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Petersburg, it was quite another thing to prove that they were responsible for splitting his skull. I had nothing to support the idea beyond Joyce's bare word that she had seen McMurtrie in the flat on the afternoon of the murder. Sonia's testimony might have been useful, but after today I could hardly picture her in the witness-box giving evidence on my behalf.
Lyndon," he said slowly, "but if you choose I believe you can do more for England than any man alive." There was a short pause. "It seems to me," interrupted Tommy, "that England is a little bit in Neil's debt already." "That doesn't matter," I observed generously. "Let's hear what Mr. Latimer has got to say." I turned to him. "Who are McMurtrie and Savaroff?"
In an agony of anxiety over possible exclusion, Lilly's words came so fast they hardly allowed for the coherence of spacing. "How do you do, Mrs. McMurtrie? I've returned and I'm fine. I'm so sorry about that that night and the trouble I must have caused you. Thank you for sending my bag after me. It's a girl. She's the best little thing, Mrs. McMurtrie. Doesn't cry at all.
She turned round and looked at me curiously from under her dark eyebrows. "For all what?" she asked. "This," I repeated, waving my hand towards the tray, "and the hot bath last night, and incidentally my life. If it hadn't been for you and Dr. McMurtrie I think my 'career, as the Daily Mail calls it, would be pretty well finished by now."
At least I had my week's "fun" in London to look forward to, and the thought of that alone would have been quite enough to make me go through with anything. I had lied to McMurtrie about my object, but the falsehood, such as it was, did not sit very heavily on my conscience. The precise meaning of "fun" is purely a matter of opinion, and I was as much entitled to my definition as he was to his.
However lonely a place it was, some one would be bound to see me and give me away sooner or later." McMurtrie shook his head. "You may be seen," he said, "but there is no reason why you should be recognized." I paused in the act of lighting my cigarette. "What do you mean?" I asked with some curiosity. "My dear Mr.
"Three cheers for Smith!" shouted some one; horns blurted; from the edge of the crowd the first notes of "For he's a jolly good fellow" were heard, and they sang it through twice, so that those who had missed the beginning should not be hurt in their feelings. "Ladies and gentlemen," began McMurtrie again, when he could make his voice heard, "Mr.
I passed my hand up my face, which was already covered with a thick stubble about half an inch in length. "At the present rate of progress," I said, "I should think about a week." McMurtrie smiled. "Another fortnight on top of that will be nearer the mark, I expect," he said, getting up from the bed. "That will just fit in with our arrangements.
"I shall be vastly grateful for anything," I said, addressing the girl. "Whatever is the least trouble to cook." She nodded and left the room without further remark McMurtrie looking after her with what seemed like a faint gleam of malicious amusement. "I have brought you yesterday's Daily Mail," he said; "I thought it would amuse you to read the description of your escape.
McMurtrie Latimer George" I paused "I'd give something to know what those three do between them," I added regretfully. Tommy gripped my hand. "It's all right, old son," he said. "I'm not much of a believer in inspirations and all that sort of rot, but somehow or other I'm dead certain we're going to win out. I've had a feeling like that ever since the trial and so has Joyce."
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