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There were two old-fashioned writing-tables one looking as if it was never used, and the other looking busy and homelike, with a cabinet full of every conceivable sort of notepaper, trays full of pens, and little candles to be lighted when one desired to affix seals.
"Then you could not possibly say one way or another, if those rings were taken out of that tray?" "No!" "The fact is that all those rings the two on the half-sheet of notepaper, and twenty-seven on the tray are all of the same class as regards age and style all very much of a muchness?" "Yes," admitted Zillah.
On Thursday he contributed one thousand pounds to the Widows' and Orphans' Fund. We liked this liberality, and there was a consensus of opinion that the Colossus was a "wonder." During the day a Despatch Rider brought him a bundle of newspapers, which he rather indiscreetly handed to the Advertiser, to dole out at retail rates on sheets of notepaper.
"You're a pretty good-looking chap yourself, Riley," said Kennedy. "I should think you could jolly a housemaid, if necessary. Anyhow, you can get the fellow on the beat to do it if he isn't already to be found in the kitchen. Why, I see a dozen ways of getting the notepaper." "Oh, it's me that's the lady-killer, sir," grinned Riley. "I'm a regular Blarney stone when I'm out on a job of that sort.
I'll send for M'sieu' Carnac at once, and we'll have you all right pretty quick." But Mrs. Grier forbade Carnac to be sent for, and presently in her bed, declined to have the doctor brought. "It's no use," she said. "A doctor can do no good. I need rest, that's all." Then she asked for notepaper and pen and ink, and so she was left alone.
She paused now when she had written the words: 'To be given to my son at my death; and, screwing up her face into her twisted smile, she said to herself, 'How absurd and melodramatic it sounds! Then she took a sheet of notepaper and began to write. The first few lines flowed easily enough, and then Mrs. Ogilvie's pen traced the letters more slowly on the page.
He fumbled in his pocket, then paused a moment and shot a glance of inquiry at Waldon, who nodded a mute acquiescence to him. "There seem to have been a number of very peculiar disappearances lately," resumed Kennedy, "but this case of Mrs. Edwards is by far the most extraordinary. Of course the Star hasn't had that yet," he concluded, handing me a sheet of notepaper. "Mr.
"What do you think of me above the line, my boy?" The paper was a sheet of the firm's notepaper. In the upper left-hand corner was printed in small type, "The Rev. Sebastian Fortune." Beneath the name was a short line and beneath the line, "Mr. Shearman Twyning. Mr. Mark Sabre": The Rev. Sebastian Fortune. Mr. Shearman Twyning. Mr. Mark Sabre.
When Thatcher appeared, Dan had waited for the hubbub to subside and then he left his seat to shake hands with Bassett's quondam ally. He held meanwhile a bit of notepaper the size of his hand, and scrutinized it carefully from time to time. It contained the precise programme of the convention as arranged by Bassett.
Then give him this note. Did he perhaps know you of old, or did he merely perceive that you were of his country? I know nothing. One does not read the letters entrusted to one for one's friends. Here it is." He handed Peter a folded-up piece of notepaper. Opening it, Peter read, scrawled unsteadily in pencil, "Come and see me to-morrow morning. I shall be alone."
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