23/28 O'Donoghue will have to ride too, though I don't expect he'll like it. It's twenty miles, and O'Donoghue drinks more than is good for him." "Are you going to tell O'Donoghue the whole cock-and-bull plan about Simpkins and Miss King and the murder ?" "No. O'Donoghue is a reasonable man. He doesn't argue and browbeat me the way you do. When I tell him that the removal of Simpkins, and consequently his own future happiness and comfort, depend very largely on our being able to keep Sir Gilbert Hawkesby out of Ballymoy, he will believe me at once and act in a sensible way." "What do you mean to do to the judge when you catch him ?" "I don't mean to _do_ anything. |