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When I was a little girl, and my nurse used to make up tales to put me to sleep at night, I would sometimes get impatient and tell her to "go down into the story and find out what happened next." Just now, I feel as if that is what I should like to do in my future. The first face I saw on the platform when we arrived in Chicago was Mr. Brett's.
Brett feels that his inquiry is ended. For me it has just commenced." The young man's justifiable rage created a sensation which was promptly allayed by Brett's cool voice. "May I ask," he said, "what reason you have to suppose that I should so readily throw up the sponge and leave Monsieur Henri Dubois the victor in this contest?"
Believe me, Mrs. Capella, if you have strength of will to adopt my programme in its entirety, the trip to Naples may have results wholly unexpected by the runaway." "Really, Margaret, Mr. Brett's advice seems to me to be very sensible. It happens, too, that my father needs a change of air, and I think we could both persuade him to come with us to the coast."
Brett, who was a big, red-faced, genial-looking man, as much unlike the typical lawyer of the novel and the stage, as a fox-hunting squire would have been. But Mr. Brett's reputation was assured. "I think I have that pleasure," he repeated, rubbing his hands, and looking as though he was enjoying the interview very much. "I have seen him before once or twice, have I not? eh, Mr. er Mr.
Oh, I was determined that I would do it directly. "I had said all I had to say about Brett's hands. I had brought my entertainment to an end. I had been thanked and complimented all round. I was quite at liberty. I was going to do what I had to do. I was determined, yes. "We were near the outskirts of London.
When they had taken their departure Lady Susan declared that Ann was looking tired and that it was high time she and Brett started on their homeward tramp. "You'll be feeling quite yourself again by next week, my dear," she said. "Just in time for Brett's party on the Sphinx," she added, smiling. A faint look of hesitation crossed Ann's face. Brett saw it instantly.
Roger rose on one elbow, but the medical officer pressed him gently back on the cot. "Did you ever find out how Bill Sticoon's ship was sabotaged, Captain Strong?" asked Tom. "We sure did, Tom," said Strong. "One of Brett's confederates slugged the Solar Guard officer in charge of monitoring the race on Deimos and took his place.
She made up her mind that she would not go near Testbridge till everything was settled, and the keys of the shop in Mr. Brett's hands; and remained, therefore, where she was with Letty, who to keep her company delayed her departure as long as she could without giving offense at Thornwick.
A later volume recorded his retirement from the service. Hume and Winter reached Brett's flat together. "Any luck with the Jap, sir?" asked the detective cheerily. Brett told them what had happened, and Winter sighed. Here, indeed, was a promising subject for an arrest. Why not lock him up, and seize the type-writer? But he knew the barrister by this time, and uttered no word.
Ordinarily Callender would have pretended that he could have checkmated Merriman if he had wanted to for in some things he was a child, and it humored him to pretend, and to intimate, and to look wise; but on the present occasion, and much to Powers's and Brett's consternation, he began to speak to them gravely, and confidentially, and a little pitifully.
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