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Updated: July 20, 2025
It drew up at the entrance to the booking office, and Strangwise, springing from the driver's seat, flung open the door. "Come on!" he cried, "we must look sharp or we'll miss our train!" He dragged a couple of bags off the roof and led the way into the station.
After spending over fifteen minutes in Charing Cross station, watching the crowds at the booking offices, the telegraph and telephone booths and the restaurant, he concluded that he had been mistaken in his course of reasoning and reluctantly turned his steps once more toward the shop of M. Perrier. There was, of course, still the chance that his deductions had been wrong.
Twelve o'clock struck, and no signs as yet of the Leroy party; that is to say, with the exception of one man, namely, Mr. Jasper Vermont. "Your swells are always late," said a thick-lipped turfite, biting his stubby pencil prior to booking a favourable bet. "They gives any money for style, an' plays it high on us. It ain't their way to be to time for anything, not they only us poor chaps."
"The advertisement merely stated that the boat would sail to-day, but as she didn't leave the last port until yesterday and she'd have some cargo to ship, it's unlikely that she'll clear before noon." "It might have been safer to telegraph, booking two berths. These little boats don't often miss a chance of picking up a few dollars, and the skipper would have waited."
'With you, sir, if you please, in pounds, and the gentleman in the red whiskers, too, if he likes very well, in half sovereigns, if you prefer it. So I went on, betting on every side, till the bell rung to mount. As I knew I had plenty of time to spare, I took little notice, and merely giving a look to my girths, I continued leisurely booking my bets.
And now you your daring to keep me here like this shows me I've failed." "You haven't. You've raised the efficiency of the office forty per cent. I'm turning you over to my brother as a prize. I've got you in mind for the booking end of the business. That's what I think of you." "Oh, Mr. Visigoth, if you knew if you knew what that would mean to me. I'll give you my best!
The date of the trial was set for March 5th. On November 5th, when he was taken from the Verona to jail, Thomas H. Tracy gave his name at the booking window as George Martin, in order to spare the feelings of relatives to whom the news of his arrest would have proven a severe shock. When the officers were checking the names later he was surprised to hear them call out "Tracy, Thomas Tracy."
Emerson told him he must beware of finding and booking it, lest life should have nothing more to show him. The older ornithologists must have heard this song many times, but they never seem to have suspected the identity of the singer. Other birds that sing on the wing are the meadowlark, goldfinch, purple finch, indigo-bird, Maryland yellow-throat, and woodcock.
A few minutes before the hour he entered the station and glanced sharply around at the many groups scattered about in the neighbourhood of the bookstall. There was no sign of Mlle. Dorian. He walked around the booking office without seeing her and glanced into the waiting-room.
"'I'd like to see his match, that's all. Here he gave a rather contemptuous glance at my hack. "Well, one word led to another, and it ended at last in our booking a match, with which one party was no less pleased than the other.
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