Chapter XI THE PUZZLEMENT OF NIGEL ENNISON Nigel Ennison walked towards his club the most puzzled man in London. She felt terribly modern, even sporty as the magazines declared you should be. Whence she came,—who she was,—and what she wanted,—were questions which naturally suggested themselves to Blueskin, and he was about to seek for some explanation, when his curiosity was checked by a gesture of silence from the lady. ’ She tossed her head. "Stop a minute, my dear," cried Austin. If ever I could bring myself to ask you any favour, I would ask you to forget even as I have forgotten. It was like pouring a strong acid over dulled metal. “All your dreadful scientific things?” he said, with a smile that Miss Klegg thought extraordinarily kindly. It’s the only clean way for us. On the contrary, he was a universal favourite, and numbered amongst his intimate acquaintances the choicest spirits of the time,—Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, and "all the better brothers. It also told you how to write on all occasions, how to take out a patent, how to doctor a horse, and who Achates was. “I cut off his right hand pinky with his own rusty bolt cutter. What could be simpler than, with a set of inquiries relative to a South Sea tramp registered as The Tigress, to make a tour of all the marine insurance companies in HongKong? O'Higgins proceeded to put the idea into action; and by noon he had in his possession a good working history of the owner of The Tigress and the exact latitude and longitude of his island.
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