Barbara On Her Own by Edgar Wallace

Author:Edgar Wallace
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Barbara on Her Own
ISBN: 9780755122240
Publisher: House of Stratus
Published: 2012-12-13T16:00:00+00:00

Dear Sir (said the letter), – Having given the matter thort and talked it over with brother artists, must decline kind offer re wild man act, the same being, as everybody says, very lowering to my position.

Yours truly,

Okko.

Barbara said something naughty. Alan had sent paragraphs to all the newspapers about the wild man.

She heard Mr Lark in the shop below giving instructions to the cleaners (he was so constituted that he could never pass a subordinate without giving some sort of instructions more or less uncalled for), and beckoned him from the head of the stairs.

She showed him the letter.

“This is the wild man you were talking about? That’s very unfortunate – very. It was in the evening papers last night; I heard people talking about it going home in the Tube.”

“Of course,” said Barbara – she did not meet his eyes and her voice was a little husky, but that might have been from tiredness – “it might be possible to get a substitute.”

Lark shook his head.

“Not for a wild man, miss. For a salesman or a young lady in the mantle department, but not a wild man from Borneo. I don’t suppose he’s any more from Borneo than I am.”

“If it were possible to get a substitute–” she said, gazing abstractedly down the stairs. “After all, he’d no right to be here. I’m not so sure we couldn’t charge him with burglary.”

Mr Lark staggered back a pace and held on to a partition.

“Not – not the Wire?” he asked hollowly.

She nodded deliberately.

“He’d be much more comfortable there, if we put a nice mat for him to lie on and covered him with some blankets, than he is in your chair.”

Mr Lark opened the door to his room and peeped in. The Wire did not move, though the intruder pushed a chair across the floor. He came back to Barbara.

“Go into your room, miss,” he said gently. “I’ll tell you when its all over.”

There was no word in the early edition about the burglary at Maber & Mabers. Mr Atterman sent specially down to the City for the first papers, examined all the news that came though on the tape, and experienced a genuine relief when he found the item he expected and dreaded did not appear in print.

But what had happened to Minkey? He had got away and gone home probably. The man was exhausted. Musing down on the crowd before Mabers, Eh realised that the “display” was a success. They had got their wild man from Borneo, and evidently he was a fascinating wild man; for even the mounted police patrols were called from the roadway to ride along the pavement and clear the block that was disorganising the traffic. The aid afforded by a pair of powerful field-glasses failed to help him see through the heads that moved and swayed between Mr Atterman and the jungle window; and at last, his curiosity piqued, he went downstairs, crossed the road, and slowly made a progress through the

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