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I've long wanted you, and now my luck's turning. I was going to Catalina to tell you so. If Brown and I float Arcturus, will you marry me?" Barbara's color came and went, but she said quietly: "When you came to the hotel in the evening you met Shillito!" "I did," said Lister, with incautious passion. "If I had killed the brute I'd have been justified!
"You helped her off and Shillito found this out and got after you?" "He got after me when he saw he was corraled," Lister replied, and narrated his struggle on the platform. He was now willing to tell Vernon all he wanted to know, but saw the other's interest was not keen and they presently began to talk about something else. "What are you going to do in the Old Country?" Vernon asked.
When he stopped Cartwright said: "Then you did not know her name?" "I don't know it yet," said Lister, as coolly as he could, but got embarrassed when he saw Cartwright's smile. "You don't imagine Shillito rejoined her afterwards?" "No," said Lister firmly, "I think it's impossible. The gravel train was going East, and when the police boarded the cars we had run some distance West."
"I think I would sooner he had been caught! But why did you begin to talk about Shillito?" "Perhaps I oughtn't; I'm sorry." She studied him and he thought she pondered, although it was possible she wanted to recover her calm. "Unless you are very dull, you know something," she resumed with an effort. "Well, I was rash, but just before I saw you on the platform I found out all I'd risked.
"One sees it sometimes, although you're sometimes kind. Anyhow, I won't be bullied and controlled; I'm not a shareholder in the Cartwright line. I don't know if it's important, but why don't you like Mr. Shillito?" Cartwright's eyes twinkled. In a sense, he could justify his getting rid of Shillito, but he knew Barbara and doubted if she could be persuaded.
Perhaps her disturbance was ridiculous, but the man was very like Shillito, and their meeting at the busy port was not impossible. Las Palmas was something like an important railway junction. Numerous steamers called, and passengers from all quarters, particularly South America and the West Indies, changed boats.
So he insisted that David Williams be briefed for the defence, and well fee'ed, in order that he might be able to devote all his time to the investigation of the mystery. David had an uphill task. He went down to the North in November, 1908, conferred with Lady Shillito's solicitors, and at great length with the curiously calm, ironly-resolved Lady Shillito herself.
"My partner's coming along behind you; you're corraled all right. I've a warrant for you, Louis Shillito." The North-West Police work in couples and the situation was plain. One trooper had begun his search at the front of the train, the other at the back, and Shillito, hearing the first turn the passengers out of their berths, had tried to steal away and met the other.
'Tricks of the trade, says some other barrister's clerk, sneerin' because you wasn't 'is boss. An' then I'd punch 'is 'ead.... An' I don't reckon myself a soft-'earted feller as a rule.... Reklect that Shillito Case ?" "Don't, Bertie! Don't say such things in praise of me. I'm not worth such love.
Then he ran up the steps, and when he stopped in front of Shillito her heart beat fast. It was Lister, and she knew he had remarked her strained look, for his face was very stern. "Hallo!" he said. "Are you bothering Miss Hyslop again?" He glanced at Barbara. "I expect the fellow is bothering you?" For a moment Barbara hesitated, but she had borne a heavy strain and her control was going.
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