Chapter 23
A STARTLING DECISION Before Mr. Ransom and the lawyer had recovered from their astonishment, Hazen had slipped from the room. As Mr. Harper started to follow, he saw the other's head disappearing down the staircase leading to the office. He called to him, but Hazen declined to turn. "No time," he shouted back. "I shall have to make use of somebody's automobile now, to get to the Ferry in time." The lawyer did not persist, not at that moment; he went back to his client and they had a few hurried words; then Mr. Harper went below and took up his stand on the portico. He was determined that Hazen should not leave the place without some further explanation. It was light where he stood and he very soon felt that this would not do, so he slipped back into the shade of a pillar, and seeing, f
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