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<p>“All this seems very fantastic.”</p>
<p>“Doesn’t it? One would think a ferocious joke. But our man took it seriously, it appears. He felt himself threatened. In the time, you know, he was in direct communication with old Stott-Wartenheim himself, and had come to regard his services as indispensable. It was an extremely rude awakening. I imagine that he lost his head. He became angry and frightened. Upon my word, my impression is that he thought these Embassy people quite capable not only to throw him out but, to give him away too in some manner or other⁠—”</p>
<p>“How long were you with him,” interrupted the Presence from behind his big hand.</p>
<p>“Some forty minutes, Sir Ethelred, in a house of bad repute called Continental Hotel, closeted in a room which by-the-by I took for the night. I found him under the influence of that reaction which follows the effort of crime. The man cannot be defined as a hardened criminal. It is obvious that he did not plan the death of that wretched lad⁠—his brother-in-law. That was a shock to him⁠—I could see that. Perhaps he is a man of strong sensibilities. Perhaps he was even fond of the lad⁠—who knows? He might have hoped that the fellow would get clear away; in which case it would have been almost impossible to bring this thing home to anyone. At any rate he risked consciously nothing more but arrest for him.”</p>
<p>“Some forty minutes, Sir Ethelred, in a house of bad repute called Continental Hotel, closeted in a room which by the by I took for the night. I found him under the influence of that reaction which follows the effort of crime. The man cannot be defined as a hardened criminal. It is obvious that he did not plan the death of that wretched lad⁠—his brother-in-law. That was a shock to him⁠—I could see that. Perhaps he is a man of strong sensibilities. Perhaps he was even fond of the lad⁠—who knows? He might have hoped that the fellow would get clear away; in which case it would have been almost impossible to bring this thing home to anyone. At any rate he risked consciously nothing more but arrest for him.”</p>
<p>The Assistant Commissioner paused in his speculations to reflect for a moment.</p>
<p>“Though how, in that last case, he could hope to have his own share in the business concealed is more than I can tell,” he continued, in his ignorance of poor Stevie’s devotion to <abbr>Mr.</abbr> Verloc (who was <em>good</em>), and of his truly peculiar dumbness, which in the old affair of fireworks on the stairs had for many years resisted entreaties, coaxing, anger, and other means of investigation used by his beloved sister. For Stevie was loyal.⁠ ⁠… “No, I can’t imagine. It’s possible that he never thought of that at all. It sounds an extravagant way of putting it, Sir Ethelred, but his state of dismay suggested to me an impulsive man who, after committing suicide with the notion that it would end all his troubles, had discovered that it did nothing of the kind.”</p>
<p>The Assistant Commissioner gave this definition in an apologetic voice. But in truth there is a sort of lucidity proper to extravagant language, and the great man was not offended. A slight jerky movement of the big body half lost in the gloom of the green silk shades, of the big head leaning on the big hand, accompanied an intermittent stifled but powerful sound. The great man had laughed.</p>
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<p>In the hansom they presently picked up, the robust anarchist became explanatory. He was still awfully pale, with eyes that seemed to have sunk a whole half-inch into his tense face. But he seemed to have thought of everything with extraordinary method.</p>
<p>“When we arrive,” he discoursed in a queer, monotonous tone, “you must go into the station ahead of me, as if we did not know each other. I will take the tickets, and slip in yours into your hand as I pass you. Then you will go into the first-class ladies’ waiting-room, and sit there till ten minutes before the train starts. Then you come out. I will be outside. You go in first on the platform, as if you did not know me. There may be eyes watching there that know what’s what. Alone you are only a woman going off by train. I am known. With me, you may be guessed at as <abbr>Mrs.</abbr> Verloc running away. Do you understand, my dear?” he added, with an effort.</p>
<p>“Yes,” said <abbr>Mrs.</abbr> Verloc, sitting there against him in the hansom all rigid with the dread of the gallows and the fear of death. “Yes, Tom.” And she added to herself, like an awful refrain: “The drop given was fourteen feet.”</p>
<p>Ossipon, not looking at her, and with a face like a fresh plaster cast of himself after a wasting illness, said: “By-the-by, I ought to have the money for the tickets now.”</p>
<p>Ossipon, not looking at her, and with a face like a fresh plaster cast of himself after a wasting illness, said: “By the by, I ought to have the money for the tickets now.”</p>
<p><abbr>Mrs.</abbr> Verloc, undoing some hooks of her bodice, while she went on staring ahead beyond the splashboard, handed over to him the new pigskin pocketbook. He received it without a word, and seemed to plunge it deep somewhere into his very breast. Then he slapped his coat on the outside.</p>
<p>All this was done without the exchange of a single glance; they were like two people looking out for the first sight of a desired goal. It was not till the hansom swung round a corner and towards the bridge that Ossipon opened his lips again.</p>
<p>“Do you know how much money there is in that thing?” he asked, as if addressing slowly some hobgoblin sitting between the ears of the horse.</p>
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<p><abbr>Mr.</abbr> Verloc answered with some surprise that he was not aware of having anything special to say. He had been summoned by a letter⁠—And he plunged his hand busily into the side pocket of his overcoat, but before the mocking, cynical watchfulness of <abbr>Mr.</abbr> Vladimir, concluded to leave it there.</p>
<p>“Bah!” said that latter. “What do you mean by getting out of condition like this? You haven’t got even the physique of your profession. You⁠—a member of a starving proletariat⁠—never! You⁠—a desperate socialist or anarchist⁠—which is it?”</p>
<p>“Anarchist,” stated <abbr>Mr.</abbr> Verloc in a deadened tone.</p>
<p>“Bosh!” went on <abbr>Mr.</abbr> Vladimir, without raising his voice. “You startled old Wurmt himself. You wouldn’t deceive an idiot. They all are that by-the-by, but you seem to me simply impossible. So you began your connection with us by stealing the French gun designs. And you got yourself caught. That must have been very disagreeable to our government. You don’t seem to be very smart.”</p>
<p>“Bosh!” went on <abbr>Mr.</abbr> Vladimir, without raising his voice. “You startled old Wurmt himself. You wouldn’t deceive an idiot. They all are that by the by, but you seem to me simply impossible. So you began your connection with us by stealing the French gun designs. And you got yourself caught. That must have been very disagreeable to our government. You don’t seem to be very smart.”</p>
<p><abbr>Mr.</abbr> Verloc tried to exculpate himself huskily.</p>
<p>“As I’ve had occasion to observe before, a fatal infatuation for an unworthy⁠—”</p>
<p><abbr>Mr.</abbr> Vladimir raised a large white, plump hand. “Ah, yes. The unlucky attachment⁠—of your youth. She got hold of the money, and then sold you to the police⁠—eh?”</p>
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