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Indeed, it is said Tom noticed many prints of cloven feet deeply stamped about the tree, and several handfuls of hair that looked as if they had been plucked from the coarse black shock of the woodsman. Tom knew his wife's prowess by experience. He shrugged his shoulders as he looked at the signs of a fierce clapper-clawing.
"I'm terribly sorry, Miss Knight; but I'll have to send for another car," apologized Merkle. "Is this splendid machine ruined?" He shrugged. "That's the curse of these roads. Somebody is always driving recklessly." Lorelei smiled at memory of the miles they had covered so swiftly; but she saw that he was serious and in a sour temper.
"You've heard the voice, Colmore?" said the agent. I confessed that I had. "And what do YOU think of it?" I shrugged my shoulders, and remarked that it was no business of mine. "Come, come, you are just as curious as any of us. Is it a woman or not?" "It is certainly a woman." "Which room did you hear it from?" "From the turret-room, before the ceiling fell."
The costumer shrugged: "Pardon, in that case I must seek elsewhere." He would have moved on, but Chester asked: "What kind of advice do you want if not legal?" "Literary." The young man smiled: "Why, I'm not literary." "I think yes. You know Ovide Landry? Black man? Secon'-han' books, Chartres Street, just yonder?" "Yes, very pleasantly, for I love old books."
We made all the inquiries and investigations we could think of, but we learned absolutely nothing. But that, unfortunately, is the worst of it. Hilliard is disgusted with our failure and appears determined to tell the police." "Oh!" cried the girl with an impatient gesture. "Why can't he let it alone? It's not his business." Merriman shrugged his shoulders. "That's what he said at all events.
It lay scattered in splintered shards upon the grass. Holmes picked up several of them and examined them carefully. I was convinced from his intent face and his purposeful manner that at last he was upon a clue. "Well?" asked Lestrade. Holmes shrugged his shoulders. "We have a long way to go yet," said he. "And yet and yet well, we have some suggestive facts to act upon.
I could but laugh and insist, with all respect to the woodcutter, such an individual were worth the knowing however unstable his constitution; at which the man shrugged his shoulders and changed the conversation, as though the subject were too trivial to be worth much consideration.
Manning, hastily. "It was her arrangement solely, and I hold it sacred. She has put upon me a serious responsibility, from which I shrink, indeed, but which I cannot decline. I will do all in my power to carry out the wishes of my late wife." Mr. Ferret shrugged his shoulders. "I am not surprised at your decision, sir," he said, coldly. "Few men would resist the temptation.
Railroading you? I don't believe you know where you are going." He shrugged wearily. "No; you're right. And I don't much care." "Why didn't you send for me?" she demanded. "That night when they got you I told you I had a pull... I'm not a Hilmer, but I can work a few people myself... I haven't always been a cheap skate. There was a time when I had them fighting over me.
Why, if she goes Say, why IS she taggin' along, anyhow?" demanded Susan wrathfully. "Well, I shouldn't exactly call it 'taggin' along' to go home with her father for the Christmas vacation," shrugged the man. "As I understand it, Dorothy's mother died several years ago. That's why the girl is here in the East so much with her relatives, going to school.
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