In the passage he found the Tiger, who, surrounded by a
little crowd, her hat awry and her clothes half torn from her back,
was huddled gasping against the wall.
She saw him and began to speak, but he stopped and faced her. He faced
her, grinding his teeth, and with such an awful fire of fury in his
eyes that she shrank from him in terror, flattening herself against
the wall.
"What did I tell you?" he said in a choked voice, and then passed on.
A few paces down the passage he met one of his own clerks, a sharp
fellow enough.
"Here, Jones," he said, "you see that woman there. She has made a
charge against me. Watch her. See where she goes to, and find out what
she is going to do. Then come and tell me at the office. If you lose
sight of her, you lose your place too. Do you understand?"
"Yes, sir," said the astonished clerk, and Mr. Quest was gone.
He made his way direct to the office. It was closed, for he had told
his clerks he should not come back after court, and that they could go
at half-past four. He had his key, however, and, entering, lit the
gas. Then he went to his safe and sorted some papers, burning a good
number of them. Two large documents, however, he put by his side to
read. One was his will, the other was endorsed "Statement of the
circumstances connected with Edith.
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