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You have made it your business to know all about him, no doubt. Riderhood said what he did know, and promised to find out in a few minutes what he didn't know. 'Stop, said Mr Inspector; 'not till I tell you: We mustn't look like business. Would you two gentlemen object to making a pretence of taking a glass of something in my company at the Fellowships?
'How do you know it was sunk by the man who wore it? asked Bradley. 'Cause I see him do it, said Riderhood. They looked at each other. Bradley, slowly withdrawing his eyes, turned his face to the black board and slowly wiped his name out.
No one could pass in or out without being seen. 'But it will be light at five, said Mr Inspector, 'and then WE shall be seen. 'Look here, said Riderhood, 'what do you say to this? He may have been lurking in and out, and just holding his own betwixt two or three bridges, for hours back. 'What do you make of that? said Mr Inspector. Stoical, but contradictory.
So, when the words were all spoken, he too kneeled on one knee on the grass, and the two men looked at one another. 'Oh! said Riderhood, very deliberately spitting out the grass he had been chewing. 'Then, I make out, T'otherest, as he is a-going to her? 'He left London, answered Bradley, 'yesterday. I have hardly a doubt, this time, that at last he is going to her. 'You ain't sure, then?
It was not until he was so decidedly upon his way again as to be beyond a bend of the river and for the time out of view, that Riderhood scrambled from the ditch. 'Now, was his debate with himself 'shall I foller you on, or shall I let you loose for this once, and go a fishing? The debate continuing, he followed, as a precautionary measure in any case, and got him again in sight.
But, not to be still further defrauded and overreached which he would be, if implicated by Riderhood, and punished by the law for his abject failure, as though it had been a success he kept close in his school during the day, ventured out warily at night, and went no more to the railway station.
'You've got away once, and I won't run the chance agin. I've had trouble enough to find you, and shouldn't have found you, if I hadn't seen you slipping along the street overnight, and watched you till you was safe housed. I'll have one settlement with you for good and all. 'Riderhood, I am a man who has lived a retired life. I have no resources beyond myself. I have absolutely no friends.
Both ate and drank, but Riderhood much the more abundantly. In lieu of plates, that honest man cut two triangular pieces from the thick crust of the pie, and laid them, inside uppermost, upon the table: the one before himself, and the other before his guest.
Such breakfast as he had, he took at the comfortless public-house where he had parted from Riderhood on the occasion of their night-walk. He took it, standing at the littered bar, and looked loweringly at a man who stood where Riderhood had stood that early morning. He outwalked the short day, and was on the towing-path by the river, somewhat footsore, when the night closed in.
'Let go! said Riderhood, 'or I'll get my knife out and slash you wherever I can cut you. Let go! Bradley was drawing to the Lock-edge. Riderhood was drawing away from it. It was a strong grapple, and a fierce struggle, arm and leg. Bradley got him round, with his back to the Lock, and still worked him backward. 'Let go! said Riderhood. 'Stop! What are you trying at? You can't drown Me.
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