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He wouldn't swipe a million dollars let alone a rotten, measly fifty thousand!" "Charlie Manton! What kind of talk is that? You ought to be ashamed!" "Well, I ain't so there! And I'm Bill's friend, and I ain't afraid to say so, either. You do love Bill and you know it! You can claim you hate him till you're black in the face, but you can't fool me!
Indeed, as Millard told it, I could easily account for the temptation of Stella. To a degree, I suppose, it was really her fault, for she ought to have known the game, shown more sense than to be taken in by the thing. I wondered at the continued relations of Millard with Manton, under the circumstances.
"There is one thing you can do for me," he hurried on, "and and I beg you not to refuse. The mantón that belonged to La Clavel! I described it to Pilar, and she is mad to wear it to the danzón at the Tacon Theatre. You see, it was embroidered by the Chinese, and it is appropriate for her. Think of Pilar in that shawl, Charles." "She can't have it," he answered shortly.
Perrin, the footman, returning, as late as twenty minutes to eleven, from his tobacco promenade along the terrace, reported to Manton 'a row in town'; and he repeated to Nesta the policeman's opinion and his own of the 'Army' fellows, and the way to treat them. Both were for rigour. 'The name of "Army" attracts poor Skepsey so, I am sure he would join it, if they would admit him, Nesta said.
Monotonous work, but swiftly done, a filling up of many of the hours of his life which were near at hand. He sat down, took a packet of his printed engagement forms, and a pen, put them before him, then opened one of the letters: "4, Manton Street, Mayfair, Jan. 2. "Dear Doctor Isaacson: "My health," etc., etc. He opened another: "200, Park Lane, Jan.
Had he waited another minute, he would have marked a fresh actor appear at Manton Corner, would have witnessed the dénouement of the scene, and had that to tell when he descended, which must have allayed in a degree, not only the general alarm, but Sir George's private apprehensions. It is when the mind is braced to meet a known emergency that it falls the easiest prey to the unexpected.
"Does this door lead through to the other vaults, Mr. Manton?" "Yes." The promoter straightened, after replacing the records of the negative. "I designed this system of storage myself and superintended every detail of construction. It is " He checked himself with an exclamation, noticing that the door was open. With a flush of anger he slammed it shut.
Miss Rosie Travilla, Miss Evelyn Leland, and Miss Raymond, the Viamede carriage has been in waiting for the last half-hour." The speaker was no other than Mrs. Manton, who had entered unperceived by them in their excitement. No one replied to her rebuke, but there was a sudden scurrying into the cloak-room, followed by a hasty donning of hats and wraps.
"Wouldn't it have been easier and cheaper in the long run to reproduce it in the studio?" Manton glanced up at Kennedy, echoing my thought. Had Kennedy, after all, some knowledge of motion pictures stored away with his vast fund of general and unusual information? "Yes," replied the producer.
I took down the gun, saying, "Jacob, you have no chance; there is but one charge of buck-shot in the house." "One chance is better nor none," said Jacob, as he commenced loading the gun. "Who knows what may happen to oie. Mayhap oie may chance to kill 'un; and you and the measter and the wee bairns may have zummut zavory for zupper yet." Away walked Jacob with Hoodie's "Manton" over his shoulder.
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