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"Pinkerton, I should like to have a talk with you and Easton and two or three others Skinner, and Mossop, and Templer yes, and Scudamore." "Just as you like, Clinton.
A man must have been an unsuccessful artist; he must have starved on the streets of Paris; he must have been yoked to a commercial force like Pinkerton, before he can conceive the longings that at times assailed me.
'What does she do after she gets dressed in her rows of old lettuce I mean her old rows of lettuce? asked Polly. 'Do? Why really, Polly, you are too stupid! What do you suppose she did? What everybody else does, of course. 'Oh! said Polly, apologetically. 'How old is Mrs. Pinkerton? asked Margery. 'Between nineteen and twenty.
Old Briggs has therefore a new typewriting machine on his hands, and so I was going to propose to you that you take the place of the Chicago Pinkerton person. Briggs has become so disgusted with all these detective women that he abandoned the idea of sending a female detective with the machine, and doesn't imagine that whoever is sent will be either a detective or a newspaper woman.
It was a subject often and earnestly debated by myself and Pinkerton. In his opinion I should instantly discard my profession. "Just drop it, here and now," he would say. "Come back home with me, and let's throw our whole soul into business. I have the capital; you bring the culture.
"Let me go then," I concluded; "not as a deserter, but as the vanguard, to lead the march of the Pinkerton men." "I have been looking for this, Loudon," said he, when I had done. "It does pain me, and that's the fact I'm so miserably selfish.
Even Miss Pinkerton, that austere and godlike woman, ceased scolding her after the first time, and though she no more comprehended sensibility than she did Algebra, gave all masters and teachers particular orders to treat Miss Sedley with the utmost gentleness, as harsh treatment was injurious to her.
Suspicion of Foul Play. It was about how Hobart's sudden death had never been adequately investigated, and how curious and suspicious circumstances had of late been discovered in connection with it, and inquiries were being pursued, and the Haste, which was naturally specially interested, hoped to give more news very soon. So old Pinkerton was making a journalistic scoop of it.
Only you must see that it will make family life extremely awkward. Of course it would. But family lives nearly always are awkward, Jane thought; it is one of the things about them. Lady Pinkerton added, having suddenly remembered it, 'Besides, my dear, he drinks; you told me so yourself. Jane said, if she had, she had lied, doubtless for some good reason now forgotten by her.
There were 1,066 volunteer workers in San Francisco, 118 of them men. On election day hundreds reported for duty before 6 o'clock and after standing at the polls twelve hours many went into the booths and kept tally of the count until midnight. In Oakland Pinkerton men were hired to watch it and in San Francisco the vault where the ballots were deposited was watched for two days and nights.
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