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Only, if you could be so good as to see her?" "Who is she?" "All I know about it is this: she is a Mrs. Harvey. She and her husband and children were to sail yesterday for Boston. All were on board except the husband; and he, on leaving the large hotel over the way, was taken up for a robbery.
"You bought it to make your getaway after the robbery," retorted Macdonald. "It's a difference of opinion makes horse-races. What else have you got against us?" "We found in your room one of the sacks that had held the gold you took from the bank." "That's right. I took it from the bank in the afternoon, where I had had it on deposit, to pay for the team I bought. Milton's books will show that.
Joey, is not there your own broder's uncle lying in the jail of at this present time for the murder of a woman?" "Well," replied Joe, "and if he was so unfortunate to be put up, which was not asy done neither, is it not better and more creditabler to lie in a jail for a murder than a robbery, I ask you?"
"Why don't you use all your fingers on your machine?" asked Jack, before Dick could answer. "What's that?" snapped the editor quickly, fixing his eyes on the questioner. "Why don't I use all my fingers? Because it's quicker to use two, that's why." "Oh, no it is not," with a quiet smile. "Let me show you. What is this? Something about the robbery? Let me add a few lines. It is news."
'I have met a very intelligent man just left Cadiz, and have seen and conversed with some of the Spanish Constitutionalists. Spain is in a dreadful state; anarchy, confusion, highway robbery and assassination daily take place. The game is up, if France has got and will keep military possession of Cadiz.
"I have had you brought to me," he said, "in order that I might learn from your own lips whether you are the perpetrators of this base robbery and vile insult to myself. I ask each of you, are you guilty of committing or assisting to commit this villainous insult on myself?"
If he signifies his approval of a robbery, it is made; otherwise, not though it is said that the men have a way of tampering with the verdict so as to make the god favor the enterprise in the great majority of cases."
How he ever consented to become a servant is more than I can make out." "Has it never occurred to you," asked Ned, "that he might have had an object, besides that of salary, in acting the part of a menial?" "I have thought, since the night of the robbery, that he might have scented the necklace from afar off and come there to get it." "Your father found him on the Isthmus?"
"I grant it; but if I am apprehended, and to be hung for robbery?" "It will be no longer an object to you, to care for my safety. Assuredly, I comprehend this. But my interest induces me to wish that you be removed from the peril of apprehension, and your interest replies, that if you can obtain equal advantages in security, you would forego advantages accompanied by peril.
Poor-rate, town-rate, income-tax, are nothing less than wholesale robbery, and is it any wonder that some of the people who are thus oppressed should be driven to desperation? It is deplorable to learn that they should have had any cause to commit what are called "agrarian" crimes.
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