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"He and I," replied Spargo, with easy confidence, "are working this case together. You can tell me anything you'd tell him." The landlady rummaged in her pocket and produced an old purse, from an inner compartment of which she brought out a small object wrapped in tissue paper. "Well," she said, unwrapping the paper, "we found this in Number 20 this morning it was lying under the dressing-table.
"All right, Lily. We've heard it before. Anyhow, it's all done and over, and I brought gardenias and violets. You used to like 'em." "It was dear of you to remember." "Couldn't help remembering. No credit to me. I you were always in my mind." She was busily unwrapping the box. "Always," he repeated, unsteadily. "What gorgeous things!" she buried her face in them. "Did you hear what I said, Lily?"
Mary, who had watched with keen interest the unwrapping of the dozens of beautiful wedding gifts at The Locusts, took a peculiar pleasure in looking around for them now, and recognizing them among the handsome furnishings of the different rooms. Heretofore the Locusts had been her ideal of all that a home should be, but this far surpassed anything she had ever seen in luxurious fittings.
"I think I will lay the baby down beside this tree and let him have his bottle," said Mary. "That will keep him quiet all the time we eat." "Wait a minute until we fix a nice place," said Minnie. She brought a couple of auto robes and made a smooth, soft bed under the tree. "There he is!" she said. Mary, who had been unwrapping wads of newspapers, produced a bottle of milk which she gave the baby.
Not only had he rushed downstairs and up again half a dozen times, springing to the night city editor's curse, or pound, or shout, whichever had come handiest, but he had also been twice to the corner for frankfurters for reporters who hadn't had a crumb to eat for hours. He was unwrapping the second one when Katie burst in.
The only thing I'd kept about me in the apartment that wasn't filthy German stuff was what's in here." Slowly he was unwrapping something rolled in tissue paper, as Jane, eager-eyed, looked wonderingly on. "But," he went on, "I couldn't go away from you without leaving some token, some clue. If it happened that I never came back, I wanted you to know " He stopped abruptly.
The unwrapping of the tissue paper folds was a ceremony. We reveled in the very crackle of it. I had scuttled home from the office as early as decency would permit, in order to have plenty of time for the dressing. It must be quite finished before Herr Nirlanger should arrive.
An expression of keen sorrow swept over his face, but he conquered his emotion, took the parcel he had brought, and, unwrapping a book, said, in his usual quiet tone: "When I saw you last you were regretting your inability to procure Sir William Hamilton's 'Philosophy of the Conditioned, and I have taken the liberty of bringing you my own copy.
"It is in here!" said Bess, faintly. "I can hear it walking about. It's rattling some papers in a corner of my room." Jack and Cora went on through to the farther apartment, and Jack, turning on the light there, approached a pile of paper Bess had tossed in one corner after unwrapping some purchases made during the day.
Howland's hands gripped those that guarded the little parcel. "I would have killed him, Jean." He spoke slowly, deliberately. "I would have killed him," he repeated. "I am glad of that, M'seur." Jean was unwrapping the buckskin, fold after fold of it, until at last there was revealed a roll of paper, soiled and yellow along the edges.
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