That's
our trump card. Everything hangs on that. And to make sure there's
no hitch, I shall do exactly what I've been told to do. I expect
I shall be watched. I shall be there at four o'clock, and ten
minutes after I hope we shall have laid hands on--whoever it is."
Walter nodded.
"I don't see how we can fail," he said.
CHAPTER XXIV
AN APHORISM
"No," Dunn agreed after a long pause. "No, I don't see myself how
failure is possible; I don't see what there is to go wrong. All the
same, I shan't be sorry when it's all over; I suppose I'm nervous,
that's the truth of it. But Deede Dawson's hardly the sort of man
I should have expected to lay all his cards on the table so openly."
"Oh, I think that's natural enough," answered Walter. "Quite
natural--he thinks you are in with him and he tells you what he
wants you to do. But I don't quite see the object of your visit to
the Abbey the other day. You gave me the shock of my life, I think.
I hadn't the least idea who you were--that beard makes a wonderful
difference."
Dunn laughed quietly.
"It's a good disguise," he admitted. "I didn't quite know myself
first time I looked in a mirror. We went to the Abbey to prepare
for a burglary there."
"Oh, is that on the cards, too?" exclaimed Walter. "I didn't expect
that."
"Yes," answered Dunn. "My own idea is that Deede Dawson sees an
opportunity for making a bit on his own.
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