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"A sister," continued the lady, "whom you haven't seen since you were a child; a sister who for family reasons has been living with other relatives; a girl of nineteen." "Yea, ma'am," said Prosper humbly. "But ef you wouldn't mind writin' all that down on a bit o' paper ye know my short memory! I would get it by heart to-day in the gulch.
It was while I was present that he first come ter know that his thief-proof safe had been opened and that his pile of greenbacks had been stolen. The safe had been opened with the key hidden back of the tobacco jar on his writin' desk." Isa Blagg broke off, looking to Kiddie for comment. "Well?" said Kiddie. "Go on. What's your theory? You mentioned the name of Nick Undrell a while back.
The Mope glared from one to the other; then shook his fist at Stangeist on the floor. "Youse two make me sick!" he sneered. "Wot's the use of waitin' all night? We was to bump him off, anyway, wasn't we? Dat's wot youse said yerselves, 'cause wot was ter stop him writin' out another paper if we didn't fix him fer keeps?"
But, I tell yo', sah, that befo' I was half way through tellin' what the newspaper said we had to tell, I was so mixed up that I was writin' mahself down as mah own daughter and provin' that the baby was twice divo'ced." "Then you really haven't got anything ready at all," said Hamilton. "Nothin', sah."
'Well, some little girl's been running, I said." "I want to learn things," she panted. "Then I asked, 'What things? and she answered, 'Oh, all about readin' and writin' and the things big rich folks know. If I had books, I'd learn 'em too. ... Naturally I bought the books." "Naturally," laughed Waldstricker. "Well, I stopped to ask where she was going and if her father was at home.
Then he folded it and put it in his pocket. "Now we're square," he said. "That'll stand true and legal in any police-court in England, that will. And don't you forget it." To the people who live in Rosemary Terrace the words "police-court" are very alarming indeed. Dickie turned a little paler and said, "Why police? I ain't done nothing wrong writin' what you telled me?"
But I will pass over particulars which filled eight pages of large note paper, the upshot bein' that she had left his church for good and all, and jined a Temperance mission church down in the city. And she wuz now writin' tracts to prove that intemperance wuz the beast with seven horns mentioned in Scripture.
If you have got ahead of him you're the only person I ever see that did, and you ought to be proud instead of ashamed. And I'd get him to make his offer in writin' and you lock up the writin'." "Why! Why, Captain Obed! How you do talk! You don't mean that Mr. Daniels is a cheat, do you? You don't mean such a thing as THAT?" The captain waved a protesting hand. "No, no," he declared.
The man strode forward as he spoke, clubbing the frenzied brutes with the stock of the long rifle he carried. "'Yelled on the view the opening pack," he quoted, as he distributed his blows impartially to right and left; "'rock, glen, and cavern paid them back. Them thar be Scott's words, stranger, an' I reckon as how ol' Sir Walter knew whut he wus writin' 'bout.
It is written in the form of a letter," and he read the following: "My dear friends, I am writin' this as ef I was dead and you still in the land of the livin', as we call it; I feel now as if when you read it I shall be in the land of the livin', and you among them who feed mostly on husks.
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