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This quiet waiting resulted, as might have been expected, in the little fellow making up for the night's wakefulness, and soon he was sound asleep, his pretty head resting on his violets. For several hours tired little Maurice slept. When at last he opened his eyes, a man was sitting by his side.
I know what it means when you get an idea in your old noddle, so please remember that I don't want any of that bunch from down below up here, and I don't want any doctor. See? You're not going to pull any of that stuff on me, are you? Just let me get a night's sleep and I'll be all right. I'm not on exhibition.
And so we chatted on, We had been horrified to encounter in a single night's work some thirty little girls playing about the rooms of brothels. That at least would never be allowed. We were so glad the law was so very strict, and we had been assured strictly enforced at that point.
He all but hastened after her, to apologise; but the irritable impulse overcame him again, and he had to pace the room till his nerves grew steady. Very soon after it was dark he gave up the effort to read, and went to bed. A good night's sleep restored him. He rose with the sun, felt the old appetite for work, and when the breakfast bell rang had redeemed more than three good hours.
The sea being calm, and no movement on deck, it was pretty generally remarked in the morning that the bell awakened the greater number on board from their first sleep; and though this observation was not altogether applicable to the writer himself, yet he was not a little pleased to find that thirty people could all at once become so reconciled to a night's quarters within a few hundred paces of the Bell Rock.
But ever and again during the night's expedition his ears would pick out from the tumult of the ways the peculiar hooting of the organ of Boss Ostrog, "Galloop, Galloop!" or the shrill "Yahaha, Yaha Yap! Hear a live paper yelp!" of its chief rival. Repeated, too, everywhere, were such crèches as the one he now entered.
Then we had better go down, for it is a little past the hour." I picked up my hat and my heaviest stick, but I observed that Holmes took his revolver from his drawer and slipped it into his pocket. It was clear that he thought that our night's work might be a serious one. Miss Morstan was muffled in a dark cloak, and her sensitive face was composed, but pale.
She stood for an instant then turned slowly away and walked over to a mirror had her night's vigil made her look wan and sallow? she wondered. No she looked much as usual a thought paler, perhaps, but it is appropriate for brides to look pale. No use thinking of a morning nap under the circumstances she would sit down by the window and wait for them to come.
Ussher received her beloved Christine with open arms; Riatt went noncommittally upstairs to take a bath; Hickson had decided, in spite of his depression of spirits, to try to make up a little of last night's lost sleep, when he received a summons from his sister.
If no will turns up, Joe's estate is legally mine, but I shall see that Florence is amply provided for." He spoke with a proud dignity, and I was rather sorry I had caught him up so sharply. I went back to the inn, and, after vainly racking my brain over it all for a time, I turned in, but to a miserably broken night's rest. The next morning I received information from headquarters.
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