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Razumov drew to himself a half-sheet of paper and began to trace lines on it with a pencil. "Upon my word," he thought angrily, "he seems to have thought of everybody's safety but mine." Haldin was talking on. "This morning ah! this morning that was different. How can I explain to you? Before the deed was done I wandered at night and lay hid in the day, thinking it out, and I felt restful.
When did they meet, and in what time from starting? Now then there are your figures, where did they meet? Look and tell me." Dexter took the half-sheet of paper, stared at it very doubtfully, and then looked up. "Well!" said Mr Limpney. "Where did they meet?" "Peterborough, sir." "Where!" cried Mr Limpney in astonishment. "Peterborough, sir."
So the prince lost his case on the last appeal and the beginning of de Barral's end became manifest to the public in the shape of a half-sheet of note paper watered by the four corners on the closed door of The Orb offices notifying that payment was stopped at that establishment. Its consort The Sceptre collapsed within the week.
I hadn't a thing in the world to answer the note upon but a half-sheet of letter paper." Fleda's lips sought Rolf's forehead again, with a curious rush of tears and smiles at once. Perhaps Marion had caught the expression of her countenance, for she added, with a little energy
Leslie was waiting impatiently for us. "What do you make of that, Professor Kennedy?" The coroner spread out on the table before us a folded half-sheet of typewriting and searched Craig's face eagerly to see what impression it made on him. "We found it stuffed in Maitland's outside coat pocket," he explained.
Envelopes, however, were always mysterious and exciting. His name was scribbled on this one in Tara's hand; and as Esther retreated he opened it, wondering.... It contained a half-sheet of note-paper, and between the folds lay a circle of narrow blue ribbon plaited in three strands. But only two of the strands were ribbon; the third was a tress of her gleaming hair.
I take notice of it the more, because it seems to have been his favourite composition It is upon mortality; and is tied length-ways and cross-ways with a yarn thrum, and then rolled up and twisted round with a half-sheet of dirty blue paper, which seems to have been once the cast cover of a general review, which to this day smells horribly of horse drugs.
"This is very clever," he mused, hesitating for a moment before opening it. "I wired for rooms only a few hours ago and I find a letter. It is the commencement." He tore open the envelope, and drew out a single half-sheet of note-paper. Across it was scrawled a single sentence only. "Go back to Lenox." There was no signature, nor any date.
Even she could not go on living in any peace at all, believing that he had indeed been flung headlong into hell. Of this gnawing solicitude she never spoke to me, never, and for her diary also she could find no phrases. But on a loose half-sheet of notepaper between its pages I find this passage that follows, written very carefully. I do not know whose lines they are nor how she came upon them.
"She's been buying it for the child and never using it." His eyes glistened. "The very thing," he thought, and then he took down pen and paper to write something to go with it. This is what he wrote "For lil Katerin from her Luvin mother" Then he held it at arm's length and looked at it. The subscription crossed the whole face of a half-sheet of paper.
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