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Eileen jerked from her throat the strand of pearls that she had worn continuously for four years and threw it contemptuously on her dressing table. "I'll make Uncle Jim get me a rope with two or three strands in it that will reach to my waist. 'A suitcase! I don't know what I would fill a suitcase with from here.
Alexandra shook the tears from her eyes and laughed. The stranger nodded to his driver, dropped his suitcase inside the fence, and opened the gate. "Then you are glad to see me, and you can put me up overnight? I couldn't go through this country without stopping off to have a look at you. How little you have changed! Do you know, I was sure it would be like that. You simply couldn't be different.
The elaborate mechanism of the pit-prop industry was not needed to provide a means of carrying forged notes from France to England. They could be secreted about the person of a traveller crossing by any of the ordinary routes. Hundreds of notes could be sewn into the lining of an overcoat, thousands carried in the double bottom of a suitcase.
Second, on his return at the end of the afternoon, he saw standing before the house a taxicab with a trunk beside the chauffeur. In the musty museum of a room behind the pawnshop he found Hunt and the Duchess and Old Jimmie and Barney; and also Maggie, coming down the stairway, hat and coat on and carrying a suitcase.
Wiping his streaming eyes, he looked from Wallie to Pinkey and declared resentfully: "This is the result of your reckless driving. The cork came out of my cough syrup in the suitcase. The only way I can get relief from the irritation is to apply my tongue to the puddle. I shall have to lick my valise until I can have the prescription refilled in Prouty."
Ethel's and mine always curdles." "Do I?" yelled the queen of burlesque. "I invented it." And she was down on her knees, her fingers fumbling with the lock of her suitcase.
"Merle, dear, your hat is on the piano Mother, hand him his hat I'll bring his suitcase." "Well, I'll be sure to come back to see you all some day." "Yes, now don't forget us no, we mustn't let him do that." They were out on the porch, going down the walk. The listener stepped lightly to a window and became also a watcher. Ahead walked Patricia Whipple and her new brother. The stepmother and Mrs.
He would save Uncle all the worry of an argument by simply removing the cause. There in the dusk, he whistled the old college call, then swung himself up on a fat stone lantern, and in a few minutes he swung down a suitcase and Sada in American clothes.
But Richard Thorn wanted to make certain that all his data was both correct and recorded. Sorensen had nothing to do but watch. He had no hand in setting up the equipment. He had brought the Black Suitcase, and that was all he was going to be allowed to do. From the top of the Black Suitcase projected two one-inch copper electrodes, fourteen inches apart.
His companion's laugh was not enthusiastic. It was as near a groan as a laugh could well be. He put the yellow suitcase down in the mud and looked wearily up and down the fog-draped road. There was little of it to be seen, but that little was not promising. "Dear me!" he exclaimed. "Dear me!" And then added, under his breath: "Oh, dear!" Mr. Pulcifer regarded him intently.
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