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Updated: May 14, 2025
A card lay on the old lawyer's blotting-pad, and after glancing at it, he passed it to Viner. "See that?" he said. "Now, who on earth is Mr. Armitstead Ashton Armitstead, of Rouendale House, Rawtenstall? Who left this?" he went on, as a clerk entered the room with some letters. "A gentleman who called at three o'clock, sir," replied the clerk.
"With all that about the change of name, and the age of the girl, and and the 'South America' I saw on the blotting-pad, and the South American dress," went on Agnes, incoherently, "if I happened to be before you, you thought afterward, I know you did, that it might be; and " "With a difference, with a difference!" suddenly rang out Peggy Pelham's clear young voice in tones of indignation.
His greatest coups on the money-market had been in a great measure the result of this faculty of prompt decision. To-day he possessed himself of the blotting-pad, and examined the half-formed syllables stamped upon it with as much coolness and self-possession as if he had been seated in his own office reading his own newspaper.
If you will permit me, my dear young lady, I should like to congratulate you." "But but " She struggled for words. Foyle seated himself, and picking up a pen beat a regular tattoo on his blotting-pad. He went on, unheeding the girl's interruption. "I won't deny that if you had told me you killed Harry Goldenburg a day or two ago, I might have believed you, and it might have made things awkward.
She accepted, too, Drusilla's friendly offer to help in the writing of the cards, of which it would be necessary to send out some two hundred. There being no time to lose, they set themselves immediately to the task, Drusilla at the desk, and Olivia writing on a blotting-pad at a table. They worked for twenty minutes or half an hour in silence.
"You'll have to explain that you didn't write the first answers." Betton halted. "Well I I more or less dictated them, didn't I?" "Oh, virtually, they're yours, of course." "You think I can put it that way?" "Why not?" The secretary absently drew an arabesque on the blotting-pad. "Of course they'll keep it up longer if you write yourself," he suggested. Betton blushed, but faced the issue.
Craven, thoughtfully; then spreading a sheet of note-paper on his blotting-pad, and drawing his cheque-book towards him, he proceeded: "Now remember, Patterson, I trust to your honour implicitly.
But as it happened, Banghurst had left a rook rifle he sometimes played with on the top of the desk, and on the corner of the mantelshelf was a tin with three or four cartridges remaining in it. As Filmer went up and down that room wrestling with his intolerable dilemma he went first towards the neat little rifle athwart the blotting-pad and then towards the neat little red label
It was a blotting-pad stuffed with Patrick's jottings. Jane brought it to Con as to the proper keeper of the reliquary. He persuaded her to join him in examining it, and together they bent their heads, turning leaf by leaf, facing, laughing, pursuing the search for more, sometimes freely shouting.
The Chief contemplated his blotting-pad gloomily. Desmond knew it for a trick of his when worried. "Did you have a good night?" he said to Desmond, suddenly. "Yes," he said, not in the least understanding the drift of the question. "... though I didn't mean to get up quite so early!" The Chief ignored this sally. "Nothing out of the ordinary happened during the night, I suppose?" he asked again.
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