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"Oh, come now," said he, "I'll give you a tow to the nearest repair shop, and a word from me will expedite the business. Meanwhile, you must jump into a hansom and appeal to the sympathies of Miss Vanrenen, is it?" "No use, my lord," was the stubborn answer. "I am very much obliged to you, but I would not dream of detaining you." "Simmonds, you are positively cantankerous. I can spare the time."
Godfrey," I added, "doesn't the absence of servants seem strange to you?" "Very strange. But, I dare say, we'll find them around somewhere though they seem to be sound sleepers! We didn't look through the whole house, you know. I'm not going to, either; I'm going to let the police do that. They ought to be here pretty soon. I told Simmonds to bring two or three men with him."
The same thought was in my own mind; if Godfrey had run down Crochard and got the diamonds, without a life-and-death struggle, that engaging rascal must be much less formidable than I had supposed. "My dear Grady," said Godfrey, "I haven't seen Crochard since the minute you took him off the boat. I'd have had him, if you had let Simmonds call me. That's what I had planned.
"I couldn't get away to save me life, my lord," he grumbled. "It was a fair cop at Bristol, an' no mistake. His lordship swooped down on me an' Simmonds at the station, so wot could I do?" Medenham laughed. "I don't blame you, Dale. You could not have been more nonplussed than I at this moment.
It is a proof of how completely the opium dreams had passed out of the minds of both Simmonds and myself, that even when rumors of general disaffection among the Sepoys began to be current, they never once recurred to us; and even when the news of the actual mutiny reached us we were just as confident as were the others of the fidelity of our own regiment.
Simmonds hasn't really any practice to sell?" "No? That's bad. Hasn't he even a little one? As you may have noticed, my health is rather rocky. Got to lay up and all that so it's just as well that old Simpkins' practice is on the ragged edge." "The name is Simmonds, not Simpkins," coldly. "Well, I didn't buy the name with the practice. My own name is Callandar. Much nicer, don't you think?"
"What I should like to know," he said, after a moment, "is this: if this fellow took poison, what did he take it out of? Where's the paper, or bottle, or whatever it was?" "Maybe it's in his hand," suggested Simmonds, and lifted the right hand, which hung trailing over the side of the couch. Then, as he raised it into the light, a sharp cry burst from him.
I am obliged to go off to town on urgent business convocation work; and I must get a lawyer's opinion about the reredos question; there is not a moment to lose. Go and see the people in the pulmonary ward, there's a good fellow; and there are two or three bad accidents; and that old woman who is ill in Brown's cottage, you saw her the other day; and the Simmonds in Back Grove Street.
He accepted the offer with joy; his brother Charles was appointed the Governor's Secretary; and the two young men came up to London and spent a couple of days at Hutton's house. The plot was thickening. Young James was more in love with the Wesleys than ever. They, too, were on their way to Georgia. For the future history of religion in England that meeting on the Simmonds was momentous.
Grady, who has been the head of our detective bureau; this is Mr. Simmonds, a member of his staff; this is Mr. Lester, an attorney and friend of mine; and this is Mr. Shearrow, my personal counsel. Mr. Grady, Mr. Simmonds and Mr. Lester were present, last night," he added blandly, "when Crochard opened the secret drawer." Grady reddened visibly, and even I felt my face grow hot.
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