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And er if in the course of the interview you should happen to learn her given name er just remember it." "Such as Ella May or Josephine?" "No!" he snaps. "Natalie. Now clear out." Ain't he the foxy old pirate, though? Sendin' me off on a sleuthin' expedition without givin' up a hint as to what it's all about! Was it some back-number romance that this lilac-dipped note had reminded him of?
"Well, couldn't you wait?" says I. "It's only eleven-thirty now, you know." "It is merely a question," says Steele, "of whether or not I shall go at all." "So you hunt me up to do a little private sleuthin' first, eh?" says I. "It is only natural," says he. "I don't know this Mr. er Judson, or what he wants of me."
"Such a joker!" says he. "But listen! Which side do the Tractions people come down on?" "Federated?" says I. "North corridor, just around the corner. Sleuthin' around that bunch, are you? What's doing in Tractions?" "How should I know?" protests Izzy, openin' his eyes innocent. "Maybe I got a customer on the general staff, ain't it?"
"'How did you find him? I said. "He grinned, moving his lip and his loose nose. "'Some luck, Governor, and some sleuthin'. It was like this: I thought you was stringin' me. But I said to myself I'll keep out an eye; maybe it's on the level any damn thing can happen.
Course, after he's pulled that break of tacklin' J. Dudley for a mutiny plotter, Old Hickory shuts down on his sleuthin' around the decks, so he takes it out in gazin' suspicious at the horizon through a pair of field glasses he always wears strapped to him. Don't seem to cheer him up any, either, to have me ask him frivolous questions.
The wireless telegraphy of the eyes, translated through the medium of her own emotions, told her that no matter whose ring Beatrice Whitford was wearing Clay Lindsay held her happiness in the cup of his strong brown hand. "You're shoutin', Miss." Annie rose briskly. "I'll get busy doin' some sleuthin' myself.
The third day Vincent and I had a little skirmish with a mild-eyed young gent who claimed he wanted to see Mr. Ellins urgent, but he turns out to be only a law clerk from the office of our general solicitors bringin' up some private papers to be signed. Then here Friday and it was Friday the 13th, too Vincent comes sleuthin' in to my desk and shows me a card.
At a motion from Ned he advanced toward the machine. Ned thought he had never seen a sadder face on a human being. "Looks like Calamity!" Jimmie muttered "Have you boys got anything to eat?" asked the stranger, rubbing his palms over the waist band of his ill-fitting trousers. "You look like you needed something to eat!" Jimmie put in. "How long you been sleuthin' at us from that rock?"
I had him out on the front steps for fifteen minutes, tryin' to argue some sense into him; but all he wants to do is go jump off the rocks into the Sound and have me tell Aunty he died disgraced but happy. Fin'ly, though, he agrees to wait while I go sleuthin' in and find whether Veronica has rushed in tears to Daddy, or is still curled up on the davenport bitin' the cushions in rage.
To-day, Fibs, I want you to interview that Mrs, Desternay. You can do it better than I, jolly her along, and find out if she's fried or foe of Mrs, Embury." "Yessir. An' kin I do a little sleuthin' on my own?" "What sort?" "Legitermit I do assure you, sir."
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