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Such was the scene far as the eye could span away to the eastward, where the sky was lit up by a stray gleam or two from the long-since risen sun, who, though trying to hide himself behind a bank of blue-black clouds, was not quite able to conceal his whereabouts.
The savage who had exacted so brutal and excessive a revenge fled afar, and his whereabouts were never known. Captain Kidd is the most ubiquitous gentleman in history. If his earnings in the gentle craft of piracy were frugally husbanded, he has possibly left some pots of money in holes in the ground between Key West and Halifax.
"And he arrived at no theory?" Radnor hesitated visibly while he framed an answer. "He arrived at no theory which successfully covered the facts." "But he did have a theory as to the whereabouts of the bonds, did he not?" "Yes but it was without any foundation and I prefer not to go into it." The coroner abandoned the point. "Mr.
The grounds upon which Jane took this decision were altogether unknown to him until an explanation came from her father. Joseph, when news of the matter reached him, was disposed to entertain suspicions; with every care not to betray his own whereabouts, he wrote to Jane, and in due time received a reply, in which Jane told him truly her reasons for refusing the money.
She drew a sharp breath. "That was very ingenious of you." "So I thought," he rejoined modestly. "And what did she say?" "She said with scarcely a pause that she had sent you out of town to give you time to come to your senses, and it was quite futile for me to question her, as she had not the faintest intention of revealing your whereabouts." Ernestine breathed again.
Or, take characterization. Mary Hastings Bradley's "The Fairest Sex" represents, in the climax, a reporter's fiancee betraying the whereabouts of a young woman who is, technically, a criminal. One of the Committee held that, under the circumstances, the psychology is false: others "believed" that particular girl did that particular thing.
And not only Grandison, but his wife, Betty the maid; his mother, aunt Eunice; his father, uncle Ike; his brothers, Tom and John, and his little sister Elsie, were likewise absent from the plantation; and a hurried search and inquiry in the neighborhood resulted in no information as to their whereabouts.
I'm not supposed to admit to anyone that I know anything of the whereabouts of Holati Tate or Professor Mantelish." "Fibber!" Trigger said quietly. "So you know!" Plemponi looked appealingly at Mihul. She was grinning. "My lips are sealed, Trigger! I can't help it. Please believe me." "Let me sum it up then," Trigger said, tapping the arm of her chair with a finger tip.
Leland's case at all desperate, if that's any comfort to anybody, There the doctor smiled. 'You are Mr. Barndale, I presume. Miss Leland has evidence of the name and even the whereabouts of the scoundrel who inflicted the wound, and we are here to hunt him up. 'May I ask who's the suspected party? asked Inspector Webb with his eye on the doctor. 'Demetri Agryopoulo, said Lilian, 'a Greek
That, your honour, is all I know about it; but who the people are who played us the trick, or whereabouts the cave is, is more than I can say." "Do not you think that we might manage to discover the cave, though?" asked the Commander. "No, sir, certainly not," answered Stretcher, positively. "It may be close to us, or it may be five miles off.
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