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"It is my own foolishness if I am disturbed. I really had nothing to do. Mr. Thew has been most considerate." "In any case," Jocelyn Thew went on, "I think that the matter had better be discussed another time, when we are alone. We might have to make reference to things which are best not mentioned in a public place." For a moment the young man's eyes challenged his. Then they fell.
JUSTICE DANIEL THEW WRIGHT I feel quite sure that DAMAGED GOODS will have considerable effect in educating the people of the nature of the danger that surrounds them. SENATOR KERN, OF INDIANA There can be no denial of the fact that it is time to look at the serious problems presented in the play with an open mind.
"In prison, aye, but they daren't keep him there!" was the fierce reply. "They had a taste then of the things that are ablaze through the country. The O'Clory and the others will be here to-night, under your own roof. Aye, and the guard will be out, and there'll be no Englishman dare come within a dozen miles!" Jocelyn Thew walked away to one of the great windows and looked out seaward.
"Let me tell you that I understand the wireless," he said impressively. "You will give the message exactly as I have told you or we finish things up on the spot. I think you had better. It's a matter of compulsion, you know in fact I'll explain matters to Mr. Jocelyn Thew, if you like." The young man's eyes were round with amazement. "Jocelyn Thew!" he repeated. "Precisely.
"Do you know, for the moment I had quite forgotten," he confided, as he sank into an easy-chair by their side. "Of course, you two are old acquaintances." Nora murmured something. Richard Beverley rose to his feet. "Well, I'd better be getting along," he said. "It's been fine to see you again, Nora," he added, taking her hand in his. "See you later, Thew."
"I am beginning to think," she continued, "that you must be a philanthropist." "Why?" "You hinted," she went on, "that your friend was in poor circumstances. You did not tell me, though, that you were paying the whole expenses of this trip, just so that the man should see his home and his family before he died." "I told you that the care of him was a charge upon me," Jocelyn Thew reminded her.
Used to bring me flowers now and then, but I felt certain from the first he was suspicious. He got me turned off just as things were getting interesting." "Right again," Jocelyn Thew told her. "His name is Crawshay. He is the man who was sent out from Scotland Yard to the English Embassy. He crossed with me on the steamer. We had our first little bout there." "Who won?"
"The fact has come to my knowledge," the captain said drily. "You had better ask the operator about it." "The operator is at the present moment under arrest," was the terse reply. If the news were a shock to Thew, he showed it in none of the ordinary ways. His face seemed to fall for a moment into harder lines. His mouth tightened and his eyes flashed. "Under arrest?" he repeated.
I'm off to Europe to-morrow on the City of Boston, and I should like to see you before I go." There was a moment's silence. "Why don't you come up here, then?" "I'd rather not," Jocelyn Thew observed laconically. "The fact of it is, I have a friend around who doesn't seem to care about losing sight of me. If you are going to be anywhere around near Jimmy's, about seven o'clock "
They follow you about only as a matter of form. We must keep up the old legends, you know. When," he added, dropping his eyeglass and polishing it slowly, "when we really come to the end of this most fascinating little episode, I do not fancy that you will have cause to complain of our methods." Jocelyn Thew smiled. "Your cryptic words have struck the right note," he confessed.
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