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Miss Winthrop bit her lips to keep from saying to her hostess what would be more true than polite. There was a flash of anger in Christine's dark blue eyes, and she said, coldly: "I imagine that you have finished the business this time, Miss Brown. But I confess that I am greatly surprised, for he said I could depend upon him for to-night." "So you can," said Dennis, coming in behind them.
"Well, sir?" said Alister, for he had hesitated. "I should enlist in the Royal Engineers." "Nothing like gunpowder," whispered Dennis to me. I kicked him in return. The pros and cons of the matter were not lengthy.
He went to work and jumbled them up as if that were grouping them, and then asked one or two of the other clerks what they thought of it. They shook their heads, and said it looked worse than before. "I vill study over him all day to-morrow, and den vill come early Monday and fix him;" and the perplexed youth took himself off. Dennis felt almost sure that he could arrange it as Mr.
Spare no pains, and be assured I will regret no expense"; and he hastened away to his daughter's bedside. No prisoner at the bar ever listened with more interest than Dennis. If it had been his own case they were discussing it would not have touched him half so nearly. But a moment before, Christine in her pride, wealth, and beauty seemed destined to go through life as in a triumphant march.
One against an army; but it was a full minute or so before the one began to weaken. "Come," whispered Dennis, at last. "If what I think is going to happen occurs, this will be no place for us." They went ahead, with the din of battle dying behind them, till they saw a small tunnel branching off beside the main stem. Into this they squeezed.
If they could run down Philip Holt and Tania the treasure-box would be disclosed as a matter of course. Roy Dennis hesitated for barely a second. Then he remarked to Phil, half-admiringly: "You have been frank with me, Miss Alden, and, to tell you the truth, I think it is about time that I be equally frank with you.
This statement led to the revelation that the barman was similarly affected, and was engaged, at that moment, in the preparation of a famous antidote greatly in demand by sundry newsgatherers and night editors in Park Row. Dennis watched him with interest and remarked that he set out two glasses, after the manner of those who are about to compound an effervescent.
I do not think I have told you the immediate occasion of this particular gathering. It was, in fact, a reception given to Mrs. Ried. It is not likely that I need tell you at this late day that her name was Gracie Dennis Ried. I could have told you much about it, had I been writing a story of that sort. In fact, there is a chance for considerable romancing.
"Why shouldn't I?" an angry tone answered. "The street is public. Ain't I got a right to go long it? What you pinchin' me for, anyhow? I ain't full and it ain't vagrancy to walk along the road to Manlius. You leave me go!" "Put him in the car." said the Chief. "And look here, young fellow. I'll search you later; look here. Here is something for you to chew on for a while. Hold the flash, Dennis.
It was not, perhaps, a very scholarly method which they pursued, but we had no time for study, so Dennis started Alister every day with a new word or sentence, and Alister hammered this into his head as he went about his work, and recapitulated what he had learned before.
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