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Think I was going to flinch before a chump like Moriway, even if I had walked straight into his trap? "It isn't?" I exclaimed. "No. Latimer's note to Mrs. Kingdon said the diamonds were found in the bell-boy's jacket the thief had left behind him." "Well! It only shows what a bad habit lying is. Nora must have fibbed to me, for the pure pleasure of fibbing. I'll never dare to trust her again.
A love-letter from Moriway, to a woman twenty years older than himself 'tain't a bad lay, Tom Dorgan, but you needn't try it. At first she watched every move I made, but later, as her headache grew worse, she got desperate. So then I put my hand down into the shoe-bag and found the key, where it had slipped under a fold of cloth. Do you suppose that woman was grateful? She snatched it from me.
Kingdon's gowns a clever bell-boy it takes to find a woman's pocket, but even the real masculine ones among 'em are half feminine; they've had so much to do with women. I rummaged through her writing-desk, and, in searching a gold-cornered pad, found a note from Moriway hidden under the corner. I hid it again carefully in my coat pocket.
"Are you sure you don't belong in Sing Sing, Mr. Moriway?" I can see his face yet, Mag, and every time I think of it, it makes me nearly die of laughing. He had actually been fooled another time. It was worth the trip up there, to make a guy of him once more. And whether it was or not, Mag, it was all I got, after all. For would you believe Tom Dorgan would turn out such a sorehead?
"Excuse me, Mr. Latimer." The cop came in as he spoke, Moriway following; the rest of the hounds hung about. "There's a thieving bell-boy from the hotel that's somewhere in your grounds. Can I come in and get him?" "In here, Sergeant? Aren't you mistaken?" "No; Mr. Moriway here saw him jump the gate not five minutes since." "Strange, and I here all the time! I may have dozed of, though.
"I beg your pardon, Mr. was Moriway the name? I must have interrupted you, but my eyes are troubling me this evening, and I can't bear the light. Miss Omar, I thought the housekeeper had instructed you: one ring means lights, two mean I want Burnett. Here he comes... Burnett, take Sergeant Mulhill through the place. He's looking for a thief. You will accompany the Sergeant, Mr. Moriway?"
And, Mag, it would be hard to say which of us would have been happier if it had been the truth. Oh, to meet Moriway, bound sure enough for Sing Sing! He got up and came over to me, smiling wickedly. He took the seat behind me, and leaning forward, said softly: "Is Miss Omar engaged to read to some invalid up at Sing Sing? And for how long a term I should say, engagement?"
My hair was very heavy and long, and I had a chance to sit in a window at Troyon's where they were advertising a hair tonic and " Rotten? Of course it was. I'd no business to gabble, and just because you and your new job, Mag, came to my mind at that minute, there I went putting my foot in it. Moriway laughed. I didn't like the sound of his laugh. "Your reader is versatile, Mr. Latimer," he said.
I turned on him so furious I thought I didn't care what came of it when over by the great gate-post I saw a man crouching Moriway. I sat down again and pulled the book farther toward the light. We didn't learn much poetry at the Cruelty, did we, Mag? But I know some now, just the same. When I began to read I heard only one word Moriway Moriway Moriway.
"Yes." Latimer smoothed the soft silk rug that lay over him. "Poverty and that sort of versatility are often bedfellows, eh?... Tell me, Mr. Moriway, these lost diamonds are yours?" "No. They belong to a a friend of mine, Mrs. Kingdon." "Oh! the old lady who was married this afternoon to a young fortune-hunter!" I couldn't resist it. Moriway jumped out of his seat.
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