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coughed.
"
"
"
I don't see that it hurts you to tell me who your employer is."
Don't you? I do."
Prompt," said Bechamel, appreciatively. "Now here's the thing I want to
put to you--the kernel of the whole business. You need not answer if
you don't want to. There's no harm done in my telling you what I want to
know. Are you employed to watch me--or Miss Milton?"
"I'm not the leaky sort," said Mr. Hoopdriver, keeping the secret he did
not know with immense enjoyment. Miss Milton! That was her name.
Perhaps
he'd tell some more. "It's no good pumping. Is that all you're after?"
said Mr. Hoopdriver.
Bechamel respected himself for his diplomatic gifts. He tried to catch
a remark by throwing out a confidence. "I take it there are two people
concerned in watching this affair."
"Who's the other?" said Mr. Hoopdriver, calmly, but controlling with
enormous internal tension his self-appreciation. "Who's the other?" was
really brilliant, he thought.
"
There's my wife and HER stepmother."
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