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Redstone carried in his hand a little pad of cotton wool. He bore it over to the fireplace and unwrapping the lint showed a twisted fragment of lead lying on the bloodstained dressing. "Straight through the heart and lodged in the spine," he said. "Death was absolutely instantaneous." The detective picked up the bullet and scrutinized it closely.
"There's the word I love!" and he scribbled in his pad. "What in creation ails you?" I inquired. "It's the most commonplace expression in the English language." "Better and better!" chuckled Pinkerton. "The unconsciousness of genius. Lord, but this is coming in beautiful!" and he scribbled again. "If you're going to be fulsome," said I, "I'll close the place of entertainment."
And the desk itself a huge spread of cleared surface an enormous blotting pad, an ink well that was indeed a well all just what he had so often longed for as he sat cramped at little desks where an attempt to work meant overflow and chaos of books and papers.
A swing door opened softly and his executive clerk reappeared with a soft tread, unheard by Westerling engaged in mechanically blackening the tens. The clerk, pausing as he waited for a signal of recognition, observed the process wonderingly. To be absently making figures on a pad was not characteristic of the vice-chief of staff.
Mysterious appearance of natives when an animal is killed. Fastening dead tigers to the pad. Present mode wants improving. Incident illustrative of this. Dangerous to go close to wounded tigers. Examples. Footprints of tigers. Call of the tiger. Natives and their powers of description. How to beat successfully for tiger. Description of a beat. Disputes among the shooters. Awarding tigers.
However, two good-quality woolen blankets properly and smoothly folded, a pad made of two ordinary collar-pads sewed parallel by means of canvas strips in such a manner as to lie along both sides of the backbone, a well-fitted saddle, and care in packing will nearly always suffice. I have gone months without having to doctor a single abrasion.
Dey comes here and asks for charity and credit, shust as if a man vas made of monish. Gootness gracious! I don't pelieve dat te peoples who comes here every tay is as pad off as tey vish to appear." "You are mistaken, sir," Mrs. Wentworth replied, "if you think I have come here without being actually in want of the food, I ask you to let me have on credit.
Jake agreed, and picking up the pad thought the top sheet had been hurriedly removed, because a torn fragment projected from the leather clip. The sheet left was covered with faint impressions, but it rather looked as if these had been made by the ink running through than by direct contact. Jake wrote a few words on a scrap of paper and pressing it on the pad noted the difference.
You stoop down and try to track him by scent and the mark of his pad, but all to no purpose; and from that day to this you have never discovered what became of him. "Waken, lords and ladies gay, To the greenwood haste away; We can show you where he lies, Fleet of foot and tall of size." The next morning you are up betimes, for the hounds meet at the house at nine o'clock.
"He was a good man at first, but he's slipped a cog recently. Sure, send him down the hill. And send that other fellow Hopkins, you said? along with him. By the way, Mr. Hennessy." As he spoke, Forrest drew forth his pad book, tore off the last note scribbled, and crumpled it in his hand. "You've a new horse-shoer in the shop. How does he strike you?" "He's too new to make up my mind yet."
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