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'One of the patent shoes Manderson was wearing that night exactly fits that print; you'll find them, he added, 'on the top shelf in the bedroom, near the window end, the only patents in the row. The girl who polished them in the morning picked them out for me. Trent bent down and studied the faint marks keenly. 'Good! he said. 'You have covered a lot of ground, Murch, I must say.
In Maine the greenbackers elected 32 members of the upper house and 151 members of the lower house and one Congressman, Thompson Murch of Rochland, who was secretary of the National Granite Cutters' Union. However, the bulk of the vote in that State was obviously agricultural.
"As a matter of fact, though, nobody else was ever in danger. There wasn't a shred of evidence against any one. I looked up Murch at the Yard this morning, and he told me he had come round to Bunner's view, that it was a case of revenge on the part of some American black-hand gang. So there's the end of the Manderson case. Holy, suffering Moses!
Trent, with his hands in his pockets and a slight frown on his brow, made no reply to this. 'I tell you what, he said after a short pause, 'I was just getting to the really interesting part of the job when you came in. Come; would you like to see a little bit of high-class police work? It's the very same kind of work that old Murch ought to be doing at this moment.
Murch laughed heartily. Trent's nonsense never made any sort of impression on his mind, but he took it as a mark of esteem, which indeed it was; so it never failed to please him. 'Well, Mr. Trent, he said, 'you're perfectly right. There's no point in denying it, I have got my eye on him.
Sam and Willis Murch had been splitting four-foot logs, when Sam's axe, glancing from a log, had buried the blade in his instep; the very bones were cut. There were four of us boys at work together. We ran to him, tied a handkerchief round his ankle, and twisted it tight with a stick; but blood flowed profusely. We did not know how to apply a tourniquet.
That was excellent about the whisky you made your point finely. I felt inclined to shout 'Encore! It's a thing that I shall have to think over." "I thought you might have fitted it in already," said Mr. Murch. "Come, Mr. Trent, we're only at the beginning of our inquiries, but what do you say to this for a preliminary theory?
"I should think you would have to assess your stock one hundred and fifty dollars a share. Yes, it would take $750,000 to put the Salamander in a position to continue in business with proper resources." "Eliminate that possibility from the discussion," said Mr. Murch, tersely; and O'Connor's last faint hope died.
Murch, who loved a contest, and who only stood to gain by his association with the keen intelligence of the other, entered very heartily into "the game."
Murch's private secretary held a position requiring quick-wittedness and suavity in no common degree. Hardly a day went by that the ring of the phone did not serve as preamble for some such colloquy as this: "Hello. Mr. Murch's office?" "Yes." "Mr. Murch in?" "No. Can I do anything for you?" "The W., T., and G. have called their annual meeting for election of officers on Friday the sixth.
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