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"Take care of me," she whispered. "I I love you so." Her arm went timidly about his shoulders. "Do you want to know my name? It's Mary " Mary what? The answer was seemingly of no importance, for Mr. Magee's lips were on hers, crushing the word at its birth. So they stood, amid Mrs. Norton's gloomy objects of art. And presently she asked: "How about the book, dear?" But Mr. Magee had forgot.
"I must leave you just a moment " Billy Magee's heart beat wildly. His breath came fast. He seized her by the hand. "You're never going to leave me again," he cried. "Don't you know that? I thought you knew. You're mine. I love you. I love you. It's all I can say, my dearest. Look at me look at me, please." "It has happened so quickly," she murmured.
First of which, I may mention, is a little talk with me." He stepped into the room, and through the doorway he vacated Mr. Max came slinking. The unlovely face of the foe of suspicion was badly bruised, and he looked upon the world with no cheerful eye. Pushing aside one of the frail bedroom chairs as untrustworthy, the mayor sat down on the edge of Mr. Magee's bed. It creaked in protest.
The others looked at him in wonder. "I heard steps up-stairs," he declared. "Nonsense," said Mr. Cargan, "you're dreaming. This peace and quiet has got to you, Bland." Without replying, Mr. Bland rose and ran up the stair. In his absence the Hermit of Baldpate spoke into Magee's ear.
Magee's eyes strayed to where the two victims of the dead man's falsehood whispered together in the shadows, and he wondered at the calmness with which Kendrick had greeted Hayden in the room above. "When Kendrick arrived," Professor Bolton went on, "first of all he consulted his old friend Drayton.
I'm not equal to that one." He picked up their traveling-bags and led the way up-stairs. "I'm something of a bell-boy myself, when roused," he said. The girl selected suite seventeen, at the farther end of the corridor from Magee's apartments. "It's the very one I used to have, years and years ago at least two or three years ago," she said. "Isn't it stupid? All the furniture in a heap."
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