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One leetle, tiny mistake of a second, and" he made an expressive gesture "all is lost." The silence of dismay was broken by Handyside. "But bless my soul, Monsieur Guidet, if you stop him at the wrong time, you can easily set him going again." "Not so! He stop once, he stop for ever."
"A hundred and thirty that is the balance due on the clock itself?" inquired Christopher, filling in the date. The other looked puzzled. "On everything, Mr. Craik." "Don't you charge for your time?" Guidet smiled and spread his hands. "Ah, you are not so unwell when you can make the jokes! Two hundred pounds was the price, and I have received seventy of it and the grandest, best holiday "
Obvious was the effort with which Monsieur Guidet restrained his feelings while he enquired whether the clock had been annoying anybody. "By no means," Alan answered, wondering how much the man knew. "But my friends and I have come to the conclusion that certain annoyances will not stop until the clock does. I hesitate to ask you questions, Monsieur Guidet " "I beg that you will not do so, Mr.
"Look out!" shouted Teddy, and sprang forward too late. "Till the clock stops," said Bullard in a thick voice, and fired at it. Then he flung the pistol behind him and grinned. Teddy secured Guidet just in time, and a silence fell that seemed to last for minutes.
Caw," said Guidet quickly, "because I remember that, I say what I say; I refuse what I refuse." "Come, Monsieur," said Alan, "it is an open secret that that clock is more than a time-keeper." "Myself would almost suspect so much." He said it so quaintly that a smile went round. Caw alone preserved a stolid expression.
"I may as well tell you," he said, "that unless my servant Caw is another of your victims, like Flitch, we shall neither attempt to injure you nor give you in charge; the reason for that is our affair." At this Teddy found it necessary to restrain Monsieur Guidet. "But, on the other hand," Alan continued, "you are not going to walk out of this house as easily as you seem to have entered.
Still, they had met almost daily in the room assigned to Guidet for his work, and the patron had taken an interest in the man as well as his genius. "I cannot tell how soon, my friend," he said, "but we need not talk of it. Now tell me, Guidet, how much do I owe you?" Guidet wiped his eyes. "One hundred and thirty pounds," he murmured, "and I give you a thousand thanks, Mr. Craik."
One wonders if Caw had ever forgot for an hour in all those twenty years that Christopher Craig had lifted him from the gutter and given him the chance which the world seemed to have denied him. Shortly afterwards he entered the room with Monsieur Guidet. The two moved slowly, cautiously, for between them they carried a heavy and seemingly fragile object.
Craik," said Guidet, controlling himself and sympathetically considering Caw's red eyes and husky voice. "Good! but you look upon the wine when he was wheesky, and there is not so much jolly good fellow in the morning eh, Mr. Caw?" "Oh, yes, we've been doing a lot of rejoicing I don't think," returned Caw with weary good humour.
She looked at him bravely, but did not speak. He lowered his voice. "Your father's debt to the Syndicate is paid, but " "Oh, you worm!" cried Marjorie. "Where's my revolver?" But Alan took him by the collar and slung him halfway across the room, crying savagely: "How dare you speak to a lady?" "Bravo, Mr. Craik!" Guidet chuckled. "Another good bean!" "Leave him to me," said Teddy.
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