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Eight months have elapsed." "All right. Have it your own way." The stranger ceased to wander and sat himself down at Maisie's end of the couch. Pulling out his cigarette-case, he offered it to Tabs. "Have a gasper? You don't need to refuse because of Maisie. If she's the Maisie she used to be, she won't object. Well, if you won't, I will." Tabs noticed that his hand trembled in holding the match.
I know," here M'Ginnis seemed to choke again, "I know of you an' him kissin' an' cuddlin' oh, I've kept tabs on ye " "Yes," she said gently, "I saw your spy at work." "But y' can't deny it. Y' don't deny it! Say, what kind o' girl are you?" "The kind that doesn't fear men like you." "But y' can't deny meetin' him," he repeated, his hoarse voice quivering; "you don't deny kissin' him in a wood!
"As a matter of fact," he said, "the lady you're in search of does live here. But she's not Mrs. Gervis any longer. She's married again. She's Mrs. Lockwood now." A glint of enmity came into the stranger's eyes. "Then you're Mr. Lockwood, perhaps?" Tabs answered him with a note of irritation. "I'm not Mr. Lockwood. She's a widow. Lockwood also was killed.
It was my old friend, Red Tabs, whom I met on one of our many visits to mysterious but obviously important officials, that finally cleared up for me the many obscure points in this adventure of mine. When he saw me he burst out laughing. "'Pon my soul," he grinned, "you seem to be able to act on a hint, don't you?" Then he told me the story of the Kaiser's letter.
"I was honest in what I promised. I do want to live as though Reggie weren't dead. How did you put it? As though he were round the corner. As though he were truly coming back." In the silence that followed she stifled a sob, realizing that it wasn't Tabs who was the obstacle. Turning hysterically to Terry, she laid hold of both her hands. "I can't do it can't, can't by myself.
Under the stress of her nervousness she forgot the correct demeanor for a high-class parlor-maid and became a country girl, twisting the corner of her white, starched apron in her hands. "I was noticing the address on that letter your Lordship gave me to post." Tabs thought quickly, "Hullo, we're in for it. That was foolish of me. She's put two and two together."
He tore the envelope and commenced to read. Before he had read far, he turned with a worried expression to Lady Dawn. "This concerns you as well." She came and stood beside his elbow. They glanced through the pages together. It was written on commercial note-paper of The New Inn, Gloucester, and ran: DEAREST TABS: I love you very much just as much as ever. I always want you to feel sure of that.
He was out to smash politics and the disastrous iniquity of political compromise. His aim was to restore the comradeship and sharing which had enabled the old front-line to stand fast. He was establishing a paper. He was speechifying. He was to hold an immense mass meeting in the Albert Hall Tabs laughed in sheer excitement. Here was one man at any rate who wasn't content to miss his kingdom.
"I think even you will grant that there are some things in a man's heart which are privately sacred. Ann lies entirely outside the bounds of all justifiable interference on your part." It took an effort for Tabs to bring himself to break down the barrier of reticence which this depth of feeling had imposed. "I'm sorry, General, but I can't agree with you." He waited for the expected protest.
"When he came out of retirement," explained Inspector Val, "following the loss of his money in Northern Consolidated, I kept close tabs on him. These half-civilized people are only half sane, and some crazy crime would have come natural to this Russian at that time. So, as I tell you, I stayed close to his heels. I could see by his face that he had some big purpose.
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