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He returned to the State House with an order to Kate Underwood to deliver them to him upon demand. "Dad make a good bargain?" asked Miss Underwood, with a laugh. Gordon told her the price he had paid. "If I had telephoned to him what you wanted them for they would have cost you three times as much," she told him, nodding sagely. "Then I'm glad you didn't.
The destruction of the machine was told, and it was hinted that the chauffeur was slightly injured; nothing was said to suggest that Richard Morton had been hurt at all. The police, to whom Duncan had telephoned, made no bones of pooh-poohing the entire matter, and laughing in their sleeves about it. The police had their own ideas about the whole thing and speedily forgot them all.
Then he called up Biff Bates, and made an appointment with him to meet him at Jimmy Platt's office in half an hour. He would have telephoned Platt, but the engineer had no telephone. "Is Mr. Platt in?" Biff stood hesitantly in the door when he found the place occupied only by a brown-haired girl, who was engaged in the quiet, unprofessional occupation of embroidering a shirtwaist pattern.
I must get back; really I...." "Who says so?" Flint laid the bottles down with an irritating calmness. "The station-master. Your ... your servant just telephoned for me." "Oh, well, we should worry! Sit down." "Mr. Flint, really, I must.... You know I can't.... I...." "Sit down!" His tone was a dash of cold water thrown in the face of her rising hysteria. She sat down.
But the scratching sound I heard with my two ears. And you never heard so worrying a sound before!" "It has stopped?" I said. "Yes, it has stopped. It stopped just before I telephoned. I thought I heard something touch the door and I went up and listened. I couldn't hear anything. I knocked. I got no answer. I remembered your orders.
Osborne is a most splendid actor, and ought to have been in the detective force I was making headway with her chauffeur out in the garage. Yes, Mr. Berrington, you can set your mind at rest Miss Challoner is perfectly well. I wonder if by chance you telephoned to Holt this afternoon." "I tried to." "And you couldn't get through? The line was out of order?" "Yes." "Good!"
As soon as they were taken to the police station, the mistake was cleared up at once. The chief-of-police telephoned an apology to the university. I believe the league is out again tonight looking for Alderman Schwefeldampf. But the leaders assure me there will be no breach of the peace whatever. As I say, I think their idea is to throw him into the reservoir."
The men who had found him had, of course, reported the fact after the first confusion was over, but it was some time before the news got up to any superior officer, though the King's aide-de-camp had left instructions that any information about Giovanni was to be telephoned to the Quirinal at once.
The postscript was dated ten days later, from Dysart's own house: "Receiving no reply, I telephoned you, but Brandon says you are away from the city on business and have left no address, so I took the liberty of entering your house, selecting this letter from the mass of nine days' old mail awaiting you, and shall direct it to you at the hotel in Baltimore where Bunny Gray says that somebody has seen you several times with a Mr.
She heard him laugh with his usual gaiety. "Yes, he's a truthful little soul. He takes after me. What was it?" Susan made a wry mouth in the dark. "Nothing at all," she said, "I just telephoned I thought we might go out somewhere together." "GREAT HEAVEN, WE'RE ENGAGED!" she reminded her sinking heart, fiercely. "Oh, too bad! I was at the Gerald's, at one of those darn rehearsals." A silence.
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