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While you were gone I 'phoned Uncle Harrison and Aunt Nancy about that debt of my great-aunt who came to me through Viola to-day; they knew nothing about it, but they set to work looking over her old papers, and found that there was a sealed letter addressed to a doctor in Michigan, and in the letter was a check made out to him and which she intended to send him. Now, what do you think of that?"
"Are you there?" came the calm accents of the Assistant Commissioner. "Yes, sir," said Winter. "Any progress?" "A little. Oddly enough, you are in the nick of time to help materially. Will you ring off, and find out from the exchange who 'phoned here two minutes ago? I don't mean Fenley's Bank, which is just trying to get through. I want to know who made the preceding call, which was effective."
He phoned the gendarmes in the city of Ypres and in less than half-an-hour they came. They entered the farmhouse and searched it thoroughly.
She flopped over when I spoke to her and pointed to Dad's room. There I found him lying on the couch, drugged with chloroform." "They placed him on the couch, did they?" "Oh, no, sir, the thieves didn't take that trouble. Pedro was there before I entered the room, and it was he that did that. He had 'phoned for the doctor, too, before I got into the room." "He was chasing the thieves?" asked Ned.
Death, as often as he had seen it, and in its most tragic phases, had not made him callous, and he had liked Forrester but suicide was not a man's way out, it was the way a coward took, and if it brought pity, it was the pity that was blunted with the sterner, almost contemptuous note of disapproval. What had happened since Forrester had 'phoned, that had driven the man to this extremity?
A minute later she heard the curtains part at the end of the dim room, and glanced up with a smile, to face, not Jeannette Willard, but Hal Surtaine. "You 'phoned for me, Lady Jinny," he began: and then, with a start, "Esmé! I I didn't expect to find you here." "Nor I to see you," she said, with a calmness that belied her beating heart. "Sit down, please. I have something to tell you.
These three had put up six thousand dollars, and turned it over to their secret service agents, with instructions that Carpenter's agitations in Western City were to be ended inside of twenty-four hours. A plan had been worked out, every detail of which had been phoned to Old Joe.
Called in a detective agency, and gave me three operatives to work under me. Got the chief on the wire, and made him give me a free hand. Then I had a cinch." He paused, listening, but all remained quiet without, and he resumed his story. "There is not much else to it, West. A little after one o'clock the shadow phoned in from the Union depot that Hobart had just purchased two tickets for Patacne.
They talked for a little while on street-railway and corporation matters. Hand wanted to know something concerning West Chicago land a region adjoining Ravenswood. Cowperwood gave him his best advice. The next day he 'phoned, and the stocks, so Hand informed him, were available. He would send a check over.
He was still nervous and irritable, but no longer threatened self-destruction, and seemed, for some unexplained reason, more hopeful and less desperate. Sylvester had 'phoned, saying that he would call at the apartment at two, and since Stephen had received the message he had been in a state of suppressed excitement, scarcely keeping still for five minutes at a time.
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