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II As Seen By Detective Sweetwater | Anna Katharine Green | |
XXII O. B. Again |
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"What's happened? Something very important. I ought to hope so after this confounded failure." "Failure? Didn't he read the letters?" "Yes, he read them. Had to, but -" "Didn't weaken? Eh?" "No, he didn't weaken. You can't get water out of a millstone. You may squeeze and squeeze; but it's your fingers which suffer, not it. He thinks we manufactured. those letters ourselves on purpose draw him." "Humph! I knew we had a reputation for finesse, but I didn't know that it ran that high." "He denies everything. Said she would never have written such letters to him; even goes so far to declare that if she did write them - (he must be strangely ignorant of her handwriting) they were meant for some other man than himself. All rot, but -" A hitch of the shoulder conveyed Sweetwater's disgust. His uniform good nature was strangely disturbed. But Mr. Gryce's was not. The faint smile with which he smoothed with an easy, circling movement, the already polished top of his ever present cane conveyed a secret complacency which called up a flash of discomfiture to his greatly irritated companion. "He says that, does he? You found him on the whole tolerably straightforward, eh? A hard nut; but hard nuts are usually sound ones. Come, now! prejudice aside, what's your honest opinion of the man you've had under your eye and ear for three solid weeks? Hasn't there been the best of reasons for your failure? Speak up, my boy. Squarely, now." |
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