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Crawshay meditated for a moment. "Look here, Miss Beverley," he said, "I have a friend who is chief in this country of a department which I will not name. Will you dine with me to-night and let me invite him to meet you?" She shook her head. "It is a very kind thought," she declared, "but I am engaged. Mr. Jocelyn Thew is dining here." Crawshay's face for a moment was very black indeed.
I wonder if there is anything between her and Jocelyn Thew," he added, looking through the door with a faintly disapproving note in his tone, a note which a woman would have recognised at once as jealousy. "If you ask me, I should say no," the other answered. "I've kept tabs on Jocelyn Thew for a bit, and I've had his dossier.
"Of course, the more money we get, the better the Red Cross can do with it but it seems to me that the present bid is adequate. If no arrangement is possible, however, I must continue the auction." "Two hundred and seventy-five guineas." "Three hundred," Jocelyn Thew replied coolly. "One moment, Mr. Bobby." He leaned forward and whispered in the comedian's ear.
"Perhaps," he said, "if I went on I might put just one card too many on the table, eh?" "We'll let it go at that, then," she decided. "After all, you know, I am not coming exactly like a lamb to the slaughter. There are a few things you'd like to get to know from me about Jocelyn Thew, but there are also a few things I should like to worm out of you. We'll see which wins. And, Mr. Crawshay."
"Perhaps, after all," Jocelyn Thew declared, "you are right to go. You have been very useful, and you have, without a doubt, earned your thousand pounds." "It was easy money," the other admitted, "but even now I am nervous. I shall be glad to be back once more in my own country." "You are certainly right to go," the other repeated.
In the struggle which is going on now, your heart and soul should be with us and against Jocelyn Thew." Her eyes were lit with a momentary terror. "You don't suppose for a moment," she said, "that my sympathies are not with my own country and our joint cause?" "I don't," he replied. "On the other hand, your actions should follow upon your sympathies.
"Guess you're older than I thought you, then." "I am thirty-seven years old," he declared, "and I was well brought up." "Jocelyn Thew," she said reflectively, "is forty." "I did not bring you here," he declared, "to discuss the age of my unworthy rival.
"I know no more than you do," he replied. "I expect Murchison had a pull, and he was terrified of Jocelyn Thew. I I went to Jake Hannaway's funeral," the young man went on, with a slight quiver in his tone. "I've seen his face, Nora, up in the clouds. I've seen it when I've been flying ten thousand feet up. Suddenly a little piece of black sky would open and I'd see him looking down at me!"
The swing door leading from the room into the cafe was pushed open, and a woman entered. She stood for a moment looking around until her eyes fell upon Jocelyn Thew. Crawshay suddenly gripped the detective's arm. "Is there anything for us in this, my friend?" he whispered. "Watch Jocelyn Thew's face!" For a few seconds Jocelyn Thew was certainly taken aback.
"You see, up to the present we haven't the least idea as to what has become of all those documents and plans which Mr. Jocelyn Thew so very cleverly brought over to this country." "Don't know where he's tucked them away, eh?" she enquired. "That's a fact," Crawshay confessed.
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