Show THREE MEN irOD BY EHOUSE P G AND A MAID Care sisin by goings george H ikram C CHAPTER X that at I 1 la the on gist of him air s did you yen tell ali him I 1 was trying to as gel to no sleep r lea a sir air I 1 understood him to reply the that t he a should worry and get a pain in the neck A k go down again and say my that I 1 insist on b tila tapping stopping the thing it a an out rage se very good air it in a few minutes minute webster like uie the dob do dispatched flom the ark was wa back bea again I 1 1 I red rear my mission has hem been fruit less Is am bir air life mortimer Alc lunar appeals ads ada broant at a on ill lie is point paint at issue I 1 lou give him rov 1 narabel air in reply nir mr mont nier met desired we me to tell vou rou that if you did not like lt it you could do the other kotlier thing I 1 quote qualm the exact amet sir air he did did ld he be yea air verv good I 1 webster I 1 sir ahen hm Is the tha next train to Lon london donl 1 I will ascertain air cook I 1 believe BBS a thoe timetable table go id and 1 see I ill then I 1 want at to na know cd ad send wis mig Wil hald to roe A very good sir it consoled by the thought that he was resin raking dell definite lie action mr me and bennett lay back and waited for far hil U je I 1 want w out von 1 to go to london lie he glad aid when she appeared 1 to I london bay 11 tell tel I 1 you why mid eald mr bennett vehemently 1 because of that peat ry arg mortimer e I 1 must have hare legal advice I 1 want at you to go sort and ses see sir mallaby marlowe A he becea his bis address tell him till the whole h ae story tell him that this man I 1 is annoying me in every 17 P possible lids bay Y and ad ask if it ft me can t be topped stopped it if you yen in can I 1 see a sir 1111 by tl himself mIf a see mine gome one a else in the firm go up to fir night so that you can see him first thing fi in the morning YOU yog con can stop th the night at the file savoy ive sent mat weir web eter to to look out a in i there 8 a splendid mi larded train in about an hour ril 1711 take that atu it 4 ghang ing yoa jon a lot of trouble triable mid mr air Beffi bennett natt with belated maud consideration drader oh ob no I 1 mid eald billie 1 I im only too glad to be able his to do something par for you rather father dear this noise 1 to a ter nol nuisance sanest it fly you re it a good girl cm said fluid mr me ben A betl sit CHAPTER XI chafa bald d sir mallaby liall by Id marlowe clame ark ahil while youre young sam work ark while you roil re g he H regarded his bla sons bent h head ad with lt ha of forti caRte ficq approval al ft hat bat a the book to av widgery wit on nial prins erld evidence 1 aid SAM ham without looking up CAPI capital 11 said aid sir mallaby high at ah I 1 ly fin improving pr allag ueal and as aa interesting as A a acu ecu el at ame me novels awal there a a eplan mile did bit on I 1 think pigs two hundred and fifty four where hem tile hero hem finds out nil about copyhold old O and customary P a farm it s B a wonderfully V powerful ral situ im fialon it pears but I 1 won ware t spoil it 11 for fill you mind you do don c t kill to how it alt all comes rut lot in 1 the sail end I 1 bit bi allaby suspended so conversation restle while he addressed en an imaginary bell ball with the ahle which I 1 filch he be led had taken fair out em of his bis golf bag for this we was the day when he seat do down to ardt walton heath boath tor or hia bar weekly bourso foursome in e with three old eld metals friends his him tubby tabby f form A waa clad in tweed mard of a violent nature with i knick knickerboc rb hera and ml stockings dge so sarn I 1 wel soul sam a man at the club showed based me a oi or oiw w grip the other day instead of eve clippers tile the little mize fonber r of the tl a liht hand bead oh by the way may sam yes year 1 I 1 bh should old lock up tile the office today 1 I 1 I 1 1 fade I amr ou or mcclon anxious clients and b be e coming 1 in and ailing for far advice an anil you 11 find lounell in difficulties I 1 be bagoe gone and ad pe t ts away Y on all cl if 1 you yen d bother bet lock 1 the ge outer door do all A I 1 I 1 richt mi d sam absently cally ile he am 88 finding widgery widgery tiff reaf fing 11 he had just got to the bit about italian Flearl dle which I 1 ag of if course you knew I 1 IB a arlt fit tor lot taking anay an aa hair ber holding blooms PI sar mallahy halid at his him watch well ill haie to be baw going see sam you 1 so san go good 0 d by str sir mallahy went out ant and sam placing both shows on an the desk and twining his taken finger in his hair returned with a rown frown of ment ration to III his A 9 with wid widgery arry for 0 perhaps chap tea fee ral ot V the amala wit wag an even one the then gradually widgery got the me upper hand ban it sams son mind led numbed by coast constant tit batte rings age against A it the army ramparts of at legal phraseology weak mail ened littered faltered and dropped ay away and moment later his hia thol thoughts ild as aa so I 1 often happened when hen he was alone 1 don darted off and ad bag began to circle round ad the image I 1 m a of f billie bennett be it I 1 ilitch they bad lost last mat sam saia had told 1111 himself hlina elt perhaps R amundred their 1 that tie he cured cared nothing about bulle I 1 that h he had gone gon out ant of his lue life and won wai dead I 1 to him but unfortunately le J 4 tot sult relieve it IL man ma takes take k dual deal A of cinc c convincing inc a on an a point like this and aam am had never ever succeeded eded 1 in convincing himself for more mora than two minutes at a time it was u to pretend that tit 11 he be did d it not of belll love ore billie more titan than a ever ar bemuse because he knew he did and now as the truth swept over him tor for the bond hundred ad aud and first time he be groaned hollowly and gae himself up to the gray despair which la 1 the almost in bell separable rable com companion of young mett man in posit hus his position ilal so eug engrossed vas he in his him credits tion afon that he did not hear the light foot feet air step in the outer office offer and it was we only air when it was waa followed by a top tap on air the do door r of the inner office that he awoke with a start to the fact that clients we were 1 tn his 11 miller midst fie 1 wished lideen that he had taken his fathers father s advice and locked up the office probably tills nae some same frigli trail bore ban who wanted to mole make hla his Ira infernal fereal hlll or something 9 and sam hid bid neither the ability nor tile the inclination nel to assist idea him was waa it too let late a to escape perhaps if he a did not answer tile the knock the blighter might think there them was nobody at home but suppose he opened the door and pooped peeped in A easm of no na palmate lc strategy seized sam sain he dropped silently to the floor bad and mat con celled him himself elf under the desk deek no na was alwain 13 1 3 doing that sort bort of thing there was wag another tat tap then as a he be had anticipated the door opened sam er crouched like a bar hare in its form held his him breath it seemed named to him that mat he was going to bring this delicate ape operation aaion off with success entries he felt he had acted lust just as napoleon won would I 1 it have done in a similar crisis and so BO no doubt he be had to a certain extent only N napaleon Nay aldan aleon would have hare seen man to it that life boots beats and about inches of sered legs lees were not sticking outs out plainly visible to elf all who ho entered good mo morning said ahl a voice sam thrilled tram from the top of his bis head bead to the seles boles of his feet fact it was wall the T voice iise which had a it been ringing in his a irs rs through all his waking hours are you yen busy air marlowe asked BI ballie lie addressing the be boots ta arl 8 sam wriggled out ant from under the desk deik like a disconcerted tortoise dropped my pon pen he mumbled se as he be rose as to the surface ile he pulled himself with an site effort that was ilk like a physical exercise cd 11 ue barrod bared at billie dumbly then the recovering speech he in led b herto c to sit down and ad seated himself at tire the desk dropped toy my pen I 1 he ha gurgled gain again bezi said bald billie For fountain mala pen babbled be sam with a broad brand nib T yes A broad gold ab nib vent t or on so sam with ith the painful emest exactitude fulde which comes only tram from embarrassment or the early my stages of intoxication really said old billie and so sam blinked and told himself resolutely that this would sot do he was not appear ing to advantage it suddenly ud denly occurred to a im him G that his ba hair bell van a standing miles on end as am tire the result mault of his struggle with widgery lie ile smoothed filed it it down hastily and felt a tilde more composed the old fighting spirit of the mallowes Mar lowes saw now began to assert itself to some A ex tor tent he must at make an effort to up ap pear pair a as little of a tool fool as possible I 1 in this girl a eves and what he eyes arco fla aliey octal were golly gaily like searil like two bright planets in however 11 twel that one BBS neither here hem nor alie ahe there pulled down his vest and became mid cold and business businesslike liLe the dry young lawyer t r a how ow do I 1 iau on do miss mike bannet lui he said d with it it A question in his voice raising his him e eyebrows sh rows in a professional nay Y ile he modeled this performance on an that of he be had bad seen man 6 on the file stage and wished he be had some snuff or co take or ar to top tap tte alast him bis fro front nt teeth alkali beeldt I 1 believe ballove ballie 3 title drew herself up stiffly lar she replied ilaw clever of you to remember me 1 I have a good memory how fla nice I 1 I 1 so be hael a I 1 ithem there 11 was a 1 pause during which blell bit 1111 11 lie allowed her gaze gare to trilled travel casually about the room feam be ar occupied lOINal the 1 in term bellon by staring furtively at her profit profile he hm H was m by 11 now flow in a thorough ly 0 0 re caught condition and ad tile he thumping of ill hert heart sounded bounded to him as if workman were mending the street outside low how she looked atre 0 with h th that red d hair peeping hospal out it beneath her hat bat and Hooi narl Is 15 there them anything I 1 can dome do for your year he addled in ID the sort art of voice ought might hm imie a used sam ak alouys ays pictured widgery us am a mall man with bushy eie ale browa brows a bial thin A face and a voice like a duty rusty file well greally I 1 really wanted to ill see sam sit sir usually mallaby mv father has been called away avey on an important business to walton houth cannot I 1 act ml As hla his do iou on know anything about the lowi do I 1 knew anything about the law I 1 echoed S sam based ad do I 1 k know 1 I why I 1 wre wa reading my widgery on an 1111 lines evidence when her you coul came to in oh war were your said allue interest ed ad ilmi IH you yon always alway read on an the floor I 1 told you imi I 1 dropped my I 1 pen said add su sam coldly ared and of course you read without that burl well wall as 1 a matter of tact fact this he ahna nothing to do with nisi abut you said aid I 1 1 I have not specialized specialised on an nil prins evidence I 1 know knew tile the law la in all its branches branch se then what would you yet do it if a man fach insisted on ing the when you yen w wanted red to get to th the I 1 yea tin Alther tilon all ehl ali ah wall bald aid bum brian you still haven b if made it quite quit cloar clear said mid baille T 11 was wak 1111 hig oh if jou iou want to think Is 1 tell me tile the fact facts said aid sam well blell 31 mr blot mortimer time rand and my father h havo taken a house hes th t together h in the coun tri and tor for acme a reason or other alo they MAY have quarreled ruled and ad now MY mr mor mal timer la is dean doing everything he h ra can to make father uncomfortable yesterday aftem afternoon oon father w wanted anted to bleep and mr air mortimer starred tr d this just to annoy him 1 I think I 1 ill not quite its durei sure 1 think athars t a tort fort said mid son A whon what elthe either a tort or a misdemeanor why by you do know something about it a after fter all cried billie startled into a sort of friendliness in spite spit of herself hervor and at the vor words its and the sight of her bar quick smile sams professional composure varied reeled on its foundations As he had halt half risen with iab the purpose of springing up and of the tie pas pd ston slot that consumed consume hin him when the chill chili reflection mine came to hi him en that th this I 1 aamir earl had mus sold said that she considered him blis ridiculous if lie ha let himself dh go would she not coati continue am to thank him I 1 lous ince he rugged angled back into his seat of and at that moment ant there them came an other tap on the door which opening revealed the face of tte the holiday mak ing peters peter good morning sir samuel i said bald john peters good morl morning dg MI miss as girllie lie vanished as abruptly as he tind land appeared lie he pe calved Ted that what he be e OY good morning said a volca voice had taken at first stories glance for far tile the ste te no grap grapher h er was a client and ad that the I 1 junior r partner was engaged on an a blind dehs conference eem he left behind him a momentary silence tt NN hat a horrible man I 1 1 said aid billie breaking it with a little gasp john peters often affected the oppa still site sea aex like that at first sight eight I 1 beg beff your year pardon paid mid SM sim all b bently IN ft hat a dreadful looking man I 1 I 1 ile he quite tightened roe me I 1 I 1 lor of adans A so sam sat at without vichom speaking it this had not been one of his napoleonic mornings morning no doubt ill tho buddeau rival of 11 ill his old mead friend mr life peters whom he had bad imagined at hla him home in putney packing it tor or his a trip to in america would have suggested d nothing to ill him A As it 11 was it euge a ested I 1 a great deal lip ile h hod d had bad a brain wae 1 and ad fop fully a minute he eat tingling under aa impact he was not a a young man who he often 11 had a d first brain 1 ft A a es and ad when the they c came th they 1 made him rather dilly who le is he asked billie ile he seemed oil to know you I 1 and who she deman at after t er a pines pause is ill aless it an sam drew draw A deep breath its be rather allies a sad ad story he said mid his 1112 name inne is 1 john peters he used to be clerk here but fial I 1 he be say any longer larger no be sam shook book ill ills head bead we had to get act rid of hims him 1 I don u t wonder A roan man looking like that it a t that 1 BO emch old ald sam the thing that annoyed father was that he tried to shoot miss alto blue billie uttered I ft cry of 1 ile horror he tried to shoot about miss he did shoot beat heu he her U the third time said sam warning to his work only la in the th arm fortunately fils b abdol buit but my fathers father 1 run rather ft a stem tell d ins riv 1 I 1 1 ed and be bod bad to go r I 1 maran ian we e could fil t keer keep him after affair the that flood grac gral loual she used to b be my fatherty fath fat hertl ed strong milber and ad she he we was thrown good wiB wible lt deal with peters it ana out quite natural rural that be should fall la in I 1 love with th b her she was a beautiful girl with rattier t h r conr own ovin shade of hair pet petera 1 Is man of volcanic fia pai Blona an and fi when it abo alter sha had given bilm to A that hla his love waa a returned she nha Us in formed him one day that she was waa engaged to a fellow at lalling tn he went at right on off hla him onion arderi I 1 thear be h became a completely y distraught 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