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Your ma says you are to go to bed directly." "No, no, I'll put myself to bed!" "Come, sir, please do, like a good boy Master Pinney won't go without you, and I must put him to bed while they are dishing up. Come, sir, I've got a mince-pie for you." "And some oysters Bobby said I should have some oysters!" "Yes, yes; come along, sir."
"Well, you shall do no such thing, Ren. We won't wait a minute." Pinney broke out into a laugh, and gave her another hug for her enthusiasm, and explained, between laughing at her and kissing her, why he had to wait; that if he used the matter before the detective authorized him, it would be the last tip he would ever get from Manton. "We shan't lose anything.
Pinney said he did not know. He looked at Northwick as if the possession of him gave him very little pleasure, and asked him how he had slept. "I haven't slept," said Northwick. "I suppose I'm rather excited. My nerves seem disordered." "Well, of course," said Pinney, soothingly. They were silent a moment, and then Northwick asked, "What did you say the next station was?" "I'll ask the brakeman."
There began to be suggested to him from somewhere, somehow, something like the thought that if he had really done wrong, there might be rest and help in accepting the legal penalty, disproportionate and excessive as it might be. He tried to make this notion appreciable to Pinney when they first met after he summoned Pinney to Quebec; he offered it as an explanation of his action.
All present regarded the formidable Irishman with awe, excepting the stranger, who gazed at him in contemptuous silence. This enraged the landlord still more, and he cried out 'Bad luck to ye, who are ye, at all at all? Ye're a stranger to all of us ye haven't spint a pinney for the good of the house, for all ye've been toasting yer shins furnist the fire for two hours or more!
"Yes, it's all right. There are ninety-nine chances to one that he was going to Canada. There's a big default, running up into the hundred thousands, and they gave him a chance to make up his shortage it's the old story. I've got just the setting I wanted for my facts, and now, as soon as Manton gives us the word to go ahead " "Wait till Manton gives the word!" cried Mrs. Pinney.
But when Pinney explained that it was the postmark on his letter to the Events that gave him the notion of going to Rimouski, he could see that Northwick was curious to know the effect of that letter with the public. At first he thought he would let him ask; but he perceived that this would be impossible for Northwick, and he decided to say, "That letter was a great sensation, Mr. Northwick."
She said this, and she did not object to the profession itself, except for the dangers that she believed it involved. She did not wish Pinney to incur these, and she would not be laughed out of her fears when he told her that there were lines of detective work that were not half so dangerous, in the long run, as that of a reporter subject to assignment.
And I want you to give me credit for letting you have the idea after you had thought of it." "Yes, there's nothing mean about you, Louise, as Pinney would say. By Jove, I'll bring Pinney in! I'll have Pinney interview Haxard concerning Greenshaw's disappearance." "Very well, then, if you bring Pinney in, you will leave me out," said Louise. "I won't be in the same play with Pinney."
You'll be just as safe there as you are here; you know that; and now that your whereabouts are bound to be known to your friends, you might as well be where they can get at you by telegraph in case of emergency. Come! What do you say?" Northwick said simply, "Yes, I will go with you." "Well, now you're shouting," said Pinney. "Can't I help you to put your traps together?
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