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"We might have thought of that earlier," he said. "I've heard of people trying to burn up things it might be dangerous to leave about." Setting to work with a fork and shovel, they presently unearthed a rusty iron object which Stanton picked up. "Looks like a big meat can," he remarked. "Kind of curious that Wandle should double it over this way and flatten it down."
On reaching it, he soon found an iron cash-box in a cupboard and succeeded in forcing it with a screw-driver. It contained a few papers, among which were one or two relating to the purchase of the quarter-section, and Wandle put these in his pocket. The others he threw into the cupboard Jernyngham's carelessness was well known and then hastily studied a railroad time-table.
Most unwisely I maintained my point and" he indicated the broken crock and littered table "you see the consequences." "Wandle is a bit of a rogue," said Prescott, choosing the safest topic. "I've told you so." "You have. For all that, he's useful and I don't mind being robbed in moderation; I'm a man who's accustomed to losing things." His half-mocking tone grew serious.
How much ash would you figure Wandle takes out of his stove each time he lights it?" "About a bucketful, burning wood." "Not quite, but there's a bucket yonder. See how many times you can fill it with the stuff we shoveled off, while I take a smoke. Build up the pile to look as if we hadn't disturbed it."
"He is perplexed and distressed," said Gertrude coldly, deciding that the man must not be allowed to go too far. Wandle guessed her thoughts, but he was not to be daunted. "That's natural. He must be anxious to learn the truth, and the police haven't found out much yet looks as if they were getting tired." Gertrude hesitated, while he led the horses round a clump of birches.
He didn't ride away after it, though his horse went on. The point is that it was led." "How do you know that?" Wandle asked. "It's my business to know these things. Think we can't tell the difference between the tracks of a led horse and a ridden one? The only times two horses trot close together at an even distance is when one's rider has both bridles, or when they're yoked to a wagon pole.
Here and there huge agricultural machines hunched under waterproof covers. The mingled waters of the Wey and Mole and Wandle ran in rectangular channels; and wherever a gentle elevation of the ground permitted a fountain of deodorised sewage distributed its benefits athwart the land and made a rainbow of the sunlight.
"I heard at the hotel he'd asked you to look after his place, given you a share in the crop." "He did. I'd some words with Wandle about the matter this morning; Jernyngham warned me he might pretend he had a claim. However, that's not to the purpose; somehow I feel convinced he'll turn up again. What motive could any one have for killing him?
Instead she was hating herself for her own pusillanimity. "And the people?" "Some of them." And straightway she raised her fierce black eyes to his, and the man before her understood, as plainly as any one need understand, that, whoever else Miss Boyce might like, she did not like Lord Wandle, and wished for no more conversation with him. Her interrogator turned to Aldous with smiling aplomb.
A bit and bridle hung on a nail, he found a girth, but his hands were cold and he spent some time adjusting straps and fastening on the blanket before he led one of the horses out and mounted. The moonlight was clear enough to show him that there were no fresh wheelmarks in the snow. Wandle had kept to the trail, and Prescott surmised that he would travel south toward the American boundary.
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