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Betty seized the package; it consisted of a half-sheet of paper which inclosed a letter, doubled over and sealed with wax in the fashion of the day. "I am safely across the river," wrote Oliver on the outer sheet, "and send this to ease your mind and Kitty's. Moppet's letter came to me inside one from my father by private hand a few days since, on chance of my being able to give it you.
The Squire stood erect a moment; crumpled in his hand a half-sheet of paper on which young Munsey had been making some calculations, and flung it into the fire. Augustina sat cowering. The young man himself turned white, bowed, and said nothing. While Father Bowles, of course, like the old tabby that he was, had at once begun to purr conciliation.
"Then you could not possibly say one way or another, if those rings were taken out of that tray?" "No!" "The fact is that all those rings the two on the half-sheet of notepaper, and twenty-seven on the tray are all of the same class as regards age and style all very much of a muchness?" "Yes," admitted Zillah.
The doors were locked, and Miss Nevill, who had brought some memoranda with her scribbled on a half-sheet of letter paper, was told by the duke to take her stand on the hearth rug and give him a specimen of her powers by declaiming what she proposed to say, he himself being seated on a sofa watching her. "Now," he said, "begin."
There was a chance, of course, that he might not notice her; and Billy was counting on that chance until a gust of wind whirled a loose half-sheet of newspaper from the hands of the man in front of her, and naturally attracted Bertram's eyes to its vicinity and to hers. The next moment he was at her side and his dumfounded but softly-breathed "Billy!" was in her ears.
Even now, though tamed by age, I see him casting wistful glances at his daughters when they send a whole inside of a half-sheet of note paper, with the three lines of acceptance to an invitation, written on only one of the sides. I am not above owning that I have this human weakness myself. String is my foible.
But my business can very well wait till next week. Now I think I have everything." He gathered up a new Guide-Chaix that Maxwell had put into his hand, saw that the half-sheet of notes was safely stowed into his pocket-book, and took up his hat and stick. As he spoke, Maxwell had remembered the situation and Mrs. Allison's remark.
This he folded and put in his pocket; but the ink had gone through to the next half-sheet, and this he also separated, treating it as he did the first. This left two half-sheets, with the possibility of their slipping about and away from the rest.
Mortimer was no doubt already stopping there?" "No, I had been staying with a friend," said the doctor. "There was no possible indication that we intended to go to this hotel." "Hum! Someone seems to be very deeply interested in your movements." Out of the envelope he took a half-sheet of foolscap paper folded into four. This he opened and spread flat upon the table.
You have chosen the roughest road, but it goes straight to the hill-tops. He handed me the half-sheet of note-paper. On it were written three words 'Kasredin', 'cancer', and 'v. 'That is the only clue we possess, he said. 'I cannot construe it, but I can tell you the story. We have had our agents working in Persia and Mesopotamia for years mostly young officers of the Indian Army.
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