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She was little and determined, and, it must be admitted, not quite unaccustomed to that kind of thing. "Will you let me pass?" she said. "There's a policeman at the next turning." "There really is," said one of them. "The Dook has another engagement. Dream of me, Olivia!"
On the collapse of that prince's power he put himself to death. The government may have succeeded in its immediate object of proving itself an effective policeman. The sense of order may have been satisfied, and the spirit of turbulence, if it existed, may have been for the moment cowed.
"All right, then," smiled Dick, climbing in, after unhitching, and picking up the reins. "I won't keep you long." With that, and a parting word to the policeman, Dick Prescott drove away. "I saw Hemingway coming, and knew you wouldn't need me," Dave explained with a laugh. "So, to save Bert a double attack of nerves, I slipped off in the darkness, and came here.
But in the morning I had the luck to meet a policeman who directed me to a coffee-tavern in a place called Nobbs Lane you'll not know it, Miss, for it's in a very poor part o' the town where I got a breakfast of as much hot pea-soup and bread as I could eat for three-ha'pence, an' had a good rest beside the fire too. They told me it was kept by a Miss Robinson.
He emptied himself, so to speak, of light; he faded backward, diminishing himself to a luminous glow, to a blur, to a point of light. Thus he was gone. The disappointed crept silently away, each into silence, solitude and the night, and I found myself alone with the policeman. Now, what in the name of God was all this? I asked him, and must have it.
One wonders what the Neanderthal man would have thought of a de luxe 4-room outfit, or complete home, for $198. Even to-day, however, there are many fortunate persons who are never awakened by an alarm-clock that watchman's rattle, as it were, of Policeman Day. The invention is comparatively recent.
Soon two policemen arrived, having been told that a robber had entered the house, but they found nothing excepting Silly Peter on top of the roof, propped against the chimney, waving his flag and signalling to his birds. "He's harmless," said the officer. "I can't make him come down, madam. I'm a policeman, not a fireman."
During the hot night my ears, strained to every sound, had been almost painfully troubled; as though my brain or sensoria were in anxious touch with them. Every breath of the Nurse or the rustle of her dress; every soft pat of slippered feet, as the Policeman went his rounds; every moment of watching life, seemed to be a new impetus to guardianship.
"Just where are we goin', anyhow?" he asked petulantly. "We're going to the Bear's Den," informed the Man-Who-Makes-Faces. "And here's the Zoo now," announced the Policeman. It was unmistakably the Zoo. Gwendolyn recognized the main entrance. For above it, in monster letters formed by electric lights, was a sign, bulbous and blinding Villa Sites Borax Starch Shirts.
She had already made several turns from the warehouse to the marketplace, when Teuzer's apprentice said to her, with a malignant joy which he could ill conceal, "Hark, a policeman is coming to seek you." Madelaine was greatly frightened, she thought of her absence from school, and of what her school-fellow had said to her. "To ask for me?" she stammered, turning pale.
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