'Oward. Don't I know that you don't know; or you
wouldn't come to me. You guess. You're always a-guessing. But guessing
ain't knowing. You don't know; nor yet don't I. What is it to be, if I
find out where that young woman is?"
"A tenner, Billy."
"Five quid now, and five when you've seen her?"
"All right, Billy."
"She's a-going to be married to Smiler next Sunday as ever is down at
Ramsgate; and at Ramsgate she is now. You'll find her, Mr. 'Oward, if
you'll keep your eyes open, somewhere about the 'Fiddle with One String.'
"
This information was so far recognised by Mr. Howard as correct, that he
paid Mr. Cann five sovereigns down for it at once.
CHAPTER LVIII
THE "FIDDLE WITH ONE STRING"
Mr. Gager reached Ramsgate by the earliest train on the following morning,
and was not long in finding out the "Fiddle with One String." The "Fiddle
with One String" was a public-house, very humble in appearance, in the
outskirts of the town, on the road leading to Pegwell Bay. On this
occasion Mr. Gager was dressed in his ordinary plain clothes, and though
the policeman's calling might not be so manifestly declared by his
appearance at Ramsgate as it was in Scotland Yard, still, let a hint in
that direction have ever been given, and the ordinary citizens of Ramsgate
would at once be convinced that the man was what he was.
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