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Look here suppose Steggles goes and keeps his eye on the Cop for an hour or two, in case there's anything to be heard of? Don't show yourself, of course." Kentish agreed, and the trainer went. When Hewitt and Kentish arrived at the path behind the trees, Hewitt at once began examining the ground.
I can't say I'm quite confident yet of laying hold of him the time is so short, you see but I think I shall at least have news for you by the evening." Hewitt sat in the club-room until the afternoon, taking his lunch there. At length he saw, through the front window, Raggy Steggles walking down the road. In an instant Hewitt was down-stairs and at the door.
I've put a fifty on for him out of my own pocket, and told him so; and, if he won, that would bring him a lump more than he'd probably get by going crooked, besides the prize money and anything I might give him over. But it seems to me he's putting me in the cart altogether." "That we shall see. Meantime, don't mention anything I've told you to any one not even to Steggles.
I had the curiosity to look around the place as I approached, and there, in the garden behind the house, were Steggles and the young lady in earnest confabulation! "Every conjecture became a certainty. Steggles was the lover of whom Crockett was jealous, and he had employed the girl to bring Sammy out. I watched Steggles home, and gave you a hint to keep him there.
Then supposing Steggles had really been surprised at missing Crockett, wouldn't he have looked about, found the gate open, and told you it was open when he first came in? He said nothing of that we found the gate open for ourselves. So that from the beginning I had a certain opinion of Steggles." "What you say seems pretty plain now, although it didn't strike me at the time.
"Very good, then, so be it. Remember what I have told you about keeping your mouth shut; say nothing to Steggles or anybody. Is there a cab or brougham your son and I can have for the evening?" "There's an old hiring landau in the stables you can shut up into a cab, if that'll do." "Excellent. We'll run down to the town in it as soon as it's ready. But, first, a word about Crockett.
"Well, yes," young Crockett answered, blushing deeply under the carriage-lamp; "but I don't see how you come to know that." "Then she went on to ask you to get rid of Steggles on Thursday afternoon for a few minutes, and speak to her in the back lane.
I could see no footprints near the gate in the lane. You will remember that I sent Steggles off to watch at the Cop before I went out to the back merely, of course, to get him out of the way. I went out into the lane, leaving you behind, and walked its whole length, first toward the Old Kilns and then back toward the road.
Hewitt's instructions to the landlord were few, but emphatic. "Don't tell Steggles about it," he said; "make an excuse to get rid of him, and send him out of the house. Take Crockett into some other bedroom, not his own, and let your son look after him. Then come here, and I'll tell you all about it."
He can't help us, and he might blurt things out inadvertently. Don't say anything about these pieces of paper, which I shall keep myself. By-the-by, Steggles is indoors, isn't he? Very well, keep him in. Don't let him be seen hunting about this evening. I'll stay here to-night and we'll proceed with Crockett's business in the morning. And now we'll settle my business, please."
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