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Kerry staring, in silence, the Assistant Commissioner continued: "I have been advised that this nameless agent is in a position to establish his bona fides at any time, as he bears a number of these cards. You see, Chief Inspector, I am frank with you." From a table drawer the Assistant Commissioner took a visiting-card, which he handed to Kerry.
Kent turned over the envelope the flap was held down securely with a large red seal which bore the one letter "B." He dropped the envelope inside the drawer, locked the compartment, and closed the door of the safe. "Let us talk," he suggested and led the way back to their chairs. "Helen," he began, after she was seated.
"I've started right in to work it out. Let me see those notes and messages you received." Prale got them from the dresser drawer and handed them to Farland. The detective looked them over, even going as far as to use a magnifying glass. "Don't laugh!" Farland said.
"Why don't you bring my own mamma?" said she. "Look at me, darling," said her mother, "here I am, right here. Mother won't leave her little Prudy again." "I ain't Prudy!" screamed the child; "Prudy's gone to heaven. God came and helped her up the steps." One of the first things Mrs. Parlin did was to cut off her little daughter's beautiful curls, and lay them tenderly away in a drawer.
After the operation has been completed, the bundles are taken out of the boiler and allowed to dry in the air. They must not be opened until the occasion for which the supplies were prepared arrives; awaiting this event, they are laid away in a convenient closet or drawer.
Nobody saw him take the bonds, to be sure, but he has had every opportunity of doing so, living in the same house, as he does. Again, a key has been found in his pocket, which will open the bureau drawer in which the bonds were kept; and, thirdly, I can testify, and the boy admits, that he presented them at our office for sale, and received the money for them.
The drawer was called accordingly, and Richie discharged the reckoning of the party, with a generous remuneration to the attendants, which was received with cap and knee, and many assurances of "Kindly welcome, gentlemen."
Clive's venerable uncle happened to be looking into a drawer marked 'Gentianæ Rad. Pulv. He closed the drawer with slow hesitation, and then, stroking his long white beard, replied in that deliberate voice which seemed always to tremble with religious fervour: 'The hand of the Lord is in this thing, Clive. I have wished that you might come to live here with me.
He proffered her the note, the proprietor at the same time calling out: "Two, seven." The girl turned the book down to keep the place; then she took the note, and opened a small drawer, in which she fumbled for some moments. Closing the drawer, she rose to her feet and waved the note over the curtain to her right.
Thea smiled grimly and tossed it into her upper drawer. She was not to be consoled by toys. She undressed quickly and stood for some time in the cold, frowning in the broken looking glass at her flaxen pig-tails, at her white neck and arms. Her own broad, resolute face set its chin at her, her eyes flashed into her own defiantly.
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