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An automobile had just drawn up at the jeweler's door and General Siddall top-hat, sable-lined overcoat, waxed mustache and imperial, high-heeled boots, gold-mounted cane was descending. And she knew that he had awakened to his one oversight, and was on his way to repair it.
It was uneventful and unproductive save as to the latter end of it, when, on the arrival of the train at Wickford, observing that the prosperous-looking gentleman bound for Boston who occupied the seat next mine in the Pullman car was sleeping soundly, I exchanged my well-worn covert coat for his richly made, sable-lined surtout, and made off as well with his suit-case on the chance of its holding something that might later serve some one of my many purposes.
How Macartney said the wolves had howled around the shack till their noise drove Dudley distracted, and he had slipped out after them unnoticed, with a gun; that Macartney, the two girls and half the men had gone to look for him, when he never returned, till Paulette found his wolf-doped cap torn up by the Caraquet road, and Marcia found him, in the bush unrecognizable but for what rags of his sable-lined coat were left on his body.
On another was a pile of books and magazines, opposite to him a sable-lined coat, by his side a luncheon basket and long hunting flask. Then his eyes were caught by an oblong strip of paper pasted across the carriage window he read it backwards "Engaged." What an intrusion! He looked towards the woman with stammering words of apology upon his lips but the words died away. He was tongue-tied.
Barclay suddenly thrust out his big pock-marked face. "The thing couldn't have happened by itself. Some burlesque angel put it over when the Old Man wasn't looking. Spread out on the tapestry cushions of that limousine was Nute Hardman! "There they were side by side. Not six feet apart; Old Nute in a sable-lined coat and Charlie in his hand-me-down, at a pound, three and six."
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