[The Strange Case of Cavendish by Randall Parrish]@TWC D-Link bookThe Strange Case of Cavendish CHAPTER XX: TO COMPEL AN ANSWER 5/22
I didn't see the others so es to be sure.
Yer see us help sleep over the kitchen, an' 'bout one o'clock I woke up--here comes Timmons; he mustn't see me talkin' ter yer." She flicked her napkin over the table, picked up an emptied dish and vanished through the swinging-doors.
Timmons, however, merely came in searching for the Chinaman, and not finding the latter immediately, retired again to the office, without even addressing his guest, who was busily eating.
Sadie peered in once more and, seeing all was clear, crossed over beside Westcott. "Well, as I was sayin'," she resumed, "I thought I heard a noise outside, an' got up an' went to the winder.
I couldn't see much, not 'nough so I could swear to nuthin'; but there was three or four men out there just across that little gully, you know, an' they had a woman with 'em.
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