Part 4 (1/2)
”Do you hearnow”
”Yes, I hear you, but I will not leave his side You cowards! do you want to kill et hold of the mad fool before worse co and scuffling, the word ”Help!” blurred and stifled as if a hand had been suddenly clapped over the speaker's lips, and Chester ling violently as she was being half carried from the room
Stirred by excitement to the deepest depths, Chester rushed to her help, and was brought up sharp by the dining table, while the scuffling continued upon the other side
He felt his way along the edge, to pass round it in the darkness, but the noise he made betrayed his whereabouts, and his next step took hi hands, which held him firmly, and before he could free hiht showed for a moment, and before it was shut off he dile; then the door was closed, and the voice of hiht up, Paddy”
A glass was knocked frory oath followed; and then came the rattle of massive fire-irons
”Are you drunk, man?” came in the sarowled ”Ah! that's it”
The cluster of incandescent lights glowed golden, and then brightened, showing the doctor that the dining table was between him and the couch where his patient lay, white andwhere he had last seen hi felloith a family likeness close by the mantelpiece; another, the one who had held him, close by
”Well, doctor,” said the chief spokesman, cynically, ”the storo, and ere seated happily after our coffee and cigarettes, when that idiot began to play the fool with his revolver, and shot himself Troubles never coise for what has happened since we all lost our tempers and behaved so foolishly”
Chester looked at him sternly and remained silent
”You will excuse my hastiness I was excited in my anxiety about the poor fool there, and you see no imperative it is that you should not leave hih to unlock that door, sir, and let h?” said Chester, coldly
”To be perfectly plain, doctor--no, I will not Let us understand one another at once You will have to stay and make the best of it”
”I shall not stay, sir, and as soon as I leave here I shall take what steps seeht, to be correct over what has been an outrage toward me; and without doubt a murderous attack upon that unfortunate man”
”Murderous attack? Absurd, doctor! An accident”
”Do you take me for a child, sir? He could not have shot himself Now, if you please, unlock that door”
”When I unlock it, doctor, it will be to go out and lock you in,” said the other, grile, so make the best of it You are in for a week, but we'll make it as coraoodness to understand me, sir!” said Chester, firmly
”I do, my dear doctor, but you will not understand me A ith your patient will not hurt you, and a fee of a couple of hundred guineas shall be paid--now, if you like There, I will be plain with you, as a man of the world It was a family quarrel, and two hot-headed fools drew their revolvers--Yankee fashi+on Here, Paddy, see that we have soarette, doctor? Sit down, and let's chat it over like sensible ain, sir,” said Chester, fir words I mean to leave this house at once”
”We often s that are impossible, doctor You cannot
So act sensibly Take some refreshoodness to look round this room?”
Chester made no reply