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She could see the print of the other shoe yes! and there was the impress of the stockinged foot in the mud. "Whoever she may be," thought Ruth Fielding, "she is so frightened that she abandoned this shoe. Poor thing! What can be the matter with her?" Ruth shouted again, and yet again. She went on up the side of the turbulent brook, staring all about for the hiding place of her quarry.
"Yes, I see ah! here is one of them," said Mr Sharp, drawing an old shoe out of a corner; "you don't require to look for the other, I've got it here," he added, drawing its fellow from his pocket. Jones stood aghast. "Look here, Jones," said Mr Sharp, gazing sternly into the culprit's face, "you needn't trouble yourself to deny the theft.
Others of the party were more interested in pointing out once more, in the confusion of footprints before the building, the imprint of the same narrow shoe.
Lord Emsworth interposed. "You must have made a mistake, my dear Baxter. There is certainly no trace of paint on this shoe. These momentary optical delusions are, I fancy, not uncommon. Any doctor will tell you " "I had an aunt, your lordship," said Ashe chattily, "who was remarkably subject " "It is absurd! I cannot have been mistaken," said Baxter.
We halted near the upper spring at 8.20 a.m., after the usual accident which now occurred daily about that hour. On this occasion Lieutenant Yusuf's shoe stuck in the stirrup when he was dismounting from an unsteady mule; the animal threw him, and he had a somewhat narrow escape from being dragged to death.
"Truly there can be no harm in looking at this," she thought, and turning it to the light she stepped back to examine it. 'Twas the picture of a black-eyed, black-haired child a little girl, scarcely three years old, judging from the baby face, and the fat, dimpled hands turning so earnestly the leaves of a picture book. One tiny foot was bare, and one encased in a red morocco shoe.
Her heart beat with happiness, as the golden shoe landed her safely on the beach; and she ran up through the little gate into the Castle gardens, right into the arms of her mother, who was pacing up and down with her attendants, in great anxiety.
Our naked footprints are clear enough to them, but I'll bet my soul they've never seen an impression made by a shoe. They are your and my footprints, you know, with and without shoes." "Mine? Why, Hugh Ridgeway, I never oh, I never thought!" she exclaimed, deeply embarrassed after her first expression of wonder and incredulity.
His master indeed did not at first observe it; for he was sitting with one shoe buckled, delineating portraits in the fire. "I have brushed those clothes, sir, as you ordered me." Harley nodded his head but Peter observed that his hat wanted brushing too: his master nodded again.
Here, shameless ruffians sought employment as hired witnesses, and walked openly in the Hall with a straw in the shoe to denote their quality; and here the good, the great, the brave, the wise, and the abandoned have been brought to trial.
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