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At last, at the corner of a street, I ran into the arms of one who was evidently a gentleman, and who, in all his appointments, from his furred great-coat to the fine cigar which he was smoking, comfortably breathed of wealth. Even veiled as I then was, I could perceive the gentleman was struck by my appearance: and this emboldened me for my adventure.
The night, through which the first glimpse of dawn just peered, was extremely cold; and Barton, who had left his great-coat in the Hit or Miss, stamped his way homeward, his hands deep in his pockets, his hat tight on his head, and with his pipe for company. "There's the gray beginning, Zooks," he muttered to himself, in half-conscious quotation.
It was a chill, damp, windy night, when the Jew: buttoning his great-coat tight round his shrivelled body, and pulling the collar up over his ears so as completely to obscure the lower part of his face: emerged from his den.
There is a detective from Scotland Yard and his subordinates, and a gentleman in whom I also have most implicit confidence. We will resume our dinner, if you please, ladies and gentlemen." Unwillingly, the people were led away. John Dory was already in his great-coat, ready to spring into the powerful motor-car which had been ordered out from the garage.
La Branche, the Speaker of the Louisianian legislature, in the hall of the Senate, according to report, struck him with his whip on account of some unsettled dispute, and in return received a bullet from the Speaker's pistol, which took effect in the breast of the great-coat he wore, but failed to penetrate it. Mr. Grimes, upon this, fired his pistol, loaded with ball and buck-shot, at Mons.
Presently a man came out in a great-coat and with a small bag in his hand; Neigh at once recognizing the person as Chickerel, went up to him. 'Mr. Doncastle tells me you are going on a sudden journey. At what time does your train leave? Neigh asked. 'I go by the ten o'clock, sir: I hope it is a third-class, said Chickerel; 'though I am afraid it may not be.
"There is a fire in the woodshed, master," said Hat, leading the way. "Now, my good soul, now! You want first to be put upon your oath?" "Yes, sir." The old man drew from his great-coat pocket a miniature copy of the Scriptures, and with the usual formalities administered the oath. "Now, then, my good soul, begin 'the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, you know.
"What d'ye call him, Molly?" said Parson Jones. He was standing, as he spoke, with his back to the fire, warming his palms before the blaze. The pocket of the great-coat he wore bulged out with a big case-bottle of spirits which he had gathered up out of the wreck that afternoon. "What d'ye call him, Molly?" "I'll call him Tom, after my own baby."
He settled the lapels of his great-coat with precision, addressed his palm to the knob of his stick, and marched stiffly out of the library, around the piazza, and along the dismantled walk to the front gate. Peter stood utterly astonished at this strange information.
They found the boy stolidly waiting for Marcia on the veranda of the hotel, stamping first upon one foot and then the other, and hugging himself in his great-coat as the coming snow-fall blew its first flakes in his face. "Is that you, Andy?" asked Bartley. "Yes, sir," answered the boy, without surprise at finding him with Marcia. "Well, here! Just take hold of the colt's head a minute."
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