I thought our host lived there." "So he does," Van Teyl assented.
"I knew exactly what they were going to do to Captain Graham, and I got there before them. When they searched him, the formula had gone. Fischer caught my steamer and worried me all the way over. He thought he had us in a corner last night, and then a miracle happened." "You mean that fellow Lutchester turning up?" "Yes, I mean that," Pamela admitted.
Let's go out to the Country Club and have a few sets of tennis or a game of golf, whichever you prefer," he suggested. "I've done my little lot till the evening." "Show on to-night, isn't there?" Lutchester inquired. "Just a reception. You're going to put in an appearance?" "I fancy so. Have you got your list of guests handy?"
I have no work, no engagements just one friend with whom to talk. My fine clothes have done. I am myself," she added, stretching out her arms. "I have my cigarettes, my iced sherbet, and the lights and murmur of the city there below to soothe me. And you to talk with me, my friend. What are you thinking of me that I am a little animal who loves comfort too much, eh?" Lutchester smiled.
"Sorry," Lutchester replied, "I was down at the barber's the first time you got through, and then I had some cables to send off." "Look here," Van Teyl continued, gripping him by the shoulder, "is six hundred and forty thousand dollars, or thereabouts, profit enough for you on your Anglo-French?"
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