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He couldn't picture her entangled in any of Paredes's purposes. Her dislike of the man was complete and open. But he saw that Rawlins out of the mass of apparently inexplicable clues had extracted this material one and would follow it desperately no matter who was hurt; and Robinson was behind him.
He recalled Paredes's suspicion of the girl. "It's nonsense, Katherine. And I'm to blame for that, too." She put her finger to her lips. Her smile was wistful. "Hush! You mustn't blame yourself. You mustn't think of that." Again her solicitude, their isolation in a darkened place, tempted him, aroused impulses nearly irresistible.
Rawlins came back from the telephone. He took in the tableau. "What's the rumpus?" "Run this man to Smithtown," Robinson directed. "Lock him up, and tell the judge, when he's arraigned in the morning, that I want him held as a material witness." "He was at the hotel in Smithtown all right," Rawlins said. He tapped Paredes's arm. "You coming on this little joy ride like a lamb or a lion?
None of them could forget for a moment that it led to the private hall outside the room in which the murders had been committed. It occurred to Bobby that the triumph Graham's face expressed was out of keeping with the man. It disturbed him nearly as thoroughly as Paredes's stealthy presence in that place. "We've got him," Graham whispered.
Bobby talked with men who knew him, but he learned nothing. Paredes's friends had had no word since the man's departure for the Cedars the day before. So they turned their backs on the city, elated by the significance of Maria's absence, yet worried by the search and the watchful car which never lost sight of them. When they were in the country Graham sighed his relief. "You haven't been stopped.
It placed him, to an extent, on Paredes's side. It urged him, when Paredes had gone on downstairs, to spring almost eagerly to his defence. "As Hartley says," Katherine began, "he makes you think of a snake. He must see we dislike and resent him." "You and Hartley, perhaps," Bobby said. "Carlos says he is here to help me. I've no reason to disbelieve him."
Blackburn that it is no place to stay." And while he talked with Robinson in the library Bobby caught at times the crunching of Paredes's feet in the court. "Why does that court draw him?" Robinson asked. "Why does he keep repeating that it is full of ghosts? He can't be trying to scare us with that now." But Bobby didn't answer.
Bobby tried to account for Paredes's friendly manner. That he should have come back at all was sufficiently strange, but it was harder to understand why he should express no resentment for his treatment yesterday, why he should fail to refer to Bobby's questions at the moment of his arrest, or to the openly expressed enmity of Graham. Only one theory promised to fit at all.
He settles himself in the Cedars again." "I don't know what to think of it," Bobby answered. "This morning Carlos gave me the creeps." Graham glanced at him curiously. He spoke with pronounced deliberation, startling Bobby; for this friend expressed practically the thought that Paredes's arrival had driven into his own mind. "Gave me the creeps, too.
As she went the snow melted from her hat and cloak. She became a black figure again. With an appearance of having been immersed in water she sank on the hearth, swaying back and forth, reaching blindly for Paredes's hand. "Do what you please with me, Carlos," she whimpered with her slight accent from which all the music had fled. "I couldn't stand it another minute.
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