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Updated: June 1, 2025
I mean to go through with this business of McMurtrie's, though I'm sure there's something crooked at the bottom of it. As for the rest " I shrugged my shoulders and sat down on the sofa beside her; "well, I've got the sort of hand one has to play alone." Joyce looked at me quietly and steadily. "Neil," she said; "do you remember that you once called me the most pig-headed infant in Chelsea?"
Then he turned to me. "McMurtrie's got some game on, evidently, and this chap Latimer's dropped on it. That was why they tried to put him out of the way." "Yes," I said, "and if Latimer is really in the secret service, it must be a precious queer sort of game too." Tommy nodded. "I wonder if they're anarchists," he said, after a short pause.
I slowly finished the last spoonful of my second helping, and placed the cup beside me on the floor. It was a clumsy device to gain time, for now that the full consciousness of my surroundings had returned to me, I was beginning to think that Dr. McMurtrie's methods of receiving an escaped convict were, to say the least, a trifle unusual.
It was the face of a complete stranger: at the best that of a hard-bitten war correspondent or explorer; at the worst well, I don't know what it mightn't have been at the worst. I stared and stared in a kind of incredulous fascination, until McMurtrie's voice abruptly recalled me to my surroundings. "Well, Mr. Neil Lyndon," he said, "do you recognize yourself?" I laid down the glass.
"Oh!" she said; "I shouldn't build too much upon our hospitality if I were you." I took the tray from her hands. "I would build upon yours to any extent," I said; "but I am under no illusion whatever about Dr. McMurtrie's disinterestedness. He and your father it is your father, isn't it? are coming up to explain matters as soon as I have had something to eat."
I bobbed down at once behind the sea-wall, and crouched there for a moment wondering what was the best thing to do. After what I had found out it seemed hardly probable that Latimer could be there in the capacity of McMurtrie's caretaker; but if not, how on earth had he hit upon the place, and what was he doing prowling about inside it?
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