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Don't you attempt to leave this house, or to remove anything from it, till you see me again, and that'll be some time to-morrow evening. If you do attempt it, you'll be apprehended at once, for you're being watched. I tell you that for your own sake, Tweddle; for I've no wish to get you into trouble if you act fairly by me. But mind you stay where you are for the next twenty-four hours."
He had had so much to think of lately, that the legal danger he was running, by harbouring the detested statue, was almost forgotten; but now he remembered the Inspector's words, and his legs bent beneath him. Could these people be detectives? "Is that Mr. Tweddle up there?" said a voice below "because if it is, he'd better come down, double quick, and let us in, that's all!"
"It isn't friendly of you, I must say, Miss Parkinson, to set there enjoying of it it's bad taste!" "Well, then, I'm very sorry, Mr. Tweddle; I won't laugh any more; but, for goodness' sake, take me back to the Hall now." "It's coming!" he said; "I'm working it over the joint now it's coming quite easily." "But I can't wait here while it comes," she said. "Do you want me to go back alone?
"I don't know what others are going to do," Bella announced; "but I shall stay here, James, and keep warm if I can!" and once more she uttered her regret that they had not gone to the Adelphi. Her sister declined to follow her example. "I mean to see all there is to be seen," she declared, "since we are here; and perhaps Mr. Tweddle will come and take care of me. Will you, Mr. Tweddle?"
But, to go on with what I was saying. My tactics, Tweddle, have been crowned with success the famous Venus is now safe in my hands! What do you say to that?" "Say? Why, what clever gentlemen you detective officers are, to be sure!" cried Leander.
Keep everything you want on the premises, eh? Find those cupboards very convenient, I dare say?" He tried to keep his eyes from resting too consciously upon the fatal door that held his secret. "Keep your coal and your wine and spirits there?" said the detective. "Y yes," said Leander; "leastways, in one of them. Will you take anything, sir?" "Thank 'ee, Tweddle; I don't mind if I do.
He argued thus: If Tweddle was free from all complicity, nothing was lost by delaying the search for a day; if he were guilty, he would be more than mortal if he did not attempt, after such a warning, either to hide his booty more securely, and probably leave traces which would betray him, or else to escape when his guilt would be manifest.
"Good night," said Ada; and added in a whisper, "Don't go and dream of your statue-woman!" "If I dream to-night at all," he said, between his teeth, "it will be a nightmare!" "I suppose, Tweddle, old chap," said Jauncy, as he shook hands, "you know your own affairs best; but, if you meant what you told me coming down, you've been going it, haven't you?"
Tweddle, the things you said to that poor trusting girl all the time you were walking and dancing and talking foolishness to her." "I never said a word that couldn't have been spoke from the top of St. Paul's," protested Leander. "I did dance with her, I own, not to seem uncivil; but we only waltzed round twice." "Then why did you give her a ring an engagement ring too?" insisted Bella.
Miss Parkinson showed no symptoms of remorse. "What!" she cried, "the young lady that Mr. Tweddle is courting? Fancy!" "After what happened last night," said Matilda, trembling exceedingly, "you know that that is all over. I didn't come to talk about that. If you knew and I think you must have known all that Mr.
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