But the growls becoming more and more impatient she
speedily turned to go, repeating, however, as she did so,
"Now remember what I say, you are not to be troubled if they do speak
cross to you. They make noise enough themselves sometimes, as you
will doubtless be assured of to-night."
And the lips which seemed to have grown stiff and cold with her
misery, actually softened into something like a smile.
The nod which I gave her in return had the solemnity of a vow in it.
My mind thus assured as to the correctness of my suspicions, and the
way thus paved to the carrying out of my plans, I allowed some few
days to elapse without further action on my part. My motive was to
acquaint myself as fully as possible with the habits and ways of these
two desperate men, before making the attempt to capture them upon
which so many interests hung. For while I felt it would be highly
creditable to my sagacity, as well as valuable to my reputation as a
detective, to restore these escaped convicts in any way possible into
the hands of justice, my chief ambition after all was to so manage the
affair as to save the wife of Mr. Blake, not only from the
consequences of their despair, but from the publicity and scandal
attendant upon the open arrest of two heavily armed men.
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