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I asked, and Whipple looked bewildered. But Knapp woke up with, "Oh, yes. For years. Studious fellow. No " Knapp spoke heavily. "Come to think of it, guess that was special work. He told me once he was taking some sort of correspondence course." "Special work!" chuckled Worth Gilbert. "I'll tell the world!" "Oh, well, give me a description of the suitcase," I hurried. "Brown. Sole-leather.
"I simply had to let you help me." "I should be glad to pay double for the pleasure you have given me in allowing me to help you," he said. Just at that moment a boy in a blue uniform planted a sole-leather suit-case at his feet, and exclaimed: "Here you are, Mr. Dunham. Had a fierce time findin' you. Thought you said you would be by the elevator door." "So I did," confessed the young man.
The lower jaw had been forced past the upper, until the first molar had penetrated the tissues beneath the tongue. A plaster-of-Paris apparatus was applied, and in two months was exchanged for one of sole-leather. In rising from the recumbent position the man had to lift his head with his hands.
The ambulances were driven to the door and, after the wounded, some eight or ten in number, had been assisted into them, I added from the stores in the house a bucket of lard, a crock of butter, a jar of apple-butter, a ham, a middling of bacon, and a side of sole-leather. All for the wounded!
"Uncle Remus," said the little boy, after a while, "you know I wasn't crying just now." "Dat's so, honey," the old man replied, "but 't wouldn't er bin long 'fo' you would er bin, kaze Mars John bawl out lak a man wa't got a strop in he han', so wa't de diff'unce?" When they had finished eating, Uncle Remus busied himself in cutting and trimming some sole-leather for future use.
Wynne, who had also alighted and was paying the driver. The small sole-leather grip was on the ground between his feet as he ransacked his pocketbook. A settlement was reached, the cabby nodded, touched his horse with his whip and continued to jog on up Fifth Avenue. "Now, he didn't order that chap to come back or he wouldn't have paid him," the detective reasoned.
To see him seated on his low stool in which, by the way, as if it had not been low enough, he sat in a leather-covered hole, perhaps for the sake of the softness and spring of the leather with his head and body bent forward over his lapstone or his last, and his right hand with the quick broad-headed hammer hammering up and down on a piece of sole-leather; or with both his hands now meeting as if for a little friendly chat about something small, and then suddenly starting asunder as if in astonished anger, with a portentous hiss, you might have taken him for an automaton moved by springs, and imitating human actions in a very wonderful manner so regular and machine-like were his motions, and so little did he seem to think about what he was at.
"What d'you mean, strange way? airplane or submarine?" I growled. "He brought it," Whipple's words marched out of him like a solemn procession, "in a brown, sole-leather suitcase." "With brass trimmings," Dykeman supplemented, and leaned back in his chair with an audible "Ah-h-h!" of satisfaction. If ever a poor devil was flabbergasted, it was the head of the Boyne agency at that moment.
I will stay here a week or a month if What nonsense! I must have distinguished myself, staring at her like a gawk. When she said she was the Queen of Sheba, I ought instantly to have replied what in the deuce is it I ought to have replied? How can a man be witty with a ton of sole-leather pressing on his spine!"
I suppose our chops are rather thin, but I don't mind." "Beefsteak and chops, both cut thin, and fried up like sole-leather. I know!" said Dr. Hayward, and he stamped his foot with unregenerate force. "I don't mind a bit, Edward." "You ought to mind, when it is your own house, and you buy the food and pay your housekeeper. It is an outrage!" "I don't mind, really, Edward." Dr.
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