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The marriage has been kept secret, and Hardress, finding that an opportunity has arisen of repairing the fallen fortunes of his house by a rich marriage, contemplates repudiating Eily. Eily refuses to part with her 'marriage lines, whereupon Danny Mann, Hardress's faithful henchman, attempts to drown her in the lake.
Cole that he was in his room, his employer having requested that he should make himself scarce when the nephew came, and he tells us how somebody opened the door quietly and flashed an electric torch upon him." "What was Cole doing in the dark?" asked Mann quickly. "He had a headache and was lying down," said the inspector.
The unhappy condition of the little tribe now came to her as in a picture; and, as she saw before her some fifty Indians seated on the ground, her good heart came back to her, and she said, touched by a sense of her own widowhood, "Gretchen, I pity 'em." Mrs. Woods was right. These Indians had come to seek the advice of Mr. Mann in regard to their tribal affairs. Gretchen also was right.
"Do you remember the names of those you met at that club?" Richard thought a moment. "Harrison, Foley, Nichols and Springer, I think. I'm pretty good at remembering names," he returned. Mr. Mann got out his notebook. "Here they are!" he cried. "Andrew S. Foley is one, and Henry Nichols the other." He jammed the volume back into his pocket. "It's as clear as day.
Miss Nightingale says, "There was, at first, no system of registration for general hospitals, for all were burdened with work beyond their strength." Dr. Mann says, that, in the War of 1812, "no sick-records were found in the hospital at Burlington," one of the largest depositories of the sick then in the country. "The hospital-records on the Niagara were under no order."
Maria had a small sum every week for her pocket-money, and a large part of it went to Josephine in the shape of chocolates, of which she was inordinately fond; in fact, Josephine, who came of the poor whites, like Gladys Mann, might have been said to be a chocolate maniac.
The saying is quoted from Horace Mann that if Margaret was unpopular, "it was because she probably inherited the disagreeableness of forty Fullers." Timothy Fuller, Margaret's father, was the oldest of these brothers and, Col. Higginson says, "the most successful and the most assured."
And with tears of indignation in his eyes, Richard left the office. "I'm discharged, Frank." Frank Massanet dropped the books he held in his hands. "Discharged!" he cried. "Surely, Dick, you don't mean it!" "I do," replied Richard. "Mr. Mann has given me my wages for this week, and says he wants me to leave at once." "But how what did he have to say? What did he accuse you of?"
For this there were excellent reasons. The English fleet had been more or less unfortunate since the spring of 1796: Bonaparte's victories, being supplemented by the activity of the French cruisers, had made it difficult for it to remain in the Mediterranean; Corsica was abandoned in September; and in October the squadron of Admiral Mann was literally chased into the Atlantic by the Spaniards.
He didn't come straight to us and ask our assistance, but he had a lot of private detectives nosing round Eastbourne; one of 'em happened to be a cousin of my wife's. So we got to know about it. Cole spent a lot of money trying to trace her, and so did Mr. Minute." Saul Arthur Mann saw a faint gleam of daylight. "Mr. Minute, too?" he asked. "Was he working with Mr. Cole?"
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