[Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Thomas W. Hanshew]@TWC D-Link bookCleek: the Man of the Forty Faces CHAPTER VIII 2/9
"I know a dozen places beside 'The Inn of the Twisted Arm' from which one can get into the sewers. I've screwed a bolt and socket on the inner side of this trap in case of an emergency, and I've carried a few things into the passage for 'afterwards.' I suppose that fellow Merode, as he calls himself, is in his room, waiting ?" "Yes; and, although he pretends to be alone to-night, he--he has other men with him, hideous, ruffianly looking creatures, whom I saw him admit after the servants had gone.
The countess has left the house and gone I don't know where." "I do, then.
Make certain she's at 'The Twisted Arm,' waiting, first, for the coming of Clodoche, and, second, for the arrival of this precious 'Merode' with the remaining half of the document.
I've sent Dollops there to carry out his part of the programme, and when once I get the password Margot requires before she will hand over the paper, the game will be in my hands entirely.
They are desperate to-night, Miss Lorne, and will stop at nothing--not even murder.
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