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If the man isn't in his office, try the county clerk's." Bowers pulled with clock-work precision at his cigar, while the boy uncoiled his long legs from his chair, and with furtive little pats at his necktie and fiery shock, made ready to go out. Shelby stumbled upon the waste-paper basket as the door slammed at his clerk's heels, and with vicious satisfaction he kicked it to the room's far end.
By this time I was wiping my hands and glancing from detail to detail of the room's belongings, as one is apt to do when he is in a new place, where everything he sees is a comfort to his eye and his spirit; and I became conscious, in one of those unaccountable ways, you know, that there was something there somewhere that the man wanted me to discover for myself.
It was very quiet in the room, with the sunshine coming through the window, and a breeze that smelt of the sea. I had not cared to walk lightly or to close the door softly, and yet no voice had challenged my entrance. For a minute I feared to find the dead physician the room's only occupant; then I passed the screen and came upon my enemy.
The subtlety of Ikey's action becomes apparent upon recital of his subsequent move. He sent a messenger for Mr. Riddle and disclosed the plans of Mr. McGowan for eloping with Rosy. Mr. Riddle was a stout man, brick-dusty of complexion and sudden in action. "Much obliged," he said, briefly, to Ikey. "The lazy Irish loafer! My own room's just above Rosy's.
Then something stirred in one of that room's dark corners, and he started, to see that he was not alone, remembering that Cromwell had said he was to have a companion in his last hours. "Who are you?" came a dull voice a voice that was eloquent of misery. "Master Stewart!" he exclaimed, recognizing his companion. "So it was you gave the King your horse at the Saint Martin's Gate!
Don't this feller ever take a drink or play around with any female companions?" "You ain't got the angle straight on Farquaharson," observed the sleuth who had for some time been Farquaharson's shadow. "He ain't that kind. I'm living in the same apartment hotel with him and my room's next door to his. I don't fall for the slush-stuff, Chief, but that feller gets my goat. He's hurt and hurt bad.
"When I feel a certain way, I've got to work off steam, and there's nothing that does it like sweeping." "I beg of you I beg of you to let me close those windows for you!" "All right. I'm awfully hot, but I guess the room's cold. We can have a fire in a minute. Everything's there to make it." "I beg you will not trouble! I shall only remain a moment and leave you to finish."
You are Hilda," he repeated, dully. "Why are you here?" "Won't you ask me in and let me tell you?" "I beg your pardon." He stepped back that she might pass him. "You have surprised me almost out of my senses entirely out of my manners, as you see." He gave her a splint chair one of the two which were the room's complement and stood before her.
And, further, this is known that, as Dignum sat on, pretendin' to yawn and huggin' his black intent, a little sut plopped down the chimney and scattered on the coals of the laid fire beneath. "At that 'Curse this waitin'! said he. 'The room's as chill as a belfry'; and he got to his feet, with a secret grin, and strolled to the hearthstone.
Lamp shades are a part of the scheme of the room's decoration and should be chosen or made to order to achieve the desired effect. Special shades are made by many clever people to harmonize with any room or period and are apt to be far better than the ready made variety.
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