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He had stopped, and was looking back toward the house Clarendon was a great place for looking back, perhaps because there was little in the town to which to look forward when a white man, wearing a tinned badge upon his coat, came up, took Peter by the arm and led him away, despite some feeble protests on the old man's part. Five
He was a scrawny little fellow with a wide, loose-lipped mouth and a protuberant Adam's apple; beside his identity badge, he wore a two-inch celluloid button lettered: I.F.A.W. STEWARD. "Wanta use the phone," he said. "Union business." Melroy gestured toward a telephone on the desk beside him. The newcomer shook his head, twisting his mouth into a smirk.
The ready natural kindliness of the royal action awoke ecstatic applause, which could hardly have been heartier had the applauders known how true a type that act supplied of Her Majesty's future conduct. She has never feared to peril her dignity by descending a step or two from her throne, when "sweet mercy, nobility's true badge," has seemed to require such a descent.
The police officer listened attentively and interestedly until Bob came to the part about the detective. As he began to tell of that the sergeant started perceptibly. "A detective, yez said?" he demanded. "Yes," said Bob, "he had a badge on." "Can yez describe him?" "Well," said Bob, "he was a man about five feet seven inches tall; he had dark hair and a close-cut black mustache.
He, too, has nothing left to sell or to pawn for bread, except oh, not this gilded badge, see, this is only foil and cardboard, except, I say, the thing itself, of which you respect even so poor a symbol, nothing left to sell or to pawn but Honour!
Then they inspected his badge, looked at a sort of identifying card he carried in an inner pocket, and were satisfied. "But what does it all mean?" asked Grace. "I didn't know you were going in for that sort of thing, Will! How did it happen? And are there any smugglers around here?" "Hist! Not a word! Sush!
I had some beatin' to do, but I done it and made a get-a-way good 'nough for the movies. Don't ask me where I'm at, for it's a secret. But, say, Kid. Oh, you scout badge! It's a miracle worker and better than real coin. I wouldn't give it up for a Liberty Bond. So long! can't tell you just now what my private post-office box is but will later.
So Jacqueline was left to tell the handsome big brother about her wonderful acquisition. The merit badge of True Tred Troop!
"Certainly," said Berkley, buying a badge and pinning it in his button-hole. "Being a hero, I require the trade-mark. Kindly permit that I offer a suggestion " a number of people waiting to buy badges; were now listening to him "those gentlemen gathered there in front of the New York Hotel seem to be without these marks which distinguish heroes from citizens.
He held in his hand a silver truncheon, the badge of delegated command over the Immortal Guards, and kneeling before the Emperor, presented it to his hands, intimating a virtual resignation of the command which it implied. The whole assembly were electrified at the appearance of a person long supposed either dead, or by cruel means rendered incapable of public trust.
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