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Talbot had risen with a full and hearty greeting which proved to Sweetwater's uneasy mind that notwithstanding Knapp's disquieting reticence no direct suspicion had as yet fallen on the unhappy Frederick. Then he waited for what Mr. Sutherland had to say, for it was evident he had come there to say something.
A mystery to Sweetwater's eyes, and like all mysteries, interesting. For what purpose had it been built and why this isolation? It was too flimsy for a reservoir and too expensive for the wild freak of a crank. A nearer view increased his curiosity. In the projection of the roof over the curving sides he found fresh food for inquiry.
Though the man came in and sat with him for an hour, and they drank together out of the flask Sweetwater had brought with him, he was as impervious to all Sweetwater's wiles and as blind to every bait he threw out, as any man the young detective had ever had to do with.
Brotherson's manner expressed perfect ease, Sweetwater's not. He knew himself changed in looks, in bearing, in feeling, even; but was he changed enough to deceive this man on the very spot where they had confronted each other a few days before in a keen moral struggle?
If we possessed Sweetwater's interest, and were to follow in secret fashion every action of the director on the evening preceding this date, what conclusion should we draw in this regard? How would we characterize his anticipations, or measure in our own mind the possibilities of the future as felt by him? He was very quiet. He ate his meal with seeming appetite.
The alley you see, belongs to our neighbours. No one passes through there but myself and " He caught himself in time, with a sullen grunt which may have been the result of fatigue or of that latent instinct of loyalty which is often the most difficult obstacle a detective has to encounter. "And Mr. Ranelagh, I suppose you would say?" was Sweetwater's easy finish.
I caught one more glimpse of her face, with Arthur's bent tenderly over it; then the sleigh slipped away. An officer shook Zadok by the arm and he got up and began to move aside. Then I had mind to face my own fate, and, looking up, I met Sweetwater's eye. It was quietly apologetic.
"And yet men say that love is a fleeting passion. Well, after coming upon this proof of devotion, I find it impossible to believe James Zabel accountable for the death of one so fondly remembered. Sweetwater's instinct was truer than Knapp's." "Or ours," muttered Fenton.
Father Dobbins for that is the name by which this old codger was known to the boys was, as might be expected, very proud of his new acquisition and quite blind to the contrast it offered to his fringed-out trouser-legs. He had a smile on his face which broadened as he caught Sweetwater's sympathetic glance. "Fine day," he mumbled. "Are ye wantin' somethin' of me that ye're comin' this way?"
Brotherson to send his little friend to her hotel if ever we came to New York." "That was some time ago?" "We were there in June." "And you have corresponded ever since with Miss Challoner?" "She has been good enough to write, and I have ventured at times to answer her." The suspicion which might have come to some men found no harbour in Sweetwater's mind.
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