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I understand it caused something very near a run on the bank; people came in to draw a dollar or so or get change and lingered to feast their outraged visions, so that Blinky Lockwood, the president, had to send Roland home to change before closing-time.
After supper they went to the West End Cinema, and there, just before closing-time, a film, in which everyone was falling into a dirty duck-pond for no ostensible reason, was suddenly stopped, and there appeared across the screen the flaming notice: ENGLAND HAS DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY There was dead silence for a moment. Then cheer upon cheer convulsed the house.
They feels sure The Avenger was in the bar just on closing-time." And then Mrs. Bunting sat down. She felt better now. It was natural the police should suspect a public-house loafer. "Then that's why you wasn't able to go and fetch Daisy, I suppose?" He nodded. "Mum's the word, Mrs. Bunting! It'll all be in the last editions of the evening newspapers it can't be kep' out.
"You leave go o' my lodger," ses Bob Pretty. "You leave go o' my great-uncle my dear great-uncle," ses Henery Walker, as the old gentleman called 'im a bad name and asked 'im whether he thought he was made of iron. I believe they'd ha' been at it till closing-time, on'y Smith, the landlord, came running in from the back and told them to go outside.
Sadly the slow acts pass away until one day, as it is getting near closing-time, she puts on the blue ulster and the red bonnet again and comes in at the old original door. Then he recognizes her and asks her where she has been all these cruel years.
Public houses had long since ejected their late guests, and even those argumentative groups, which, after closing-time, linger on the pavements, within the odor Bacchanalian, were dispersed.
You look down the street between two lines of these lanterns, lines converging far-off into one motionless bar of yellow light. Some of the lanterns are egg-shaped, some cylindrical; others four-sided or six-sided; and Japanese characters are beautifully written upon them. The street is very quiet, silent as a display of cabinet-work in some great exhibition after closing-time.
He produced his card Mr John Eldred and, the register being consulted, a favourable answer was given. 'Now, another point, said he. 'It is a long time since I was here, and I do not know my way about your building; besides, it is near closing-time, and it is bad for me to hurry up and down stairs.
Inquiries as to his right of title had poured in upon him, and to all of them he had returned the most absolute and final assurances. Yet he knew when closing-time came, that he had exhausted every farthing he possessed in the world it seemed hopeless to imagine that he could survive another day. But with the morning came a booming cable from Bekwando.
"I always travel with the right sort," he remarked, holding the golden liquid up to the light. "It's safer and it saves any trouble with orders after closing-time.... These English hotels, you know !" So saying he dispensed whisky and cigarettes, there being a siphon and glasses, and three matches in a match-stand, on the table. "Here's looking!" he said, with raised glass.
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