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Ain't he bin telling lies by the pint measure? He's been humbugging of us," persisted Basalt. "Let's go and talk reasonable to him, then," said Tiller, "for this must come to an end. Damme, if I don't feel as if I'd been an' done a hanging job at the very least." They went to the hold and found Hunston. The appearance of the wretched stowaway was by this time something dreadful.
The popular author of "Rosamund," etc., who will reopen the old Stanhope cottage near Hunston, New York, and spend the autumn there upon a new novel. Mr. Stanhope's health has not been good of late, and his physicians have recommended an extended stay in this quiet Hudson River country. Here was that "Mr.
I know," he mused, "that you could not have forgotten that hat. Once seen " "Oh!" she exclaimed with sudden evidences of interest "do tell me is the smaller man you mention Mr. Hare?" "He is indeed," he answered surprised. "You know him? Oh, yes, certainly! In Hunston " "Know him!" said she in tones of hardly suppressed indignation.
"Show me your warrant for this outrage," said Hunston. "Outrage! Hoity, toity! that's a good word." "I shall call the police to my assistance if you attempt to molest me," said Hunston, putting on a lofty air. This tickled Pike mightily. "Call the police, will you?" he said.
May you live to repent your evil courses." Hunston turned. Not a word escaped him. The boat pulled off from the vessel, and in the same sullen silence he was landed with his rations.
You're the noblest plotter of them all, Mr. Higginson. Dear old Hunston will not look upon your like again." The two enemies came out into the corridor arm-in-arm, and advanced in utter amity to the doorway.
The third one's feather was of a bright emerald green. Now these feathers were small, but yet, by reason of the conspicuous colours, could be seen at a considerable distance. "What is it you have discovered?" asked the captain. "Out with it, Hunston," said Toro, in his old impatient way.
"Five thousand francs reward," he said to his newly-made comrades generally; "you have only to turn me over to the Harkaways, and you can make a small fortune." "You'll only find good men and true here," said Hunston. Geoffrey Martin turned upon the latter. "All?" There was a hidden significance in his tone which thrilled Hunston.
He will send an ambassador to Hunston unaccredited, of course, a man, young, not married, who don't think me a coxcomb but who might be able to arouse the daughter's interest. This ambassador is to go on Mr. Carstairs's own yacht, the name, of course, being erased, so that the daughter may not recognize it.
The detective was full of hopeful anxiety about the capture of Hunston; and as for the goatherd, it may be presumed that the loss of his goats afforded him plenty of food for silent reflection. They passed the place where Tomaso was captured, and then turned aside out of the road into a dense wood which covered the side of a rocky hill.
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