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Didn't you hear the old man say that the orders for him to report himself came from Washington LAST NIGHT? No!" the speaker lowered his voice "Strangeways says that he had regularly sold himself out to one of them d d secesh woman spies! It's the old Marc Antony business over again!"
"They are ordinary, and leave many questions, which we wanted to ask, unanswered." "Yes, they do little more than confirm Strangeways' own statements, and yet. . . ." "Well?" "They tell us that her true initials were J. M., the same as those of her assumed name, and the same as those of the monogram on the locket; and they tell us of her great loneliness."
For such news, even though it should be bad news, he would pledge his honour to help Strangeways in his search for Spurling. He would even volunteer to go single-handed and capture him himself bring him down to Murder Point by guile, where Strangeways would be waiting to take him.
He'd have done it three times, or more than that, perhaps, but I casually mentioned in the smoking-room one night that some curious fool of a gardener boy had thrown some stones and frightened Strangeways, and that Pearson and I were watching for him, and that if I caught him I was going to knock his block off bing! He didn't do it again. Darned fool! What does he think he's after?"
"Papa must not be disappointed," she whispered to herself, and dashed her hand over her eyes; and at the moment the lock turned, and a gray head appeared, with a mighty odour of smoke. "Ah! I thought my little Lena would not pass me by! Have you had a pleasant party, my dear? Was young Strangeways there?"
All the others are not fit to be heard in the same day. Really, you know, you ought to think of coming out. Many other persons were only less complimentary, and one, Mrs Strangeways, was even more so; she exhausted herself in terms of glowing eulogy. At the end of the concert this lady drew Alma apart. 'Dear Mrs. Rolfe, I wonder whether I could ask you to do me a kindness?
Mrs. Strangeways merely smiled. After a brief pause, Sibyl looked at her watch, and rose. 'I have an engagement. And pray don't trouble to come again unless you have really something to come for. I can't pretend to have any taste for this kind of conversation.
His parents circumstances not being sufficient to bestow a liberal education upon him, colonel Strangeways, who was himself a man of taste and literature, took notice of the early capacity of Creech, and being willing to indulge his violent propensity to learning, placed him at Wadham College in Oxford, in the 16th year of his age, anno 1675, being then put under the tuition of two of the fellows.
It would have been easy to shoot Strangeways at that time, and he must have known it; yet, he was so much a gentleman that he accepted the risk, and had the decency to turn his back when circumstances compelled him to give a man the lie. Granger wondered whether courtesy was the motive; or whether he was only testing him out of curiosity, to see of what fresh vulgarity of deceit he was capable.
'Do you imagine, exclaimed Alma, on a high, quivering note, 'that I am in your power? 'Hush! It is very dangerous to talk like that in a hotel. Think over what I have said. You will find me here. Think, and remember. You will be quite satisfied with the results, but your help is indispensable. Therewith Mrs. Strangeways turned to the open window.
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