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"And flower beds with borders of white shells," Amy finished for her. "I know just what you mean, Mollie; I've seen them myself." "Girls," said Betty, jumping up from the overturned suitcase she was using for a seat, and speaking impressively, "I have a feeling " here she paused for effect. "I have a feeling," she continued, "that we are going to have a good time." "Humph," snorted Mollie.
Here and there one saw one alone carrying an extra heavy suitcase, which somehow you knew contained extra-specially good things to eat, and when you looked at her face under her big hat a certain something there told you that on the third finger of the left hand under her glove you would surely find a diamond half-loop, and even, perhaps, a very plain new gold band!
Here he opened the suitcase, and carefully taking out the dress of the Café de la Paix he spread it on a sample table. "What d'ye think of that, Mawruss?" he asked. Morris made no answer. He was gazing at the garment with bulging eyes, and beads of perspiration ran down his forehead. "Abe!" he gasped at length, "where did you get that garment from?"
It's the only one I own." On his way back to the fire from Deerfield Street, the night before, he had stopped at the hotel, changed his evening clothes for a business suit, and left his suitcase in his room. It had not occurred to him that the fire might spread as far as that.
So far as Allerdyke had ascertained, James had no luggage beyond his big suitcase and the handbag which now stood on the table before his own eyes he was a man for travelling light, James, and never encumbered himself with more than indispensable necessities. Where, then A tap at the door of the sitting-room prefaced the entry of the two medical men.
There she vented a startled gasp. The suitcase which she had left closed upon the floor was open wide open its contents disarranged. Some one had rummaged it thoroughly. And Miss Donovan knew that she was under suspicion. The knowledge that she was thus being spied upon gave the girl a sudden thrill, but not of fear. Instead it served to strengthen her resolve.
The tall young man came to earth with a thud. A startled frown gathered quickly on his brow. "What?... Then I'm late indeed. Nine o'clock! I don't see how it's possible...." He seized Commissioner O'Neill's suitcase from the operating-table, with a panic show of hurry. Kern's voice took on a cheering inflection. "Don't you mind, Mr. V.V. All the swells'll be late. D'you want me to help you, sir?
I watched the face of my companion for a moment, then, "Worth," I said a bit nervously after all, I nearly had to know "is your father going to come through?" "Eh?" He looked at me startled, then put it aside negligently. "Oh, the money? No. I'll leave that up to Cummings." A brief pause. "We'll get a wiggle on us and dig up the suitcase."
He waded and slopped back to the store platform, where he put down his suitcase and started on a short tour of exploration. Through the fog and darkness he could dimly perceive a signpost standing at the corner of the crossroad where the store was located. He tramped over to look at it. There were two signs affixed to the post. By the aid of the pocket flashlight he read them.
Because he understood a little of her loathing for the place, Manley lied heroically about his headache, so that within an hour they were leaving town, with the two great trunks roped securely to the buckboard behind the seat, and with Val's suitcase placed flat in the front, where she could rest her feet upon it.
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