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Then, peeping through the loophole as I cocked the lock, I saw that a party of four of his comrades had picked up the stricken man, and were just about to carry him away, while the others were in full retreat for a clump of bushes not very far away, probably for the purpose of securing cover while they reloaded their weapons.
The thing would look like a conspiracy between the heir presumptive and the speculator who lent the money; and in this, for a bold man, there might have been a loophole for escape, but Gladwyne knew that he had not the nerve to use the fact against his ally.
"Well," Captain Jerry wriggled and twisted, but saw no loophole. "Well, give me a month to git up my courage in and " "A month! A month's ridic'lous; ain't it, Eri" "Yes." "Well, three weeks, then." This offer, too, was rejected. Then Captain Jerry held out for a fortnight for ten days.
Mrs. Minchin," cried Steel, with sudden feeling, "the conditions shall be very rigid; my lawyer shall see to that; nor shall I allow myself a loophole for any weakness or nonsense whatsoever in the future. Old fellows like myself have made fools of themselves before to-day, but you shall be safeguarded from the beginning. Let there be no talk or thought of love between us from first to last!
In almost no time I had got over town, locked the barn, shut Kaiser in the hotel, run through my tunnel to the bank so as to be on the west side of town, and stood peeping out a loophole with two fully loaded Winchesters on a table beside me.
Through the loophole he could see a half-dozen men lift a log to advance on the door as Nic passed a couple of officers, coughing hard, and making spasmodic motions with his hand, as though exhausted and unable to speak. He fired again, and a soldier fell. The lust of fighting was on him now.
Now, as I reflected upon my interview at the Villa Clementini, I realized how artful he was in denying everything, and yet allowing me a loophole for escape. He had mentioned blackmail an ugly word with ugly consequences well-knowing that I dare not go to the Metropolitan Police and make any statement of what I had witnessed or of how I had acted.
Hubert muttered between his closed teeth. Then he seemed to make a violent effort to control himself to assume command over his kinsman's disordered mind. "Come, sir," he said "you must not talk like that. Think no more of that wretched man. You know there was a chance a loophole. Some people were not convinced that he was guilty.
As for her, she said nothing in the world, but only waved her hand and smiled to me, and was suddenly carried away again from before the loophole. The vision was no sooner lost than I ran to the house door, where I found I was locked in; thence back to Miss Ramsay, crying for the key, but might as well have cried upon the castle rock. She had passed her word, she said, and I must be a good lad.
In his ceaseless search for some possible loophole of escape, his eye could not have overlooked the chance that lay in Charley, and he was far too canny to blast his forlorn hope.
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