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Holymead in his address to the jury made out a pretty strong case against him." "No one knows better than Holymead that Hill did not commit the murder," said Crewe. "Hill is an incorrigible liar, but he has no nerve for murder." "Did he put the letters back?" asked Rolfe. "He told me that Mrs. Holymead stole them the day after the murder was discovered. But he is such a liar "
Run as fast as you can!" exclaimed Mr. Rolfe and Mr. Pollard. Mr. Pollard had been hunting for the last half-hour. He knew Nate was deeply interested in "Jimmy's play" and would not have kept away from the tent unless something unusual had happened. Jimmy ran, followed by several men who could not possibly keep up with him.
This done, he whistled a quick tune, and played a slow second to it in perfect harmony; this done, he whistled the second part and played the quick treble a very simple feat, but still ingenious for a boy, and new to his hearer. "Bravo! bravo!" cried Rolfe, with all his heart, Mr. Reginald emerged, radiant with vanity. "You are like me, Mr.
"The lingerie shop in Oxford Street what do you call it Hobson's?" "I'm sure I don't know these ladies' things are a bit out of my line," said Rolfe, rising as he spoke with a smile, in which there was more than a trace of self-satisfaction. He felt that he had acquitted himself with an adroitness which Crewe himself might have envied.
Rolfe had acquired an unwilling respect for Crewe's abilities during the course of the investigations into the Riversbrook case, but he retained all the intolerance which regular members of the detective force feel for the private detectives who poach on their preserves.
The years of trial and error fishing had brought their return in increased knowledge, according to John Rolfe in 1616: About two years since, Sir Thomas Dale ... found out two seasons in the year to catch fish, namely, the spring and the fall. He himself took no small pains in the trial and at one haul with a seine caught five thousand three hundred of them, as big as cod.
'It isn't every woman could have done it, you know, Mr. Rolfe. 'It is not, Harvey assented. Only those rooms were furnished which the little family used, five or six in all; two or three stood vacant, and served as playgrounds for the children in bad weather. Of his relatives at the top, Buncombe never spoke; he either did not know, or viewed with indifference, the fact that Mrs.
The inspector looked up and down the street, wondering what had become of him. At that instant a tall young man, bareheaded and coat-less, came running out of an alley-way, pursued by Rolfe. "Stop him!" cried Rolfe, to his superior officer. Inspector Chippenfield stepped quickly out into the street in front of the fugitive.
The first allusion to the salvation of Captain Smith by Pocahontas occurs in a letter or "little booke" which he wrote to Queen Anne in 1616, about the time of the arrival in England of the Indian Princess, who was then called the Lady Rebecca, and was wife of John Rolfe, by whom she had a son, who accompanied them. Pocahontas had by this time become a person of some importance.
"Memory plays us strange tricks at times," she told him in a clear, slightly raised voice, "and it hath been three years since Master Rolfe and his Indian princess were in London. His memory hath played him false." She took her seat in the great chair which stood in the centre of the room, bathed in the sunlight, and the negress brought a cushion for her feet.
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