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All parties concerned looked forward throughout the week to these joyful occasions; the girls wore their best frocks, and the young men came out bravely in the matter of neckties; there was laughter and gaiety and a general escape from the prosaic matters which obtained from Monday to Saturday consequently, Triffitt felt it a serious thing that attention to this Herapath business had come to interfere with his love-making and his Sunday feast of mirth and gladness.
She was dead enough when she was discovered, and the theory was that she had come along the path above in a drunken condition, had fallen over the low railings which fenced it in, and so had come to her death." "Precisely," assented Carver, nodding his head with wise appreciation. "Her alcoholic tendencies were certainly useful factors in the case." "Just so you take my meaning," agreed Triffitt.
Now," continued Carver, dropping his voice to a confidential whisper, "I'm only doing a plain report of this affair for our organ of light and leading, but I've read it up pretty well, and there are two things I want to know, and I'll tell you what, Triffitt, if you like to go in with me at finding them out two can always work better than one I'm game!"
But Triffitt did not propose to sit with his eye glued to that letter slit all day it might be useful at times, and for some special purpose, but he had wider views. And the first thing to do was to make an examination, geographical and exhaustive, of his own surroundings: Triffitt had learnt, during his journalistic training, that attention to details is one of the most important things in life.
But Barthorpe had no time to waste thoughts on Triffitt. He suddenly became alive to the fact that two exceedingly strong men had seized his arms; that two others had similarly seized Burchill. The pallor died out of his face and gave place to a dull glow of anger. "Now, then?" he growled. "What's all this!" "The same for both of you, Mr.
Triffitt looked at Markledew: Markledew nodded his big head. "Go with him," said Markledew. "Work with him! He knows what he's after." Davidge took Triffitt away to Mr. Halfpenny's office on the way thither he talked about London fogs, one of which had come down that morning. But he never mentioned the business in hand until having left Triffitt outside while he went in he emerged from Mr.
"Friend of mine Mr. Milsey. You'll excuse the liberty, I'm sure." "Glad to see both of you," answered Triffitt, cordially. He led the way into his sitting-room, drew chairs forward, and produced refreshments which he had carefully laid in during the afternoon in preparation. "Drop of whisky and soda, gentlemen?" he said, hospitably. "Let me help you. Will you try a cigar?"
Their cold eyes and polite, yet almost chillingly indifferent manner had convinced Triffitt that they were just listening to something with which they were absolutely familiar. Never a gleam of interest had betrayed itself in their stolid official faces until he had referred to the fact that he himself was living in a flat next door to Burchill's.
And within half a year of the demise of her first husband, she took Bentham for her second." "Quick work!" remarked Carver. "And productive of much wagging of tongues, you may bet!" said Triffitt. "Many things were said not all of them charitable. Well, this marriage didn't mend the lady's manners. She still continued, now and then, to take her drops in too generous measure.
"How did you know?" asked Triffitt. The taxi-cab driver held up a hand and tapped a brass ring on its third finger. "Where I wears that ring, gentlemen," he said triumphantly, "he wears a fine diamond a reg'lar swell 'un. That morning, when he got into my cab, he rested his hand a minute on the door, and the light from one o' the lamps across the street shone full on the stone.
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