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It is strange that Addison should, in the first line of his travels, have misdated his departure from Marseilles by a whole year, and still more strange that this slip of the pen which throws the whole narrative into inextricable confusion, should have been repeated in a succession of editions, and never detected by Tickell or by Hurd. Nos. 26, 329, 69, 317, 159, 343, 517.
"The first is your order for rewriting the schedule on the traction properties. We'll take up the second when we've finished that." John M. Hurd gave a half hitch in his chair, and turned his face toward the window, the very casement out of which he had gazed on the day when the fate of Mr. Wilkinson's scheme was first decided. Thoughtfully he looked out and down the busy street.
And, taking turns, between bites, as it were, when they were eating supper, Russ and Laddie told of having met Mr. Hurd, who had spoken of the red-haired lumberman working at Mr. Barker's place. "So we went there, and Zip chased his cat," explained Russ. "And we upset, but he was nice and he showed us the ragged coat, only the pockets were full of holes and there weren't any papers."
"And now that we understand one another," said Hurd, putting away his weapon, "I want to talk." "Sha'n't talk," said Jessop, savagely. "Oh, yes, I think so; otherwise I can make things unpleasant for you." "You can't arrest me. I've done nothing." "That may be so, but arrest you I can and I have done so now.
"I hope you will gain the reward yourself, Hurd." The detective nodded. "I hope so too. I have lately married the sweetest little wife in the world, and I want to keep her in the way she has been accustomed to be kept. She married beneath her, as I'm only a thief-catcher, and no very famous one either." "But if you solve this mystery it will do you a lot of good."
Jellison?" said Marcella, taking a wooden stool, the only piece of furniture left in the tiny cottage on which it was possible to sit, and squeezing herself into a corner by the fire, whence she commanded the whole group. "No! don't you turn Mr. Patton out of that chair, Mrs. Hurd, or I shall have to go away." For Mrs.
One of them took the trouble to sing out to us when they went by, "Well, you got a school before us, but we'll be tied up and into the dock and spending our money ashore whilst you're still along the Jersey coast somewhere." And we supposed they would, but Hurd, who was then to our wheel, had to call back to them, "Oh, I dunno. I dunno about that it's a good run to Fulton Market dock yet."
But I shouldn't be surprised to learn that there were circumstances in Aaron Norman's past life which led him to leave his wife, and which may lead Mrs. Krill into buying silence by giving Miss Norman half the income. You could live on two thousand odd a year, eh?" "Not obtained in that way," said Beecot, filling his pipe and passing a match to Hurd.
She saw herself, as the preacher, sitting on her stool beside the poor grate she realised as a spectator the figures of the women and the old man played on by the firelight the white, bare, damp-stained walls of the cottage, and in the background the fragile though still comely form of Minta Hurd, who was standing with her back to the dresser, and her head bent forward, listening to the talk while her fingers twisted the straw she plaited eternally from morning till night, for a wage of about 1s. 3d. a week: Her mind was all aflame with excitement and defiance defiance of her father, Lord Maxwell, Aldous Raeburn.
I met Krill, as he wos then, some twenty-five year back by chance, as you may say" he cast a strange look at the detective, which the latter noted "yes, by chance, Mr. Hurd. I found he kep' the pub here, and this bein' no distance from Southampton I took to runnin' down here when the barkey was at anchor.
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