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"In mercy, Dick" he was catching his breath, flushing, laboring with each word "don't talk about Was the boy killed?" "Killed, no, sound as a nut but you " "That's all," said McBirney, and his eyes closed, and he turned his face to the wall. But he did not go to sleep. He was trying to meet life with self-respect gone.
I hear the Gift of God coming up the stairs, and I've neglected to look up the Future Periphrastic Conjugation and that ticklish difference between the Gerund and the Gerundive, which is vital. One thing more your second postscript. You didn't suppose that I don't, did you? Only, not like me! GEOFFREY McBIRNEY.
Geoffrey McBirney was close to an illness; his attitude toward life was warped; he was reasoning that he had made the girl a test case and that the case had failed; that it was now his duty to stand by the test and give up his work. And then, one day, the letter came. The weather had turned warm in Forest Gate and Arline Baker had got out her summer blouses.
And Dick Marston, as gently as a woman might, took in charge this friend whom he loved. "Don't you worry, Geoffie; the bears shan't eat you this trip. I'll settle the chap next time he calls up." And McBirney fell back, with closed eyelids, relieved, secure in Dick's strength. He lay, breathing quickly, a moment or two, and then opened his eyes. "When can I get away, Dick?"
"This garage," he put in, looking it over critically, "must act as a fence for stolen cars and parts of cars. See, there over in the corner is the stuff for painting new license numbers. Here's enough material to rebuild a half dozen cars. Yes, this is one of the places that ought to interest you and McBirney, Garrick.
He had raised the hood and was straining his eyes to catch a glimpse of the maker's number on the engine, which had been all but obliterated by a few judicious blows of a hammer. Garrick was busy telling McBirney also about the marks of the tire on the floor, as the detective looked over one car after another, as if he had unearthed a veritable treasure-trove.
Give me another chance. I was not going to ask that, but I must. Can't you see I've got to show you? I mean about another chance will you not renew that promise? Will you not send a word in answer to this letter, and promise once more not to do anything decisive until you have heard from me again? I am Sincerely yours, GEOFFREY McBIRNEY. FOREST GATE, August 8th. MY DEAR MR. McBIRNEY
"He's evidently an expert driver of motor cars himself; my man could see that." McBirney had gone. Garrick sat for several minutes gazing squarely at me. Then he leaned back in his chair, with his hands behind his head.
"And, Garrick," he exclaimed, horrified, "the car was all stained with blood!" Garrick looked from one to the other of his visitors intently. Here was an entirely unexpected development in the case which stamped it as set apart from the ordinary. "How did the driver manage to explain it and get away?" he asked quickly. McBirney shook his head in evident disgust at the affair.
When it was stolen we immediately put in motion the usual machinery for tracing stolen cars." "How about the police?" I queried. McBirney looked at me a moment I thought pityingly. "With all deference to the police," he answered indulgently, "it is the insurance companies and not the police who get cars back usually. I suppose it's natural.
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