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He was a long time gone, and evidently his "friend" was unprepared to receive visitors at that hour, or else Phillopolis himself had some reason for postponing the invitation. The reason for the delay was explained in a sensational manner. Suddenly the door opened and a man came out.
The colonel faced him squarely. "You've had your chance with the girl and you've missed it," he said. "You've tried your fancy method of courting and you've fallen down." "But I'm not going to stand for Phillopolis," said the other, with tense face. "I tell you I like the girl. There's going to be none of that " "Oh, there isn't, isn't there?" said the colonel in his silkiest tone.
It is just round the corner," said Phillopolis. "Will you walk there with me?" Pinto hesitated. "Yes, I will," he said. He wanted to see the sort of establishment which Phillopolis maintained. They chatted together till they came to the street, and then Phillopolis stopped. "Do you mind if I go ahead?" he said. "I have a friend there who might be worried by your coming." Pinto smiled to himself.
"Taken Phillopolis?" he repeated slowly. "On what charge?" "For being the receiver of stolen property," said the other. "They found the proceeds of the Regent Street burglary in his apartments." The colonel opened his mouth to speak, then shut it again, and there was silence for two or three minutes. "I see. They have planted the stuff on him, have they?" "What do you mean?" asked Pinto.
"I wonder that a man like you, who is in the heart of things, stays on when the net is drawing round the old man." "Loyalty is a vice with me," said Pinto virtuously. "Besides, there's no reason to bolt as yet." "I'm going whilst I'm safe," said Phillopolis, sipping his champagne. "At present the police have nothing against me and I'm going to take good care they have nothing.
Phillopolis, which did not appear in any bill of lading. Dazed-looking Armenian girls, girls from South Russia, from Greece, from Smyrna, en route to a promised land, looked forward to the realisation of those wonderful visions which the Greek agent had so carefully sketched.
"That's queer, he never mentioned Lollie Marsh!" He was deep in thought for a few moments, then he went on: "So he's worked off Phillopolis, has he? Well, Phillopolis has got to take his medicine. I can do nothing for him." "But surely he can prove " began Pinto. "What can he prove?" asked the other. "Can he prove how he earns his money?
As Silva anticipated, the colonel was up and waiting for him. He was playing Patience on his desk and looked up with a scowl as the Portuguese entered. "So you've been skulking, have you, Pinto?" he began, but the other interrupted him. "You can keep all that talk for another time," he said. "They've taken Phillopolis!" The colonel swept his cards aside with a quick, nervous gesture.
"You heard it before?" said Pinto. "Here?" "Here in this room," said the colonel. "I thought I was going daft. You're the first person who has heard it besides myself." He looked at Pinto. "A hell of a prospect, isn't it?" he said gloomily. "Let's talk about the weather!" There was no hope for Phillopolis from the first.
"He hasn't a ghost of a chance," reported Selby, who had a lifelong acquaintance with criminals of the meaner sort, and had spent no small amount of his time in police courts, securing evidence as to the virtue of his protégés. "If he doesn't get ten years I'm a Dutchman." "What does Phillopolis say?"
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