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Perhaps some other secret service people had waylaid him as he entered the town. Perhaps he was even then in bonds in some cellar, being examined for letters by some of the usurper's men. While I was fretting myself into a state of hysteria, the catch of one of the great window-doors above me was pushed back. Someone came out on the balcony just over my head.
But I'll do what I can for you. Come in and see me in about a week. Goo' day." Rabin, the salesman, waylaid Mr. Wrenn in the corridor. "You look kind of peeked, Wrenn. Old Goglefogle been lighting into you? Say, I ought to have told you first. I forgot it. The old rat, he's been planning to stick the knife into you all the while.
First he heard that Parley Pratt, the Archer of Paradise and one of the Twelve Apostles, had been foully murdered back in Arkansas while seeking to carry to their mother the children of his ninth wife. The father of these children, so his informant reported, had waylaid and shot him. Then came rumours of a large wagon-train going south through Utah on its way to California.
Now thar war a peddler some say he slipped one icy evenin', 'bout dusk in winter some say evil ones waylaid him fur his gear an' his goods in his pack, but the settlemint mostly believes he war alone whenst he fell. His pack 'pears ter be full still, they say but ye air 'bleeged ter know he hev hed ter set that pack down fur good 'fore this time.
He waylaid me on the poop just now and said something about evil communications corrupting good manners. Seems to me I've heard that before. Queer thing to say. He tried to make it out somehow that if he wasn't corrupt it wasn't your fault. As if this was any concern of mine. He's as mad as he's fat or else he puts it on." Carter laughed a little and leaned his shoulders against a bulkhead.
Knowing Jasmin's abilities, and the poverty of his parents, the Abbe used his influence to obtain an admission for him to one of the town's schools, where he was again enabled to carry on his education. The good Abbe was helpful to the boy in many ways. One evening, when Jasmin was on his way to the Augustins to read and recite to the Sisters, he was waylaid by a troop of his old playfellows.
But here he was waylaid by Beauty, Beauty opulent in charms, affluent in dress, persuasive in speech, and Spanish in accent! In vain she repeated the invitation in "Excelsior," happily scorned by all Alpine-climbing youth, and rejected by this child of the Sierras, a rejection softened in this instance by a laugh and his last gold coin.
"Take your luggage aboard for a peseta, sir!" he cried, grasping the side of the vehicle and keeping pace with it. I confess that I suspected some game, and that Meeker had waylaid me. It looked like a bold move to block me at the last minute, and I was rather amused at the idea of watching their game and seeing what might be the tactics. The little fellow had changed his appearance a trifle.
In truth, he was deeper than ever in the quicksands of misunderstanding. He shut his teeth with a click. How neatly she had waylaid and trapped him! "Those are from Lucerne, sir." "What?" bewildered. "Those wood-carvings which you are touching with your cane, sir." "I beg your pardon," said Courtlandt, apologetically, and gained the open. He threw a quick glance down the street. There they were.
She did not know where she had seen this lady; but she was a travelling American; she accosted one in determined tones, and, at some time in the past, she had waylaid and inconvenienced her. Madame von Marwitz, as the three trooped down upon her, did not rise. She pointed to the lower terrace.
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