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Piggott says he's got a sensation up his sleeve for us it's got something to do with that cabinet." "With the cabinet?" "Yes that shiny thing Godfrey got me to lock up in a cell." "Simmonds," I said, seriously, "does Godfrey know about this?" "No," said Simmonds, looking a little uncomfortable.
He stopped, for a man was hastening toward us, carrying under one arm a small white bundle. Simmonds quickened his pace. "What's that you've got?" he asked. The man saluted. "I found it just now, sir, in the bushes near the gate. Looks like a dress." Simmonds unrolled it slowly. It was the robe of the White Priest of Siva. Godfrey looked at it and then at Simmonds, whose face was a study.
Simmonds had two men in the grounds watching the house all last night, ready to interfere at the least sign of anything wrong. That watch will be kept up as long as Miss Vaughan remains there." "That's good," he said. "I didn't know that. But just the same, she mustn't remain there. Even with the men on guard, you may be too late." "Just what is it you're afraid of?" I asked him, curiously.
"And now, Simmonds," said Godfrey, "come along and I'll show you what started me to watching that house, and caused me to get Lester out here." Simmonds followed him up the ladder without a word, and I came along behind. We were soon on the limb. "Of course," Godfrey added, when we were in place, "it is just possible that nothing will happen. But I think the show will come off as usual.
Simmonds joined us with a twisted smile on his lips, and I saw that even he was considerably shaken. "I got Grady," he said, "and told him what had happened. He says he's too busy to come up, and that I'm to take charge of things." Godfrey laughed a little mocking laugh. "Grady foresees his Waterloo!" he said. "Well, it's not far distant.
"Well, whoever it was," he said, and I could see that he thought my ears had deceived me, "he has made good his escape. There'll be a doctor and a nurse here in a few minutes, and I got Simmonds and told him to bring Goldberger along. He can't get here for an hour anyway.
The spark fired the shell, and the drum began to revolve and pull it down. That explains, Lester, why it descended so steadily and in a straight line. The fellow who could devise a thing like that deserves to succeed! Here's health to him!" "He ought to be behind the bars," growled Simmonds. "The cleverer he is, the more dangerous he is."
"One would imagine you were getting ready to repel an army. Who is this fellow, anyway, Godfrey? You seem to be half afraid of him!" "I'm wholly afraid of him, if he's who I think he is but it's a mere guess as yet, Lester. Wait a day or two. I'll call up Simmonds." He went to the 'phone, while I sat down again and looked at the cabinet in a kind of stupefaction.
He was tired physically, worried mentally; he had been brought from Paris at an awkward moment; he was naturally devoted to his daughter; he believed that Medenham was an unmitigated scamp and Simmonds his tool; and his failure to solve Medenham's arithmetical problem still rankled. These considerations, among others, may be pleaded in his behalf.
I have only six months longer, for Easter is the time when Mr. Simmonds said that I should be old enough, and he will write to the lord lieutenant, and I suppose that in three months after that I should get my commission." "That is right, Ned. I am exceedingly glad you have been able to take my view of the matter.
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