Bawdrey

But, knowing your reluctance in the matter of any clue to your identity being circulated, I have given you the name you adopted in the Bawdrey affair: "George Headland."

Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

It was, perhaps, twenty minutes later that young Bawdrey came down and found him all alone in the smoking-room, bending over the table whereon the butler had set the salver containing the whiskey decanter, the soda siphon, and the glasses that were always laid out there, that the gentlemen might help themselves to the regulation "night-cap" before going to bed.

Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

It was, perhaps, twenty minutes later that young Bawdrey came down and found him all alone in the smoking-room, bending over the table whereon the butler had set the salver containing the whisky decanter, the soda siphon, and the glasses that were always laid out there that the gentlemen might help themselves to the regulation "night-cap" before going to bed.

Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

"Oh, thank you, thank you!" said Bawdrey gratefully.

Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

"Yes," answered young Bawdrey, with a half-repressed shudder and a deeper clouding of his rather pale face.

Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

"Funny idea that!" commented young Bawdrey, smiling and accepting the proffered hand.

Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

Then they shook hands and parted, and it was not until after young Bawdrey had gone that either he or Narkom recollected that

Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

"No, you haven't, you duffer!" put in young Bawdrey, with a laugh.

Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

Instead, he had gone straight to the morning-room, an apartment immediately behind that in which the elder Mr. Bawdrey's collection was housed, and from which a broad French window opened out upon the grounds, and it might have caused a scandal had it been known that Mr.. Bawdrey joined him there one minute after leaving the drawing-room.

Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885

On the morrow Mr.. Bawdrey made known the rather surprising piece of news that Mr. Rickaby had written her a note to say that he had received

Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885