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Mershone had it on his tongue's end to ask what they expected to discover by shadowing him, but decided it was as well not to open an avenue for the discussion of Miss Merrick's disappearance. So, finding he could not bribe the youthful detective or use him in any way to his advantage, he closed the interview by rising. "I'm going to my room to write some letters," said he, with a yawn.
"Do you know what I think?" came from Dick. "I think he is going to sail around to the other side of the isle. Probably he has an idea of consulting with Sid Merrick. Then, if Merrick's offer suits him, he will do all he can to prevent us from getting the treasure." "You mean he and Bossermann will throw in their fortunes with Merrick?" asked Mr. Rover.
The train stopped, and the crowd shuffled up to the express car just as the door was thrown open, the spare man in the G. A. B. suit thrusting his head forward with curiosity. The express messenger appeared in the doorway, accompanied by a young man in a long ulster and traveling cap. "Are Mr. Merrick's friends here?" inquired the young man. The group on the platform swayed and shuffled uneasily.
I knew women well enough to say, none against herself; the threat I believed hung over Merrick's head, and would be fulfilled if she betrayed the secret or married him, which, with a weak, loving woman, was equivalent, as any man would know, to betrayal. I cannot attempt to make the breaks in this reasoning solid ground for my readers; it was solid ground for me.
Such acquired traits bade fair in the end to defeat Mrs. Merrick's carefully planned coup, for the daughter had a premature love affair with a youth outside the pale of eligibility. Louise ignored the fact that he had been disinherited by his father, and in her reckless infatuation would have sacrificed her mother without thought or remorse.
"I suppose you think Sid Merrick's doings are a joke, too," said Sam, before he had time to think twice. "Ha! what do you know of Merrick?" ejaculated Cuffer. "They must have been listening to our talk," he added, in a low tone to his companion. "Yes, and if so, we are in a bad box," answered Shelley. "I'd give a good deal to be out of here just now."
Merrick's voice inquiring: "What is it?" "If I had that woman's pluck I'd be a general before this thing is over," said Rodney, "I've always heard that a woman had more courage than a man and now I know it." "Listen," repeated Tom, who had by this time taken his hands down from his ears. There was no immediate response, for the party at the gate had looked for somebody else to answer their hail.
Philip Phelps, the banker, responded with dignity: "We have come to take charge of the body. Mr. Merrick's father is very feeble and can't be about." "Send the agent out here," growled the express messenger, "and tell the operator to lend a hand." The coffin was got out of its rough box and down on the snowy platform.
She had hoped by adopting John Merrick's nieces as her protégées and introducing them to society to find a novel and pleasurable excitement that would serve to take her out of her unfortunate ennui a condition to which she had practically been born.
"I know that, Aleck, but they won't come back right away. Evidently they are returning to their vessel to get that Spaniard, Doranez." "I'd like to have punched Merrick's head for tying me up," growled Tom. "It will be punishment enough for him if we get the treasure," answered Mr. Rover. "If we do." "You are not ready to give up yet, are you, Tom?" "Oh, no.
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