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"Say," he said, "say, can I tell my wife what you've told me?" "Y-e-s," nodded the Youngish Girl soberly. "And say," said the Traveling Salesman, "say, I don't exactly like to go off this way and never know at all how it all came out." Casually his eyes fell on the big lynx muff in the Youngish Girl's hand.
"It was merely a flitting thought," she responded, her repose still shaken; "it was purely out of absent-mindedness that I came so near to voicing it. It was nothing, believe me. There it is gone!" "Which is to be deplored," I soberly returned. "I attach considerable importance to your thoughts. Besides, you opened this conversation with an assurance of frankness.
"I found some clothes not the sort I can go out in!" she said, laughing at his astonishment, as she unlocked the grille. "So, please, overlook my attire; I was so full of coal dust! and I found sufficient Apollinaris for my necessities.... What did they say at Sandcrest?" He said very soberly: "We've got to discuss this situation. Perhaps I had better come in for a few minutes if you don't mind."
When the games were over and the children sat about soberly, eating their ice-cream and cake, she looked over her shoulder into the big empty room and shivered. The children went away and she and Miss Molly put out the lights in silence.
But something external will stand in the way. Nothing will stand in the way of thy acting justly and soberly and considerately. But perhaps some other active power will be hindered.
Her eyes opened widely in sudden surprise and she clasped and unclasped her hands nervously. "Do you really not know? Have you never been told what happened?" "Only that I was roughly forbidden to speak, called every foul name the learned Judge could think of, and then sentenced to twenty years penal servitude beyond seas," I answered soberly.
"Tell me," she commanded. "We have fought it out, and I've had my beating," he said soberly. "When I thought I had him fairly down, he was actually begging me to stay on with the company, we got tangled up again over North, and he fired me bodily." "Did you did you tell him about our " "Yes; and that was what set off the final fireworks."
Plainly it was, now or never, the high tide of his affairs; and he drew the door as close as he durst, slipped a pebble in the chink, and made off downhill to find a cab. Half-way down a gate opened, and a troop of Christmas children sallied forth in the most cheerful humour, followed more soberly by a smiling mother.
I was dropped in Kennisburg to attend to the legal formalities respecting Radnor's release, while Terry appropriated the horses and drove to Mathers Hall. His last word to Mattison and me was not to let a whisper reach Radnor's ear as to the outcome of the investigation. He wanted a spectacular dénouement. The sheriff assented very soberly.
You don't mean to tell me you don't know a detective that wears the same badge you do?" "Yes, sir, I do," said Riley soberly. "And I'll tell yez why. That man these boys met this morning is no detective at all." Mr. Cook and the two boys were so completely taken aback by the sergeant's statement that for a moment all they could do was stare at one another in amazement.
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