[The Simpkins Plot by George A. Birmingham]@TWC D-Link bookThe Simpkins Plot CHAPTER XVI 21/28
"So if it's that you want you're as badly off this minute as I am myself.
He's not gone, and what's more he won't go." "You told me this minute that he was gone.
What on earth do you mean by coming up here and pouring out lamentations in gallons about the loss of your three pounds a week if he hasn't gone? What do you mean by representing to me that the judge used bad language about his food if he didn't? I don't see what you're at, Doyle; and, to be quite candid, I don't think you know yourself.
Go home and think the whole business over, and I'll see you about it in the afternoon." "Every word I told you is the truth." "Either the judge is gone," said Meldon, "or he isn't gone.
What do you mean ?" "What I said was, that he isn't gone yet but he's going, without something's done to stop him." "That's the same thing," said Meldon, "for nothing will be done." "But he'll not go from Ballymoy? Why would he when he has the fishing took ?" "He'll have to go out of Ballymoy if he leaves your hotel.
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