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"In the first place, will somebody ascertain for me whether the Countess de la Moray and General Gastang are still staying in the hotel? I feel pretty sure they are gone, but it is just possible that such may not be the case. Let this inquiry be made delicately, please." Inspector Field departed to ask the question himself.
Kelley was appointed the first factory inspector with a deputy and a force of twelve inspectors to enforce the law. Both Mrs. Kelley and her assistant, Mrs. Stevens, lived at Hull-House; the office was on Polk Street directly opposite, and one of the most vigorous deputies was the president of the Jane Club.
That's God's truth, gentlemen, every word of it, and I heard no more about it until that lad came riding up with a note which made me walk in here, like a jay, and give myself into your hands." A cab had driven up whilst the American had been talking. Two uniformed policemen sat inside. Inspector Martin rose and touched his prisoner on the shoulder. "It is time for us to go."
"Yet it was very provoking," cried another, "that he received the only Non in mathematics. Otherwise he would have been called in. Now he will only have to vex himself about his many brilliant characters." "Yes, and he is well versed in mathematics!" added Wilhelm "There was something incorrect in the writing; the inspector was to blame for that, but how I know not.
He found something there, raised a hand to his lips, swallowed something. And in a few seconds, as his eyes grew brighter, he turned a suspicious and sullen glance on the group which stood watching him. "What do you want?" he growled. "Who are you?" "We want some information from you," said the Inspector. "When did you last see your brother, or friend, or whatever he is Chen Li?"
Bella did her best to be polite to Agatha, and Tom offered to get an inspector for the general at the same time as for his father. Then March, remorsefully remembered the Eltwins, and looked about for them, so that his son might get them an inspector too.
"And now, sir, if I might speak to Miss Trevert alone for a minute ..." "I say, though," expostulated Horace, "my sister's awfully upset, you know. Is it absolutely necessary?" "Aye, sir, it is!" said the Inspector. "But there's no need for me to see her in here. Perhaps in some other room ..." "The drawing-room is next to this," the butler put in; "they'd be nice and quiet in there, Sir Horace."
Inspector Humphries, propping his big bulk uneasily against the wall near the door, was the only one who appeared to be oblivious of the strain. The detective walked round the desk and seated himself in the chair. "Mr. Parrish is seated at the desk here," he resumed, "when his attention is directed to the window." And here Mr.
How surprised the member of the board had been, that time, to see everything so clean about the light. What the Inspector had said about Fedderson's being stuck here in a second-class light best keeper on the coast. And so on and so on, till either he or I had to go aloft and have a look at the wicks.
"The first thing to do," said the chief inspector, when they were en route, "is to assure this young lady, whom I take to be Miss Forbes, that she has probably been brought to Eastbourne by a lying telegram, and that her mother is quite well in health. Secondly, why should Wong Li Fu be described as the man wanted in the Innesmore Mansions inquiry; and, thirdly, how does Mr.
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