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I As Seen By Two Strangers | Anna Katharine Green | |
IV Sweet Little Miss Clarke |
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"What kind of a looking person was the man who took you outside last night?" I inquired of George, with my eyes still on this furtive watcher. "A fellow to make you laugh. A perfect character, Laura; hideously homely but agreeable enough. I took quite a fancy to him. Why?" "I am looking at him now." "Very likely. He's deep in this affair. Just an everyday detective, but ambitious, I suppose, and quite alive to the importance of being thorough." "He is watching those people. No, he isn't. How quickly he disappeared!" "Yes, he's mercurial in all his movements. Laura, we must get out of this. There happens to be something else in the world for me to do than to sit around and follow up murder clews." But we began to doubt if others agreed with him, when on passing out we were stopped in the lobby by this same detective, who had something to say to George, and drew him quickly aside. "What does he want?" I asked, as soon as George had returned to my side. "He wants me to stand ready to obey any summons the police may send me." "Then they still suspect Brotherson?" They must." My head rose a trifle as I glanced up at George. "Then we are not altogether out of it?" I emphasised, complacently. He smiled which hardly seemed a propos. Why does George sometimes smile when I am in my most serious moods. |
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