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"I'd forty pounds, in my letters, less than an hour afterwards. Ayscough knows that!" Mr. Parminter paid no attention to this remark. He had been whispering to the police inspector, and now he turned to the Coroner. "I should like this witness to stand down for a few minutes, sir," he said. "I wish to have Miss Wildrose recalled." The Coroner gently motioned Zillah to go back to the witness-box.
'Tell me how I can reach you? cried he; but Wildrose smiled and shook her head, and sat down quietly. The prince saw that it was no use, and turned and made his way out of the forest. But he might as well have stayed there, for any good he was to his father, so full was his heart of longing for Wildrose.
Daniel Multenius, me and Miss Zillah Wildrose has come into his bit of property, and does the two gentlemen desire to continue their tenancy, and is there anything we can do to make 'em comfortable see? Oh, I'll talk to 'em all right!" "What're you getting at, all the same?" asked the detective. "Give it a title!" Melky squeezed his companion's arm. "I want to see 'em," he whispered.
Wind, and bright sunlight, and more wind, and hypocritical, drifting clouds, and more sun; lean cattle walking, walking, up-hill and down coulee, nose to the dry ground, snipping the stray tufts where should be a woolly carpet of sweet, ripened grasses, eating wildrose bushes level with the sod, and wishing there was only an abundance even of them; drifting uneasily from hilltop to farther hilltop, hunger-driven and gaunt, where should be sleek content.
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