[The Borough Treasurer by Joseph Smith Fletcher]@TWC D-Link bookThe Borough Treasurer CHAPTER VI 14/17
Come in and tell me a bit more about it." He led the way up a gravelled drive, admitted himself and his visitors to the house with a latchkey, and turned into a parlour where a fire burned and a small supper-tray was set out on a table beneath a lamp. "All my folks'll have gone to bed," he said.
"They go and leave me a bite of something, you see--I'm often out late.
Will you gentlemen have a sandwich--or a dry biscuit? Well, you'll have a drink, then.
And so," he went on, as he produced glasses from the sideboard, "and so you were spending the evening with Cotherstone, what ?" "Well, I can't say that we exactly spent all the evening with him," answered Bent, "because he had to go out for a good part of it, on business.
But we were with him--we were at his house--when the news came." "Aye, he had to go out, had he ?" asked Mallalieu, as if from mere curiosity.
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