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I myself had foreseen the possibility but only as a possibility that Dykeman would put a man on Worth's coat-tails, since I knew Dykeman and had been at that bank meeting; yet I had not regarded it as likely enough to warn Worth; and here was this girl phoning him to look out for a trailer. Was this some more of her deductive reasoning, or had Cummings dropped a hint?
Fanny heard the caution, and screamed for rescue. "Is it so?" muttered the molester. And suddenly Fanny felt her voice checked her head mantled her light form lifted from the ground. She clung she struggled it was in vain. It was the affair of a moment: she felt herself borne into the carriage the door closed the stranger was by her side, and his voice said: "Drive on, Dykeman. Fast! fast!"
Here Lilburne's countenance assumed a sudden aspect of dark and angry passion, he broke off abruptly, rose, and paced the room, muttering to himself. Suddenly he stopped, and put his hand to his hip, as an expression of pain again altered the character of his face. "The limb pains me still! Dykeman I was scarce twenty-one when I became a cripple for life."
I countered on him, and saw instantly that the Whipple end of the crowd hadn't known of Dykeman's spotters and trailers. "Well, why not?" Dykeman shrilled. "Why not? Who wouldn't shadow that crook? One hundred and eighty seven thousand dollars! Worked us like suckers come-ons !" he choked up and began to cough. Cummings came in where he left off. "See here, Boyne; we don't want to antagonize you.
If I'd done what Captain Gilbert's done I wouldn't expect mercy." "You mean, if you'd done what you say he's done," I countered. "Nothing proved yet." "Nothing proved?" Dykeman huddled in his chair and shivered. Cummings shook out an overcoat and helped him into it.
Lord Lilburne interrupted the speaker by, "Give me some wine and hold your tongue!" Then, when he had emptied his glass, he drew himself nearer to the fire, warmed his hands, mused a moment, and turned round to his confidant: "Dykeman," said he, "though you're an ass and a coward, and you don't deserve that I should be so condescending, I will relieve your fears at once.
"Don't know, Jerry, and don't care," looking down at me serenely. "Why should I?" He swung one long leg free and stopped idly, half in the car, half out. "What if I told you Cummings' engagement was with our friend Dykeman only Dykeman doesn't know it yet?" Slowly he brought that dangling foot down to the pavement, followed it with the other, and faced me.
In another instant Fanny and her guardian had quitted the house. "Dykeman," said Lord Lilburne after a long silence, "I shall ask you another time how you came to admit that impertinent person. At present, go and order breakfast for Mr. Beaufort."
"Then " the speech died on his lips, for at that instant a rapid stride was heard without a momentary scuffle voices in altercation; the door gave way as if a battering ram had forced it; not so much thrown forward as actually hurled into the room, the body of Dykeman fell heavily, like a dead man's, at the very feet of Lord Lilburne and Philip Vaudemont stood in the doorway!
Cummings took it, with an ugly little half smile; Dykeman rumpled his hair, and bolstered his anger by shouting at me, "This country'll go to the dogs if we make an exempt class of our returned soldiers. Break the laws they'll have to take the consequences, just as a man that was too old or too sickly to fight would have to take 'em.
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