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"How about it, Watson?" inquired Uncle John, turning to the lawyer. "I'll explain the proposition, sir, so you will all understand it," he replied, and drew his chair into the circle. "To begin with, Kenneth visited the glen one day, to make a sketch, and found his old table-rock covered with an advertising sign." "How preposterous!" exclaimed Louise.
The sun had nearly set as the engine pulled slowly out of the depot. The car in which they sat was filled with men on their way down South, some of them being soldiers in uniform and the rest civilians. Macgreggor, Watson and Jenks were at the rear end of the car, while George had to find a seat at the other end, next to a very thin man who wore the uniform of a Confederate captain.
Certainly Watson inwardly rejoiced to see Rhamda Geos incredulous, his keen face whitening like that of one who has just heard sacrilege uttered to see Geos rise in his place, grip the table tightly, and hear him exclaim: "The Jarados! Did you say the Jarados? He has come amongst us, and we have not known? You are perfectly sure of this?"
"You beat everything for luck, Joe." "So he does," said Bickford, who felt that it was time for him to speak. "It's lucky for me that I fell in with him. It brought me luck, too, for we went into partnership together." "Have you brought home five thousand dollars, too?" asked Watson. "I've got about the same as Joe, and now I'm going home to marry Susan Smith if she'll have me."
Didn't you, Julia? Emily Watson told the story of her misfortunes in a low, musical voice, heedless of two or three interruptions, hardly conscious of her listener, impressed and interested by the fatality of circumstances which she believed in design against her. She was a small, slender girl of about eighteen.
I've got ships of my own, and I dare say I could find a berth for you on one of them. You seem to know something of navigation?" "Very little, sir; just what I picked up on the Good Intent." "Well, that's a beginning. I've no doubt that Admiral Watson will wish you to go to Gheria with him: your knowledge of the place will be useful.
"I am sure that I shall say nothing of the kind." "You see, my dear Watson," he propped his test-tube in the rack, and began to lecture with the air of a professor addressing his class "it is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself.
'Then the devil take thee! said the marquis, rising. The same moment Richard reeled, and but for the men about him, would have fallen heavily. Dorothy darted forward, but could not come near him for the crowd. 'My lord Charles, cried the marquis, 'see the poor fellow taken care of. Let him sleep, and perchance on the morrow he will listen to reason. Mistress Watson will see to his hurts.
But fatigue and hunger, and exposure to the rain, had done their work. George tottered, clutched at the air, and then sank on the hillside, inert and unconscious. In a moment Waggie was licking his face, with a pathetic expression of inquiry in his little brown eyes, and Watson was bending over him. Again came the bay from the hound and the distant cry from a human voice.
We had shaken off Lord Mount-James, and Overton had gone to consult with the other members of his team over the misfortune which had befallen them. There was a telegraph-office at a short distance from the hotel. We halted outside it. "It's worth trying, Watson," said Holmes. "Of course, with a warrant we could demand to see the counterfoils, but we have not reached that stage yet.
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