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His uncle watched him curiously and with displeased surprise, for that he could hesitate at all seemed to the worldly man an evidence of fatal weakness. Roger fought it out like a genuine Atwood, and was nearer akin to his uncle than the old merchant would ever suspect.
"High class crooks like Atwood, while they work alone, are often hard to get, but sooner or later they grow ambitious. They want to be the brains of an organization. Then they call in second-rate crooks like 'Baldy' and Wagner, to do the dirty work. These men are never so clever, and some day, through them, the police get their hands on the man higher up.
That was the reason why Merton was murdered." Hunt threw the remains of his cigar into the fireplace, and slipped the hand that had held it down into the pillows of the davenport. "And you think you have at last located this man Atwood do you, Mr. Marsh?"
She keeps her, as I tell her, within the sweep of her own hawse, Sir Gervaise." "So much the wiser she, Master Dutton," returned the admiral, pointedly. "The best pilot for a young woman is a good mother; and now you have a fleet in your roadstead, I need not tell a seaman of your experience that you are on pilot-ground; hey! Atwood?"
Each hour that passed after Toby had decided, with Uncle Daniel's consent, to go into the circus business made him more eager to carry out the brilliant plan that had been unfolded by Bob Atwood and Reddy Grant, until his brain was in a perfect whirl when he went to bed that night. He was sure he could ride as well as when he was under Mr.
Among the more agitated was Johnny, the son of Judge Atwood, who lived in the big colonial mansion on the edge of Dalesburg. It would seem that the desirable Rosine should have been pleased to return the affection of an Atwood, a name honoured all over the state long before and since the war.
Indeed there was nothing that she shrank from more than the chance of meeting those who had known her in the city. Later in the day Susan said to her mother, with much satisfaction, "She's not stuck up at all, and we might have found it out before. I can't go back to the kitchen and live in our old haphazard way. I can see now that it wasn't nice at all." "We'll see," said the politic Mrs. Atwood.
If one, hold up a single finger; and a finger for each additional executor you wish us to insert in these blanks. One, Atwood you perceive, gentlemen, that Sir Wycherly raises but one finger; and so you can give a flourish at the end of the 'r, as the word will be in the singular; hey! Atwood?" The secretary did as directed, and then reported himself ready to proceed.
"It's a hand that can be depended upon, strong and ready." Mildred smiled as she replied, "You're welcome to it, Belle." "You needn't smile so placidly," she retorted, with an ominous nod. "We are not through with Roger Atwood yet." Perhaps quotations from two letters written by Clara to Mildred and Belle, and received a week later, will form a satisfactory ending to this chapter.
You know less about them than about heaven. Do you forget that I am of age? You made me an offer, and I thanked you for it honestly and gratefully. What's more, I was base enough to be tempted by it. Oh, yes" with a bitter laugh "I was an Atwood enough for that.
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