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"Yes, and if you'd ever seen him, you wouldn't blame Zara for being ready to run away before she went with him. He's the meanest old codger you ever saw. But he had a big pull in that region, because he held mortgages on about all the farms, and he could do about as he liked." "Well, I don't see why they didn't have a perfect right to run away," said Trenwith, "legally and morally.
Silas Weeks will be very glad to see you two, I have no doubt!" He spoke then to Bessie and Zara, who, terrified by his sodden appearance, were staring at him. "Mr. Trenwith!" said Eleanor, sharply. "You know who this man is, do you not? And what our feelings are concerning him? Are you going to let him stay here?" "He has no choice, Miss Mercer.
"I wish I knew about Trenwith," said Charlie, anxiously. "That is one part of this night's work that puzzles me. I don't understand it at all, and it worries me." "He went off with Mr. Holmes after we got inside the house," said Bessie. "But I didn't see him again after that. He wasn't with Mr. Holmes in the big hall again, after I had got away. I'm sure of that."
As they went along, Trenwith pointed out the various places of interest along the shore. "Down this way we get to a part where a lot of rich men have built summer homes," he said. "You see there's a good beach, and they can buy enough land to have it to themselves. It's pretty lonely, in a way, because they're a good long way from the railroad, but they don't seem to mind that." "I suppose not.
Then of course I had to come down here when I got this news from you and so I didn't have a chance. But I may get something out of him yet." "We've decided, Mr. Trenwith," Eleanor explained, "that the reason Jake is doing just what they want is that he's afraid of them that they know of some wrong thing he has done, and have been threatening to expose him if he doesn't obey them."
"I guess it's one on us," said one of the officers, with a reluctant laugh. "But, really, Jamieson, you can't blame us much, can you? It's pretty incredible, even now." "I'm bothered about Trenwith, though," said Charlie. "Something has gone wrong." "Miss Mercer is perfectly sure that he is in league with Mr. Holmes," said Bessie. "Do you think that's so, Mr. Jamieson?"
The breakdown had been a deception, pure and simple, intended to give Bates a chance to go ashore and warn Holmes that his prey was within his reach. "Oh, how I despise you!" said Eleanor to Trenwith. "Go away, please, so that I won't have to look at you!" "Eleanor, listen!" he said, in a low whisper, pleadingly. "I can explain "
"Well, if they're scaring him," said Charlie, "the thing for us to do is to scare him worse than they can. He'll stick to the side he's most afraid of." "Let's get him down here," said Trenwith. "Then we can not only handle him better, but we can keep an eye on him. I'm with you in this, Charlie, for anything I can do." "Good man!" said Charlie. "Then you're not afraid of Holmes?
"Probably they decided to send someone out with him to lend him a hand," said Trenwith. "People around these parts are pretty nice to you if you have a breakdown, and I guess it's partly because they never know when they're going to have one themselves." "Well, that ought to make it easier to make the repairs that are needed," said Eleanor, somewhat relieved.
It may be that he deliberately preferred that Iris should give in narrative the history of her decline; but I do not consider this a case in support of that slight plea for impassioned narrative which I ventured to put forth a few pages back. Her confession to Trenwith would have been far more dramatic and moving had it been about one-fourth part as long and one-fourth part as articulate.
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