[The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Judgment House CHAPTER IX 8/42
He's going to say that the traitor is some one inside our circle." Byng started, and his hands clutched at the chairback, then he became quiet and watchful.
"And whom does Fleming--or you--suspect ?" he asked, with lowering eyelids and a slumbering malice in his eyes. Barry straightened himself and looked Byng rather hesitatingly in the face; then he said, slowly: "I don't know much about Fleming's suspicions.
Mine, though, are at least three years old, and you know them. "Krool ?" "Krool--for sure." "What would be Krool's object in betraying us, even if he knew all we say and do ?" "Blood is thicker than water, Byng, and double pay to a poor man is a consideration." "Krool would do nothing that injured me, Barry.
I know men.
What sort of thing has been given away to Brother Boer ?" Barry took from his pocket a paper and passed it over.
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