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"Haven't you seen the newspapers?" demanded Mr. Sigsbee, bending over the occupant of the chair in what that individual mistook for a menacing attitude. "I I didn't have time to look at the paper," mumbled Mr. Bingle. "My wife was so miserable that " "Well, by Jove!" exclaimed Mr.
Can't you... Oh, really? Well, in that case just hold on, will you? He placed the receiver before Sir James. 'It's Calvin Bunner, Sigsbee Manderson's right-hand man, he said concisely. 'He insists on speaking to you personally. Says it is the gravest piece of news. He is talking from the house down by Bishopsbridge, so it will be necessary to speak clearly.
At least, Frederick Tupper knows that it was taken from the pawn shop by a Hudson Bay trapper, and it is believed that Sigsbee possesses the same information." "Of course, they both know about it," agreed Sandy. "Now, why shouldn't they both send people up here in quest of the Little Brass God?" Will continued.
'It is probably in cipher, said Sigsbee. 'I wouldn't understand it. Play on, old man. You've only a few more holes to win. Gossett turned and addressed his ball again. Then he swung. The club tipped the ball, and it rolled sluggishly for a couple of feet. Archibald approached the tee. Now there were moments when Archibald could drive quite decently.
One simply had to face it. Having laid these plans, he caught the train on the Thursday morning with the consoling feeling that, however sadly the morning might begin, it was bound to end well. The day was fine, the sun warm, but tempered with a light breeze. One or two of the club had come to watch the match, among them Sigsbee. Sigsbee drew Gossett aside.
Bingle," said Sigsbee, settling back in his chair and linking his plump hands benevolently across his expansive and somewhat overhanging waistcoat. "That is the best part of the story, sir." Mr. Bingle went home in a taxi-cab, completely done up.
Finally, when Archibald's twenty-first stroke sent the ball trickling into the hole, Gossett had played his thirtieth. The ball had hardly rested on the bottom of the hole before Gossett had begun to tear the telegrams from their envelopes. As he read, his eyes bulged in their sockets. 'Not bad news, I hope, said a sympathetic bystander. Sigsbee took the sheaf of telegrams.
It was a page torn out of an order book, and it read: "Sigsbee may have light diet; Rosenfeld massage." Underneath was written, very small: "You are the most beautiful person in the world." Two reasons had prompted Wilson to request to have Sidney in the operating-room.
They were satisfied now that Pierre had never had possession of it, that he had been despatched as one familiar with the woods and the ways of Antoine, in the Sigsbee interests to secure it from the man who had purchased it at the pawn shop. Everything pointed, as has been stated, to Antoine's being the man who had taken it out of Chicago.
At eight o’clock in the evening the Minneapolis followed, and Captain Sigsbee of the St. Paul received orders to get under way at midnight. May 14. Eleven steamers, chartered by the government as troop-ships, sailed from New York for Key West. At San Francisco, the cruiser Charleston, with supplies and reinforcements for Admiral Dewey’s fleet at Manila, had been made ready for sea.
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