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Leave him there take a turn round so's he won't see what you do then get into another taxi, and drive to St. Pancras Church. Get out there and foot it to King's Cross Station. You'll catch the 3.15 for the North easy and after you're once in it, you're all right. Get to Peebles! that's the thing! S'elp me, Mr. Lauriston, it's the only thing!"
Peebles, said he; 'having sat up late last night, and employed much of this morning in wading through these papers, to save Alan some trouble, and I am now about to state the result. 'I will state it myself, said Peter, breaking in without reverence upon his solicitor. 'No, by no means, said my father; 'I am your agent for the time.
About the upper waters of Severn, where Sabrina is still unvexed by pollution, and where the stream is not greater than Tweed at Peebles, sport is fair in spring. Though the Devonshire, and Border, and probably the Welsh waters, are just in their prime, the season is not yet for the Itchen and the Kennet, with their vast over-educated and over-fed monsters of the deep.
They were members of Parliament for Peebles, Stirling, Pittenweem, Kilrenny, and Inverurie. We find them burgesses of Edinburgh; indwellers in Biggar, Perth, and Dalkeith. Thomas was the forester of Newbattle Park, Gavin was a baker, John a maltman, Francis a chirurgeon, and "Schir William" a priest.
They announced that they were bound for Peebles, and drove in that direction till they were clear of the last houses of the town; then, extinguishing the lamps, returned upon their course, and followed a by-road toward Glencorse. There was no sound but that of their own passage, and the incessant, strident pouring of the rain.
"Talking of smoking," he went on, with a soft chuckle, as at recollections of unspeakable devilry, "did I ever tell you chaps of a tremendous scrape I very nearly got into up at the 'Varsity? Well, you must know there's a foolish rule there against smoking in the streets. Not that that made any difference to some of us! Bosher said, 'Let's cut it! and he and Peebles bolted.
My bean always hurts, but to-day I'm near crazy." Harry Baggs surveyed him for a moment, and then, without comment, produced the sum in question. The other turned immediately and rapidly disappeared toward the road. "He's crazy, all right, to fill himself with that dope," Peebles observed; "it's turning him black. You look pretty healthy," he added.
And a far more important thing, mysterious as these two men were, what about the equally mysterious man that was somewhere in the background the murderer? Chisholm and I had no great difficulty indeed, we had nothing that you might call a difficulty in finding out something about the murdered man at Peebles.
'None in the world, if you are wanting to drink to me by name and surname, answered Peebles; 'but, otherwise, I would rather evite your interrogatories. 'Friend, said the Quaker, 'it is not for thine own health, seeing thou hast drunk enough already however here, handmaiden bring me a gill of sherry.
In 1299, at a meeting of the Great Council of Scotland at Peebles, Comyn had attacked Bruce, and they could only be separated by the use of violence. On the 10th February, 1305-6, Bruce and the Comyn met in the church of the convent of the Minorite Friars at Dumfries.
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