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Baggs, he immediately suspected that I was charged with the duty of taking the daughter to, or near, the place chosen for the father's retreat; and had therefore abstained from interfering prematurely with my movements.
"You see," said Burton, with a wry smile, "how simple is the detective's job. Willie is a natural-born detective. He got everything wrong from A to Izzard, yet if it hadn't been for Willie we might not have cleared up the mystery so soon." "It isn't all cleared up yet," said Jonas Prim. "Who murdered Baggs?" "Two yeggs known as Dopey Charlie and the General," replied Burton.
WE posted five-and-thirty miles, then stopped for a couple of hours to rest, and wait for a night coach running northward. On getting into this vehicle we were fortunate enough to find the fourth inside place not occupied. Mrs. Baggs showed her sense of the freedom from restraint thus obtained by tying a huge red comforter round her head like a turban, and immediately falling fast asleep.
"If you don't see the doctor again soon, under the gallows, you will probably not have the pleasure of meeting with him for some considerable time." Mrs. Baggs smote both her hands distractedly on her knees, and whispered a devout ejaculation to herself softly. "Allow me to deal with you, ma'am, as a woman of the world," I went on.
"Now, my own love," I said, in conclusion suiting my gestures, it is unnecessary to say, to the tenderness of my language "there is not the least doubt that Mrs. Baggs will end by agreeing to my proposals. Nothing remains, therefore, but for you to give me the answer now, which I have been waiting for ever since that last day when we met by the riverside.
His grip tightened on French Janin; he knew that at the first opportunity the old man would sink back into the oblivion of morphia. "I've done all I could for you, Harry" the other whimpered. "I've been some good. Janin was the first to encourage you; don't expect too much." "If I get anywhere, you did it," Harry Baggs told him. "I'd like to see it all," French Janin said. "I know it so well.
"Funny you should say that," answered the foreman. "He's had the thought of your retirement in his mind for a good bit now. Only consideration for your feelings has prevented him dropping a hint. He always likes it to come from us, rather than him, when anybody falls out." Mr. Baggs took this with tolerable calm. "I'll think of it next year," he said.
Abel clutched at the suggestion. His eyes looked sideways slyly at Mr. Baggs. The ogre seemed inclined to talk, and through speech might come salvation, for he had acted rather than talked on previous occasions. "We want to be different from common boys," said the marauder. "Well, you are, for one, and there's no need to trouble in your case. You was born different, and different you've got to be.
I like, I say, Hood's life even better than his books, and I wish, with all my heart, Monsieur et cher confrere, the same could be said for both of us, when the inkstream of our life hath ceased to run. Yes: if I drop first, dear Baggs, I trust you may find reason to modify some of the unfavorable views of my character, which you are freely imparting to our mutual friends.
Before he left the breakfast table Courtney had consented to give a talk before the Literary Society on the coming Friday night. Mrs. Maude Baggs Pollock had been at him for a week to tell of his experiences at the front. She promised a full attendance. "I've never made a speech in my life," he said, "and I know I'd be scared stiff, Mrs. Pollock." "Pooh! Don't you talk to me about being scared!
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