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Your indignation does you credit; but it is never well to have a shot at a rabbit before he's fairly out of the hole, and you are sure that it isn't the ferret you sent in after him. Anything in the way of a conveyance handy, Mr. Narkom?" "Yes the limousine. I came down in it yesterday. It's over at the Rose and Crown." "Good! Then perhaps Captain Morford will meet us there in a half hour's time.
To think that it is the end! And to think that it was he that dear, kind 'uncle' of whom they all were so fond!" she said. "I could scarcely believe it when Captain Morford brought the news. It made me quite faint for the moment it was so unexpected, so horrible!"
Ah, think of it! of that whole family of six persons, but three are left: Miriam, Flora, and Ronald." "Miriam, Flora, and ... Miss Lorne, will you tell me please the name of the lady to whom Captain Morford is engaged?" "Why Miriam Comstock, of course did I forget to mention it?"
Cleek looked up sharply, and there was a curious break in his voice, a yet more curious brightening of his eyes. "Miss Lorne, am I to understand that this Captain Morford is engaged to a girl who has brothers?" "Yes. That is no. She has 'brothers' no longer. There is only one left living now, Mr. Cleek, only one.
Captain Morford is within easy call and has agreed to come when he is wanted. Do go, do go quickly, Mr. Cleek. There's someone coming up the road and I am horribly frightened." "But why? It is merely a farm labourer," said Cleek, glancing through the open side of the lich-gate and down the road. "You can see that for yourself." "Yes, but who knows? who can tell?
I have been trying to soothe and to comfort a distracted girl, a half-crazed old man, a bereft and horribly smitten family. I have been doing all in my power to put hope and courage into the heart of a despairing and most unhappy lover." "Meaning Captain Morford?" "Yes. He has been almost beside himself.
No, not alive now; that fellow had his brains blown out in a bar-room brawl before I left New Zealand." "New Zealand?" struck in Captain Morford agitatedly. "I say, that's a rum go, isn't it, Mr. Narkom. New Zealand is where the Comstocks come from or, rather, the father and mother did." "By Jove! Cleek, that looks suspicious, old chap," chimed in Narkom.
Bartholomew's, and would have qualified, but that the sudden death of his father compelled him to abandon the hope and to assume the responsibilities of the head of the house of Morford & Morford, tea importers, of Mincing Lane." "Yes; that's quite correct.
"I think so," said Cleek; and shook out a little jerky laugh, and stood looking at her foolishly; not quite knowing what to do with his feet and hands. But suddenly "Oh come, let's have the case let's have it at once," he broke out impetuously. "Tell me what it is, what I'm to do for this Captain Morford, and I'll do it if mortal man can."
"Takes it hard, poor old chap, doesn't he?" whispered Narkom, glancing round and getting something of a shock when he saw that Cleek, who a moment before had appeared to be almost on the verge of tears, was now fumbling in his coat pockets, and, with indrawn lips and knotted brows, was scowling absolutely scowling in the direction where Captain Morford stood, biting his lips and drumming with his finger nails upon the edge of the washstand.
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