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Semitopolis's generosity binds me to even greater exertion," said the drawing-master. "The whole business was unfortunate; it was I need not disguise it from you it was illegal from the first: the more reason that I should try to behave like a gentleman," concluded Pitman, flushing. "I have nothing to say to that," returned the lawyer.
"Well, then," said Morris, "what have you done with the money?" "I know nothing about any money," said Pitman. "You needn't try that on," said Morris. "I have tracked you down; you came to the station sacrilegiously disguised as a clergyman, procured my barrel, opened it, rifled the body, and cashed the bill. I have been to the bank, I tell you!
He might have got your name, and got it incorrectly, at the station; and he might have failed to get your address. I grant the vanman. But a question: Do you really wish to meet the vanman?" "Why should I not?" asked Pitman.
But here, in real life, I might walk the streets till I dropped dead, and none of the criminal classes would look near me. Though, to be sure, there is always Pitman," he added thoughtfully. Anxiety the Third: The Cottage at Browndean; or, The Underpaid Accomplice. For he had an accomplice, and that accomplice was blooming unseen in a damp cottage in Hampshire with empty pockets.
"Nothing's the matter with 'im," Pitman retorted, visibly angered by what he regarded as the interference of outsiders in his private affairs. "Well, I know he fainted," Dixie said, calmly, "but we won't argue about it.
When Mr Pitman returned to the studio, he was appalled to observe his guide, philosopher, and friend performing miracles of execution on the silent grand. 'Heaven help me! thought the little man, 'I fear he has been drinking!
I want to provide for my future too as it happens; and my good friend who's to help me to that the most charming of women this time disapproves of divorce quite as much as Mr. French. Don't you see," Mr. Pitman candidly asked, "what that by itself must have done toward attaching me to her? She has got to be talked to to be told how little I could help it."
Nelson was a great fighter; and it was therefore considered dangerous to quarrel with him. Stephenson was so unfortunate as not to be able to please this pitman by the way in which he drew him out of the pit; and Nelson swore at him grossly because of the alleged clumsiness of his brakeing. George defended himself, and appealed to the testimony of the other workmen.
But well, that seems unhappily to be the case. I have left the bill for eight hundred pounds in Uncle Joseph's pocket. But if Pitman is only a dishonest man, the presence of this bill may lead him to keep the whole thing dark and throw the body into the New Cut. Yes, but if Pitman is dishonest and finds the bill, he will know who Joseph is, and he may blackmail me.
"And why would she do that?" he asked mockingly. "Was it out of fashion?" "That's Mrs. Ladley's coat," I persisted, but Molly Maguire jerked it from me and started away. He stood there looking at me and smiling in his nasty way. "This excitement is telling on you, Mrs. Pitman," he said coolly. "You're too emotional for detective work." Then he went in and shut the door.
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