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I tell you one thing, my friend," he added, as the interpreter washed his hands of us, "you may be a necessity to the travelling public, but you're not a luxury, in any sense of the word." The Senator, discovering to his surprise that the hotel clerk was a lady, lifted his hat. He did not appear to be surprised, that wasn't the Senator's way, but he forgot what he had to say, which proved it.
It was at this little entertainment that Sir Henry told the story of the banker's clerk and the bad boy a true story, he said, although it may be without a moral. The best stories, said Toole, like the best people, have no morals at least, none to make a song about any more than the best dogs have the longest tails.
He gave up and retraced his steps, leaving Matheson to his fate. The name of the young man who had shadowed Matheson was Arthur Dean, and his position in life was that of a clerk in the Leadenhall Street office of Lars Larssen.
Tredowen has been in your mother's family for a good many years, and I should doubt whether it will be easily disposed of." The man at the head of the table raised his head. He looked steadily at the lawyer, who began to wish that he had left the room with his clerk. Decidedly, Sir Wingrave Seton was not an easy man to get on with.
Levine, having "landed" his watch, immediately swore to a verified complaint in an action at law for "goods sold and delivered," setting forth on the date in question he had sold not to the clerk, but to his employer a gold watch for the sum of fifty dollars, which the latter had then and there promised to pay for at once.
Lord Persiflage, on whom Lady Kingsbury chiefly depended for seeing that her own darlings should not be disgraced by being made brothers-in-law to anything so low as a clerk in the Post Office, was angry at last, and declared that it was impossible to help a man who would not help himself. "It is no use trying to pick a man up who will lie in the gutter."
The man looked behind him once or twice, as if half afraid of being followed. Venner had seen that same furtive air in men who are wanted by the police. Fenwick stopped at the office and handed a couple of keys to the clerk. His instructions were quite audible to Venner. "I shan't want those for a day or two," he said. Probably, I shall be back by Saturday at the latest."
After reading a few names his eye was arrested by one "Brandon, Elizabeth." It was his mother. He read on. He soon came to another "Brandon, Edith." It was his sister. "Do you find any of the names?" asked the clerk, seeing Brandon turn his head. "Yes," said Brandon; "this is one," and he pointed to the last name. "But I see a mark opposite that name. What is it? 'B' and 'A. What is the meaning?"
They had scrawled fourteen vigorous scrawls upon the register and made it necessary to turn the page, this of itself affording the clerk a satisfaction quite out of proportion to the apparent unimportance of the incident.
So shaky was he that he could hardly pick up his change, and the clerk had helped him with it. A reference to the timetable showed that the 8:15 was the first train which it was possible for West to take after he had left the lady about 7:30. "Let us reconstruct, Watson," said Holmes after half an hour of silence.
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