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But he realized at least that he had cause to be, and at the present moment it occurred to him that it would be passing sweet to find a flaw in the old Puritan's armour. If the package were harmless his having opened it was still a matter that the discharge of his duty would sanction. Thus he reasoned; and he resolved to break the seal and make himself master of the contents of that letter.
"As I remarked, I can't say just when the papers will arrive. And when they do well, take the best care of them you can." "I wonder how it would do to try another ruse, and hide them, say in a loosely tied package, that looked as if it didn't contain anything more valuable than a pair of old shoes?" "That might answer.
In answer to his vexed inquiries the parcels department of the hotel was equally sure that no box or package consigned to Mr. Goldsborough had been received.
"It got away all right," said another man. "And I don't believe she'll ever get it back. The cat's scared to death." "Why doesn't it jump?" asked some one. "I heard that cats always land on their feet, no matter how far they fall." "A fall from there would kill any cat," said Joe, as he handed Helen a small package he had been carrying a purchase he had made at one of the stores.
"Wasn't much of these fancy trimmin's when I settled into double harness, but lots of things has changed since then. You'll be out soon?" "Just as soon as business will stand for it. Not a minute longer." On his return home Y.D., after maintaining an exasperating silence until supper was finished, casually handed the package to his daughter. "Some trinket Transley sent out," he explained.
Picking up his saber, he then cut the bell cord and lashed the fellow's legs to a chair. Then, giving the canvas package a closer glance of inspection, Hardwicke pressed the edge of his tulwar to Jack Blunt's throat, when he had closed the window, half raised, and shut the shutter so neatly forced with a jimmy.
When they saw how pretty the flowers looked on the table they exclaimed: "Oh, how nice!" "Where is Splash?" asked Sadie. "I've brought him a bone," and so she had, all wrapped in waxed paper from the inside of a cracker package, and on the bone, just as she had promised, was a pink ribbon. "Here, Splash! Splash!" called Bunny, who had given up trying to make his pet pull the express wagon.
Gordon took the package of mail the postmaster handed him and thrust it into his coat pocket. "The old car is outside," he assured his niece. "Let's go out and begin to get acquainted again." Betty, beyond a radiant smile and a furtive hug, had said nothing, and when Mr. Gordon saw her in the sunlight he scrutinized her sharply.
"Well, first, no human being could find his way down to the coast in this tempest; second but, by-the-way, let me explain something in those papers while I think of it." He spoke casually and stepped forward, reaching for the package, which she was about to give up, when something prompted her to snatch it behind her back; and it was well she did, for his hand was but a few inches away.
The same man that brought a little package for you the night we came home. I suppose he comes from your part of the state out West, for he seemed to know you and Bug. He asked me if Bug ever played along the river and if he was a shy child. He was a strange-looking man, and I thought he had the cruelest face I ever saw, but I am no expert on strange faces." Victor did not wait for another word.
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