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"First time I ever heard of a man being run in for robbing himself on the high-road. Beats Gilbert!" "Mr. Sutgrove did not see the point of the joke at first," said the inspector. I saw that as he spoke he was taking note of Mannering in much the same way as he had taken stock of me at the police office. Mannering appeared to be quite unconscious of his regard, for he replied
"I suppose, Sutgrove, if I tell you that this story of the influence I am supposed to exercise over Miss Maitland is absolute news to me, you will not believe me?" I was staggered, and my astonishment must have been visible in my face, for he continued "You may be surprised, but not half so much as I have been, by what you have told me.
At the moment I made this discovery, I heard Forrest call to me in an excited whisper, and going across to him, I found him contemplating with keen interest a dirty piece of rope. "Look here, Sutgrove," he said; "this is the piece of cord with which he trussed me up on the occasion when he dropped me into the pond.
A few seconds later we met the man whom we had so lately suspected. I felt a tinge of shame at the thought that, a few minutes previously, I had been sneaking into his house in the hope that I should find evidence to convict him of a crime. By this time dawn was sufficiently advanced to allow of recognition, and as he came level with us Mannering pulled up. "Hullo, Sutgrove!" he shouted.
Well, I am quite prepared to answer any question which the police, or any one else for that matter, desires to put to me. James Sutgrove, of Sutgrove Hall, Norfolk, is not likely to change his address.
"Do tell us," said his daughter, as she rose from her seat, and put her arms coaxingly round her father's neck. "Do tell us like a real, good, kind, old-fashioned parent." The Colonel passed his hand lovingly over his daughter's sunny hair. "Sutgrove and Mannering don't want to hear about an old fellow's silly dreams," he said.
Never had such a scare in my life. I'd like to meet the Johnny. I'd welcome an opportunity of telling him what I thought of his conduct." "So should I," replied Winter, grimly; "and I fancy Sutgrove would not be averse to a meeting with him." "Why, what has he been doing?" asked Mannering.
The Colonel replaced the glass with a smile and refilled his own from the cradled bottle at his elbow. "I am merely a passenger, but you drive," he remarked. "I think, Sutgrove, under the circumstances, I will be responsible for the remainder of this bottle. It is endowed with certain qualities which particularly recommend themselves to me.
"Sutgrove, old fellow, would you mind punching me? I'm not quite sure whether it is the Colonel who is asleep or myself. I feel as if I have just awakened from dreaming of the story those newspapers printed." "It's not much of a dream," I remarked. "I little thought that we were to have the good fortune of so early an introduction to the Motor Pirate, however.
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