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If the young lady will come to the judge's office with me, I have no doubt we can arrange the matter." Before long it was evident there was a hitch. "I am sorry, Miss Mercer," said Niles, with a long face, "but there seems to be some doubt as to this. You have not the deed with you the deed giving title to this property?" "No," said Eleanor. "But the records are here, are they not?
Ando, the traitor, who spoke Hindustani fluently, acted as interpreter whenever there was a hitch in our conversation. With what I knew of the Tibetan language, and with this man's help, everything was explained as clearly as possible to the Tibetans. Notwithstanding this, they continued to lash mercilessly my poor servant.
For twenty minutes at least the Wasp, still on the wing, tugs at her, tugging again and again, to overcome the cause of the hitch and release the spoil. The hauling-method, a continuation of the flight, comes to nothing; and no other is attempted. At last the insect wearies and leaves the Mantis hanging to the Silene.
Everything seems to have gone without a hitch. The various gifts and purchases made in New Zealand were collected butter, cheese, bacon, hams, some preserved meats, tongues. Meanwhile the huts were erected on the waste ground beyond the harbour works. Everything was overhauled, sorted, and marked afresh to prevent difficulty in the South.
It had a rather amusing hitch about its acceptance. The editor of the paper to which it was offered liked it extremely for its vigourous treatment, but begged her to use a masculine name, or simply initials, because it didn't sound like a young girl's story. She told this over with great gusto, and showed her check for twenty dollars. But Mr.
He would lunch on the train, get to London about two, take a taxi at once to the wise old doctor, catch him over his coffee in a charitable and understanding mood, and perhaps be smoking a cigarette publicly and honourably and altogether satisfyingly before three. So far as Brighton-Pomfrey's door this program was fulfilled without a hitch.
He was the same lazy Kelsey we once saw sitting on the front porch of Mrs. Gray's house, only his hair was longer, his whiskers more tangled and matted, and his clothes worse for wear. "Alight and hitch," was the way in which he welcomed Captain Beardsley and his companion. "Git out, ye whelps!" "Can't stop so long," replied the captain. "Been over to Mrs.
He hoped Hughie wouldn't hear him harnessing Nellie, and shoot at the barn. The possibility sent him to the kitchen stairway. It wound upward in an old-fashioned twist to the room above. "Hughie!" he called in a low voice. "Hughie!" There was a noise of many creaks overhead. "I'm going to hitch up Nellie and drive over to Dr. Cole's farm. I I feel sure he buried the money!"
"Oh, we never could give up Splash," said Bunny, and Sue nodded her head to show that she felt the same way about it. "Maybe you can get another dog, who will bark, Mother. Then we could hitch Splash and him up together and have a team," went on Bunny. "Splash would never pull the way the other dog wanted to go," said Uncle Tad.
One seated himself beside Barebone, the other opposite to him, and each drew down a blind. They seemed to have rehearsed the actions over and over again, so that there was no hitch or noise or bungling. The whole was executed as if by clock-work, and the carriage moved away the instant the doors were closed.
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