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In the latter event, who was conceivably responsible but Velasco, Dressier, O'Reilly any one of these, or all three working in concert?
Her simple gown, with the little piece of ribbon around her graceful neck, seemed almost distinguished by comparison with the loud-patterned and dressier blouses of the two girls who had now hemmed him in. For a moment he ignored the waiting pages. "Your cousin," he remarked, "is quite unlike any of you. Has she been with you long?" Louise looked up a little tartly. "Oh, about three years.
Lanyard nodded; but the third, a plumply ingratiative native of Geneva, known to the ship as Emil Dressier, frowned in puzzlement. "Pardon, Monsieur Crane, but what is that you say 'this way out'?" "Simply," Crane explained, "I take the firing to mean the execution of our nootral friends from Norway." The Swiss shuddered. "It is most terrible!" "Well, I don't know about that.
There remained Dressier, the stout, self-satisfied Swiss, whose fawning manner was possibly accounted for by his statement that he journeyed to New York to engage in the trade of restaurateur in partnership with his brother; Crane, long and awkward and homely, of saturnine cast, slow of gesture and negligent as to dress, his humorous sense clouding a power of shrewd intelligence; and Senor Arturo Velasco, of Buenos Aires, middle-aged, apparently extremely well-to-do, a thoughtful type, more self-contained than most of his countrymen.
She wore them serially as they came from the row of hangers in her closet. Now she began to acquire some dressier things, wearing them even during her shopping trips. James paid little attention to this change in his housekeeper's routine, but he approved. Mrs.
If the number of that group which Lanyard had selected as comprising a majority of his enemies, those nine who had discussed the Lone Wolf in the smoking room, was now reduced to five Becker, Dressier, O'Reilly, Putnam, and Velasco or four, eliminating Putnam, of whose loyalty there could be no question Lanyard still had no means of knowing how many confederates among the other passengers these four might not have had.
Suffering in our feet. No foot-gear. "Monday, October 24 134th Day: A hard night. "Tuesday, October 25 135th Day. "Wednesday, October 26 136th day. "Thursday, October 27 137th Day: Iverson broken down. "Friday, October 28 138th Day: Iverson died during early morning. "Saturday, October 29th 139th Day: Dressier died during the night.
The woman sat back in her chair, attentive to the posturing of the dancer, slowly fanning herself. Lanyard's semblance of as much interest was nothing more; furtively his watchfulness alternated between two quarters of the room. On the farther edge of the circle of tropical radiance he had marked down a table at which two men were seated, Dressier and O'Reilly.
Frederick Wetmore, in writing of the Spring Exhibition of the Royal Painter Etchers, says: "Miss Kemp-Welch, whose best work, so delicate that it could only lose by the reduction of a process block, shows the ordinary English country, the sign-post of the crossways, and the sheep along the lane." <b>KENDELL, MARIE VON.</b> Born in Lannicken, 1838. Pupil of Pape, Otto von Kameke, and Dressier.
But in his insensate passion for revenge upon one who had all but murdered him, he had forgotten all else but the moment's specious opportunity. With a grunt of impatience Lanyard turned away from the desk, and came face to face with Crane. The Secret Service man was coming from the direction of the bar in company with Velasco, O'Reilly, and Dressier.
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