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He had a passionate sense of being watched tricked. Why were he and she to be made a spectacle for this man and his friends! A mad irrational indignation surged through him. Then she was led in blindfolded, one hand stretched out feeling the air in front of her. The circle of people drew back. Mr. Flaxman and Mr. Denman prepared, note-book in hand, to watch the experiment.
"What is his name?" asked Aunt Madge, looking very much interested, and taking out her note-book and pencil. "What street and number?" "Cyrus Brooks, Number Blank, Blank Street, ma'am. Before the accident, we lived on Thirty-third Street, in very good shape; but, little by little, we were obliged to sell off, and finally had to move into pretty snug quarters.
Elvine and her mother possessed far too much in common ever to have sympathy for one another. It was this very attitude which inspired an acrimonious half hour in the somewhat pretentious parlor on Maple Avenue just before Jeff was to pay his farewell call at the close of the Cattle Week. Elvine was occupied with a small note-book on the| pages of which there were many figures.
Altogether, the half hour was one of very enjoyable excitement; and when, later in the evening, I sat down to my note-book, I started off abruptly in a hortatory vein, "Always take another walk!" In the morning, naturally enough, I again turned my steps toward the chestnut grove.
Like the conductor, he had taken notes of the dead man's belongings, his name, address, clothing and the general circumstances of the crime. Now with his little note-book open before him, he prepared to enjoy the minor sensation of the robbery. "And now for the second victim," he began cheerfully. "What is your name and address, please?" I eyed him with suspicion.
I'll get a home in Denver, and just manage the business from the outside. I can live the way you like to live and do the things you like to have done; Connie, I know I can." Connie reached slowly for her hand-bag. From it she took a tiny note-book and tossed it in the fire. "Literary material," she explained, smiting at him. "I can not write what I have learned in Fort Morgan. I can only live it."
I wouldn't put it past him!" I wrote this, with some other legal expressions in my note-book. "How can I get this money away from him?" said I, coming to the point. "Money!" said he. "How do we know it is money? It may be chattels, goods, wares or merchandise. It may be realty. It may be choses in action. We must require of him a complete discovery.
Come and tell me if you still recognize it," and he took out the little note-book in which was pressed the imperfect and emblematic rose-bud. "Poor little thing!" Ida sighed, looking over his shoulder, "how faded it has become!" By a motion that was almost instantaneous he dropped the note-book and caught her hand.
But it would have taken more than that to wake the Doctor. I put the note-book carefully in a drawer and went on deck to take the wheel. AS soon as I had the Curlew swung round upon her course again I noticed something peculiar: we were not going as fast as we had been. Our favorable wind had almost entirely disappeared.
He next took up my note-book. Now, said I to myself, this is a worse scrape than the other. What a blockhead I am not to have put the book into my pocket; for, except in extreme cases, the traveller's person is never searched. The man opened the thin volume, and found it inscribed with mysterious and strange characters. It was written in short-hand.