"Stout, Rex - Warner and Wife" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stout Rex)

"Indeed! I supposed as much, or I would have seen you. I told you last night I wanted to talk
over this Hamlin & Hamlin matter at the breakfast table."

"I know. I'm sorry. But you see"-- Mr. Warner appeared to hesitate--"I--the fact is, the beastly
alarm clock failed to go off."

"Did you wind it?"

"No." This manfully.

WARNER & WIFE

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Lora Warner sighed. "Timmie, you are unthinkable! What about Hamlin & Hamlin? Did you
look it over ?"

This simple question seemed to upset Mr. Warner completely. He grew red, hesitated, and finally
stammered:

"No-- that is-- I read something--"

"Do you mean you didn't?"

He nodded reluctantly.

"Then what were you doing? There was a light in your room when I went to bed."

Mr. Warner gazed on the floor, and was silent.

"What were you doing?"

Still silence.

"I have asked you twice, Timmie, what you were doing." The tone was merciless.

Mr. Warner, seeing there was no help for it, raised his eyes and met her gaze. "I was playing
solitaire," he announced bravely.

Then, before the storm had time to break, he continued apologetically:

"I didn't know there was any hurry about it, my dear, or I would have looked it over at once. The
case doesn't come up till the twenty-fifth. Besides, you said you had it all worked up, and merely
wanted my opinion onnnne or two minor points. If I had known you really needed--" He stopped
suddenly.

"Well? If you had known I really needed--"