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The Dodge House was a popular hostelry for trail men and cattle buyers, and on our making inquiry of the night clerk if a Mr. Siringo was stopping there, we were informed that he was, but had retired. I put up a trivial excuse for seeing him, the clerk gave me the number of his room, and Tussler and I were soon closeted with him.

Wycherley closeted two hours with papa papa had sent for him, I find. What is it makes me think that man is no true friend to Alfred in his advice? I don't like these roundabout speakers: the lively oracles are not roundabout." "March 10th. May I be found watching. "March 11th. Dreadfully starved with these afternoon sermons.

All that any of them knew was that one morning some fifteen months previously, Parrawhite, a complete stranger, had walked into the office, asked to see Eldrick, had remained closeted with him half an hour, and had been given a job at two pounds a week, there and then. That he was a clever and useful clerk no one denied, but no one liked him. He was always borrowing half-crowns. He smelt of rum.

That evening Levy came to him, and accounts were gone into, and papers signed; and the next morning Madame di Negra was free from debt; and there was a great claim on the reversion of the Casino estates; and at the noon of that next day, Randal was closeted with Beatrice; and before the night came a note from Madame di Negra, hurried, blurred with tears, summoning Frank to Curzon Street.

Then the sanguine nature of the woman would bear her up almost to exultation, and for an hour she would be happy in spite of everything. A few days after the ball Roger Carbury was up in town and was closeted with her in her back drawing-room.

He walked away, and I returned up the path heavily, as if a cloud of terror and dole were visibly hanging over our happy Longfield. The doctor appeared; he went up to the sick lad; then he and Mr. Halifax were closeted together for a long time. After he was gone, John came into the kitchen, where Ursula sat with Walter on her knee.

He hastened to call on President Wilson as soon as that statesman arrived in Europe, and, to the surprise of many, the two remained a long time closeted together. "Whatever did you talk about?" asked a colleague of the Greek Premier. "How did you keep Wilson interested in your national claims all that time? You must have " "Oh no," interrupted the modest statesman.

She was closeted with Miriam for a long time, then saw Eleanor. Spence purposely kept away from home. Dante lay unread, as well as the other books which Eleanor placed insidiously in her cousin's room. Letters lay unanswered among them several relating to the proposed new chapel at Bartles. How did Miriam employ herself during the hours that she spent alone?

"It was a revelation," they said, "and M. Pigeonneau had prepared a most agreeable surprise for us." I do not know why I refer to such trifles, because, usually I am quite indifferent as to what they say about me in the newspapers. I had been already closeted in my study for three days when a ring at the door-bell startled me.

So each day, instead of spending the rest of his years in peace, in the enjoyment of the wealth he had accumulated, he went downtown like any twenty-dollar-a-week clerk to the tall building in lower Broadway and, closeted with his associates, toiled and plotted to make more money. He acquired vast copper mines and secured control of this and that railroad.