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I said, and every man in the room looked sheepish, except Cummings who didn't need to, and Dykeman who was too mad to. He shouted at me, "Yes, we took it; and you're going to tell us where he got that suitcase." "What have your own detectives those you hired on the side to say about it?"
The broken sentences she'd sobbed out to me began to fit up like a puzzle-game. By all theories of good detective work, I should have seen from the first the similarity of these crimes. But Clayte, slipping in here to do this murder and why? What mixed him up with affairs here? And then the icy pang Dykeman had seen a connection Cummings had found one.
"If you'd asked my opinion and giving you opinions is what you pay me a salary for I'd have said close with him while you can." Whipple gave me an agonized glance. I nodded affirmatively. He put the question to vote in a breath; the ayes had it, old Dykeman shouting after them in an angry squeak. "No!
I shall trust you with an adventure, Dykeman an adventure that will remind you of our young days, man. This charming creature I tell you she is irresistible her very oddities bewitch me. You must well, you look uneasy. What would you say?" "My lord, I have found out more about her and and " "Well, well." The valet drew near and whispered something in his master's ear.
The defensive is my line. I shall play no more. I attack no one. Who will accuse Lord Lilburne? Still, Robert is a fool. I must not leave him to himself. Ho! there! Dykeman! the carriage! I shall go to London." Fortunate, no doubt, it was for Philip that Mr. Beaufort was not Lord Lilburne.
Hero worship all that sort of thing. An outlaw is an outlaw. This isn't a personal matter. Mr. Cummings and I are merely doing our duty as good citizens." At that, I think it possible that Dykeman would have listened to reason; it was Cummings who broke in uncontrollably, "Barbara Wallace, I was your father's friend. I'm yours if you'll let me be.
How completely and entirely, indeed, the state of Lord Lilburne's feelings depended on the state of his health, may be seen in the answer he gave to his valet, when, the morning after the first attack of the gout, that worthy person, by way of cheering his master, proposed to ascertain something as to the movements of one with whom Lord Lilburne professed to be so violently in love, "Confound you, Dykeman!" exclaimed the invalid, "why do you trouble me about women when I'm in this condition?
Dykeman," Cummings' voice had a wire edge on it, "the Hanford block of stock in this bank has, as I think you very well know, passed fully into Gilbert hands to-day." "Thomas A. Gilbert," Dykeman was sparing of words. "Captain Worth Gilbert's father," Whipple attempted pacification. "Mr. Gilbert senior was with me till nearly noon, closing up the transfer.
"Maybe not," I said, reckoning on something human in Dykeman to appeal to. "You see I know where Worth got that suitcase. It came out of my office vault evidence we'd gathered in the Clayte hunt. Getting it and using it that way was his idea of humor, I suppose." "Sounds fishy." Dykeman made an uncomfortable shift in his chair.
As soon as Dykeman, more astounded, perhaps, by his lord's coolness than even by the preceding circumstances, had left the study, Lilburne came up to Beaufort, who seemed absolutely stricken as if by palsy, and touching him impatiently and rudely, said, "'Sdeath, man! rouse yourself! There is not a moment to be lost! I have already decided on what you are to do.
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