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So we'll go by the side roads. I was over there three days ago on a motor-bike, so I'll pilot you." And then he turned to gossip merrily with the good-looking American girl, who seemed most enthusiastic concerning our mysterious adventure. "To-night ought to bring us a clear twenty thousand pounds," he said. "More, my dear Teddy," the girl replied.
Left his motor-bike in the garage, and the smell in front of the dining-room window. 8 to 12 p.m. Sat with Private Merited, listening to Lieut. True Born on the mistakes of Wellington. 12.5 a.m. Rose to go to bed. Was about to turn out gas in hall when I discovered the lieutenant standing with his face to the wall playing pat- a-cake with it. Gave him three-parts of a tumbler of brandy.
And it was all for you. And now this is how I'm treated." "Oh, Wilf! You never told me. I never knew about the motor-bike," said Caroline, taken aback. "There's lots of things you don't know about," said Wilf. "However, if you're bent on ending it all, I shan't try to stop you. I aren't one to force myself upon a girl that doesn't want me."
Newton said not to attempt any rescue." "We ain't was going to. Back to headquarters an' report an' me for my motor-bike. Mr. Newton mebbe can get a car in Buffalo Center an' mebbe he can't; but no heavy old buzz-wagon can get where my motor-bike can't catch 'em." Mr. Newton agreed to Chick-chick's plan of chase rather more readily than he had expected.
"I shall have to take the motor-bike and go over to Stunning," he said to himself, "how I shall find my way there in this fog, the Lord only knows! And I don't know whom to apply to when I get there. The police-station, I suppose!" He unlocked the door and rang for Martha. "I have to go over to Stunning, Martha," he said, "I will try and be back for dinner at eight!"
You were there, knocked out of time on the floor, in your disguise as Bellward, so I knew that the man with Strangwise was the real Bellward and I consequently deduced that Strangwise was Mortimer and consequently the very man we had to catch. "We were done brown. If we had had a little more time to think things out, we should have found that motor-bike and I would have gone after the trio myself.
It must be his business to make an opportunity to slip away on the motor-bike to Stanning. Could he leave the meeting for 25 minutes without arousing suspicions? He doubted it; but it must be. There was no other way. And then with a shock that made him cold with fear he remembered Mortimer's motor-car.
"By this time Strangwise and his party had got at least an hour clear start of us. I had set a man to repair the telephone and in the meantime was thinking of sending another on foot to Stanning to fetch one of our cars. Then I found the motor-bike and despatched one of the military policemen on it to Stanning.
You must make him steer a proper course. This is to be the Guide to the Cotswolds. You can't have him sending people back to Lower Wyck Manor all the time. You'll have to know all the places and all the ways." "And I don't." "No. But I do. Supposing I took you on my motor-bike? Would you awfully mind sitting on the carrier?" "Do you think," she said, "he'd let me go?" "Fanny will."
Caroline's lip began to tremble "Wilf, if I'd known about you giving up the motor-bike I wouldn't never have spoken as I did. I do feel a beast. But you have to think about yourself in this world or nobody'll think for you. I can't see any reason in going on as we are doing for years and then getting married when we're both dead sick of it all and of each other. We only keep each other back.
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