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Bailey clinched the thing by showing an agreement with the stage line to transport the provisions at a price per hundred pounds notably lower than Crane and Keith imagined could be obtained, and went home carrying the contract Scattergood had sent him to get. Scattergood put the paper away in his safe and sat back in his reinforced armchair, with placid satisfaction making benignant his face.
Was it possible that Bailey or his Italian manservant had unexpectedly returned! Those breathless moments seemed hours. Suddenly he heard a second challenge. The challenger used a fierce Italian oath, and by it he knew that it was Pietro. In reply, a shot rang out evidently from the sergeant's pistol, followed by another sharp report, and still another.
The railway ended at Southminster, but on alighting they had little difficulty in finding the small police station, where the local sergeant of police awaited them, having been warned by telephone. "Well, gentlemen," said the red-faced man, spreading his big hands on his knees as they sat together in a back room, "Mr. Bailey ain't at home just now. He's away a lot.
But sometimes there were delays at one end or the other, for accidents happened to the stages once in a while. There had been hold-ups, too, but not since Mr. Bailey had taken charge. If the stage at Golden Crossing was not on time the pony express rider had to wait for it, sometimes all night. On such occasions Mr. Bailey had stayed with his relative, Mrs.
All that had happened, her mad escapade with Dorrimore, the baseness of her mother, her escape from the house in the Old Bailey, her many trials and tribulations were mere trifles to be forgotten as soon as possible. But her thoughts of Lancelot Vane oh, they were serious enough. There was no pretence about them. And to fill her cup of joy would be her first appearance on the stage!
"It really doesn't matter," said Doris, as she placed his tray on the table and turned to go. "I reckon you're right." And his dark eyes grew moody again. "There's a man in the reception-room waiting to see you," said Doris. "I told him you were having your dinner." "Another one, eh? Oh, I was forgittin'. I got a letter from Jim Bailey" Pete fumbled in his shirt "and I thought mebby "
Earle, who waved her pocket handkerchief at the audience, which was the occasion for renewed hand-clapping and enthusiasm. Selma walked not far behind and took her seat among the forty other members, who all wore white silk badges stamped in red with the sentiment "A vote for Luella Bailey is a vote for the liberty of the people." Her pulses were throbbing with interest and pleasure.
Captain Cy was described as possessing all the virtues. Bailey, listening with a hand behind his ear, was moved to applause at frequent intervals, and even Asaph forgot the dignity of his exalted position on the platform and pounded the official desk in ecstasy. The only person to appear uninterested was the nominee himself.
The art of subtle suggestion could hardly go further than in this line, where the alliterating v's, the mute e's, and the placing of the long syllables combine so wonderfully to produce the required effect. But it is not only suggestions of nature that readers like Mr. Bailey are unable to find in Racine they miss in him no less suggestions of the mysterious and the infinite.
His spirit had been wellnigh broken as he was carried from that court-house in the Old Bailey to his prison on the river-side; and a broken spirit, like a broken goblet, can never again become whole. But Nature was a kind mother to him, and did not permit him to be wholly crushed.
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