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Even the accident of his friend Ballantyne's having taken to publishing a newspaper, and having room at his press for what I believe printers profanely call 'job-work, may not have been without influence.
If the Inspector had called upon him before he had made known his presence to Mrs. Ballantyne's solicitor and offered his evidence, his position would have been difficult. He would have had to discover some other good reason why he had lain quietly at his hotel during these last days. But fortune had favoured him. He had to thank, above all, the secrecy of the native servants.
"Everything you asked for," she said and she added hurriedly, "Do you still collect miniatures? No time for that now I suppose." Once more Ballantyne's voice called to them from the camp-fire. "You must go." Thresk looked through the opening of the tent. Ballantyne had turned and was coming back towards them.
The evidence roused those present to such a tension of excitement and to so loud a burst of murmuring that it was quite a minute before order was restored and Thresk took up his tale again. He described Ballantyne's search for the thief. "And what were you doing," Mr. Travers asked, "whilst the search was being made?"
All that passed between Ballantyne and myself passed when we were alone; and Ballantyne was now dead." "Yes, but you had dined with the Ballantynes on that night. Surely it's strange that since you were in Bombay Mrs. Ballantyne's advisers did not seek you out." "Yes, yes," added Mr. Hazlewood, "very strange indeed, Mr.
Then she caught sight of Thresk's face over against her. Her eyes appealed to him for silence; she turned quickly to her husband. "I only said how's London?" A smile spread over Ballantyne's face. "Now did you say that? How's London! Now why did you ask how London was? How should London be? What sort of an answer did you expect?" "I didn't expect any answer," replied Stella.
There will still remain upwards of £35,000. "Heaven's arm strike with us 'tis a fearful odds." Yet with health and continued popularity there are chances in my favour. Dine at James Ballantyne's, and happy man is he at the result of the sale; indeed it must have been the making or marring of him. Sir Henry Steuart there, who "fooled me to the top of my bent." December 21.
Thresk had supplied a story which accounted for the crime, and cross-examination could not shake him. It was easy to believe that at the very moment when Thresk was saying goodbye to Captain Ballantyne by the fire on the edge of the camp the thief slipped into the marquee, and when discovered by Ballantyne either on his return or later shot him with Mrs. Ballantyne's rifle.
Life by Sir W. Scott in Ballantyne's Novelists Library. Novelist, b. at Greenock and in business as a clerk in Glasgow, but about 1820 adopted literature as his profession. He wrote several novels of which the best known is Wearyfoot Common; others were The Robber of the Rhine and The Magician. In his later years he ed. Chambers's Journal.
Ballantyne's eye by confidential persons; nor was there an instance of treachery during the many years in which these precautions were resorted to, although various individuals were employed at different times. Double proof-sheets were regularly printed off. One was forwarded to the Author by Mr.
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