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He was met by Doris Lorrimer you have probably noticed her, that dark, demure, quietly dressed girl who was at Connie Stapleton's dinner party at 'The Rook, and at Gastrell's last night." "You don't mean to say that she, too, is one of Gastrell's accomplices!" Jack exclaimed. "It seems impossible looking like that!" "I have suspected it for some time. Now I am sure.
"By the time that you discovered me upon the moor I had a complete knowledge of the whole business, but I had not a case which could go to a jury. Even Stapleton's attempt upon Sir Henry that night which ended in the death of the unfortunate convict did not help us much in proving murder against our man.
"I have already told you that your reports reached me rapidly, being forwarded instantly from Baker Street to Coombe Tracey. They were of great service to me, and especially that one incidentally truthful piece of biography of Stapleton's. I was able to establish the identity of the man and the woman and knew at last exactly how I stood.
Stapleton's, so to speak, "giving herself away." Indeed, in face of the discovery, I now decided not to make certain statements to Sir Roland that I had fully intended to make. After all, he was old enough to be my father, and if a man old enough to be my father could be so foolish as to fall in love with an adventuress, let him take the consequences.
I know one always bars a book that's recommended to one, but you've got no choice. You're not going to get anything else till you've finished those two. 'All right, said Tony. 'But Stapleton's out of bounds. I suppose Merevale'll give you leave to go in. 'He won't, said Charteris. 'I shan't ask him. On principle. So long. On the following afternoon Charteris went into Stapleton.
Stapleton's it seemed quite on the cards that men and women of equally bad character might also be included among her friends. I had several reasons for suspecting Mrs. Gastrell of duplicity, and I determined to remain on my guard. The dinner, I confess, was excellent. I was glad to see that Dulcie sat between Jack Osborne and Lord Easterton, and was thus out of harm's way.
I won't tell you until later how I come to know the kidnapping was Mrs. Stapleton's idea; I have a reason for not telling you yet." "You certainly are a marvel, George," Jack said, as he blew a cloud towards the ceiling. "We seem to be well on the way now to running these scoundrels to ground. I shall be glad to see them convicted right glad."
"Where are you for now? and bad luck to ye, ye boiled lobster!" roared a stout Irish wench, emerging from a neighbouring gin-palace on seeing the dainty viands rolling in the street. "Cut away!" cried Jorrocks to his friend, running his horse between one of George Stapleton's dust-carts and a hackney-coach, "or the Philistines will be upon us."
At once the wrangling ceased. There was a look in Connie Stapleton's eyes that I had never seen there before. Hitherto I had seen only her attractive side. When I had conversed with her she had always seemed most charming intelligent, witty, amusing. Now her eyes had in them a cold, steely glitter. "What do you want, Michael Berrington?" she asked icily.
You must do all that you can to find this young man, and I shall hire Stapleton's boat by the day until we succeed; you need not tell him so, or he may be anxious to know why. To-morrow you go down to old Beazeley's?" "Yes, sir; you cannot hire me to-morrow." "Still I shall, as I want to see you to-morrow morning before you go. Here's Stapleton's money for yesterday and to-day and now good-night."
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