Under His Thumb — page 162: what you’re looking at

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UNDER HIS THUMB. 153 haps that pretty compositor. Perhaps they have masculine angels, but when that epithet is used as a ~ comparison, we generally infer that a female is al- luded to. You probably love your father dearly, for he is evidently very indulgent. But I fancy he would smile to be called ‘innocent as an angel.’ Of course I know you refer only to him.”’ Clarence Blain recoiled with a startled cry, his lips white and quivering, his small, delicate hands clenched. One of those small hands was thrown outward with impetuous force, and but for a timely move- ment to one side the detective would have received the full force of the blow upon the side of his face. Before the young man could repeat the audacious attempt, however, his arms were seized in a grasp of iron, and he was forced back against the closed door. In vain he struggled and writhed under the stern gaze of Croly’s spectacled eyes. ‘Foolish boy!’’ the detective exclaimed, after a moment of silence. “I have learned more than I expected, and at present I shall not request you to add to my information upon this point. I ask you to inform me concerning the hiding-place of George Dyer, however. Do you know whither he went after your interview of night before last?’’ ‘1 do not,”’ Blain huskily replied. “The truth, remember, for I shall detect a false- hood.,’’ “On my life, 1 swear it!’’ “That will do, unless you have seen him since?’’ ‘““T have not.” | “Then youmay go. But let me warn you not to make a bad matter worse by hasty action. If your. Eomichbooks (E(o) m