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It said, "Wednesday, at Maddock's, 11 P.M. Show this card." And to Maddock's, on Wednesday, at an hour something earlier than eleven, the New Yorker led his guest after a call at one or two clubs. Even from the outside the place had a dilapidated look that surprised Lindsay. The bell was of that brand you keep pulling till you discover it is out of order.
She could feel his terror throbbing over the wire. Though she could not see him, she knew her question had stricken him white. "With him where?" "At this gambling-house Maddock's?" "No, I I Bee, I tell you I'm ill." "He went out last night to join you at your club. I know that. When did you see him last?" "I we didn't he didn't come." "Then didn't you see him at all?"
The gang leader began to sweat blood. Had some one bungled after all the care with which he had laid his plans? A door slammed below. Hurried footsteps sounded on the stair treads. Into the room burst a man. "'Slim' 's been croaked," he blurted. "What!" Durand's eyes dilated. "At Maddock's." "Who did it?" "De guy he was to gun." "Lindsay." "Dat's de fellow." "Did the bulls get Lindsay?"
Maddock's donkey and the little cart, to drive them in, for Norton was more than a mile and a half away, and that was too far, they thought, for Jessie's little feet to walk. So the cart was brought, and granny and grandfather sat on the little wooden seat, while Jessie sat on a rug in the bottom of the cart, at their feet.
Jessie was ten years old, and accustomed to seeing strange rough-looking men about, so that there seemed no reason why she should feel frightened, but she did, and for a moment almost turned and ran back to the friendly shelter of Mrs. Maddock's dairy. Later on she often wished she had, but then, as she told herself, he would probably have run after her and caught her.
"Johnnie told me you had an engagement with Mr. Bromfield." "Did you ever know Johnnie get anything right?" "And Clarendon says he was with you at Maddock's." Clay had not been prepared for this cumulative evidence. He gave a low laugh of relief. "I'm an awful poor liar. So Bromfield says he was with me, does he?" "Yes." He intended to wait for a lead before showing his hand.
Mulville had put before me as dreary, she should have in any degree the air of waiting for her fate; so that I was presently relieved at hearing of her having gone to stay at Coldfield. If she was in England at all while the engagement stood the only proper place for her was under Lady Maddock's wing.
Why had she come to trouble him this morning while he was cowering in fear of the men who would break in to drag him away to prison? "Nothing to tell," he got out with a gulp. "Oh, yes, you have. Are you ill because of what happened at Maddock's?" He tried to pull himself together, to stop the chattering of his teeth. "N-nonsense, my dear. I'm done up completely.
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