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Bristol's theory, later to be dreadfully substantiated, was that the thief had broken the glass and reached into the case with an arrangement similar to that employed for pruning trees, having a clutch at the end, worked with a cord. "Hassan has been too clever for us!" said the inspector. "But what in God's name did that awful screaming mean?" I had a theory, but I did not advance it then.

And when a man talks to his lawyer and tells the truth it's no betrayal of confidence. Out with it!" "There's nothing to be done, Mr. Converse." "There's always something which can be done when a man is in trouble. You are Morgan Bristol's son. I was in school with your father. He went West and settled. Is he alive?" "I think so." "How is it that you don't know?" Mr.

I weighed the chances of Bristol's seeking me there; and, eager as I was to give them substance, found them but airy ultimately was forced to admit them to be nil. So I lay, whilst only a few hundred yards from me a singular scene was being enacted.

But he must have been a rogue early in life, and a needy rogue too. That ten thousand pounds of Lord Bristol's money should make many a sentimentalist reconsider if, indeed, sentimentalists can be made to reconsider, or even to consider, anything their notion of him as the incarnation of pious chivalry. At least the ten thousand pounds cost Charles dear. The widow's curse followed him home.

In pursuance of Bristol's plan, I concealed myself that evening just before the closing of the Museum doors, in a recess behind a heavy piece of Babylonian sculpture. Bristol was similarly concealed in another part of the room, and Mostyn joined us later.

Thornton Bristol," said Converse, apparently and blandly unconscious that he was tossing at the magnate something much in the nature of a bomb. Colonel Dodd came forward in his chair, his hands clutching the carved mahogany of the desk in front of him. "Oh, I beg your pardon, Colonel," purred Mr. Converse, amiably. "I forget that you are not as familiar with Mr. Bristol's identity as I am.

It was not until nearly dawn that my theory, and Bristol's, regarding the clutch arrangement, both were confirmed. For close under the railings which abut on Orpington Square, in a pool of blood we found just such an instrument as Bristol had described. And still clutching it was a pallid and ghastly shrunken hand that had been severed from above the wrist!

"La belle ma'm'selle ba gar! you have to be hit with brick bang dat fine, pretty lady she what tell me the good word to say to you about the bad folks you must know she leeve now in the good woman's house." Now it was Bristol's turn to grasp Etienne's arm. He shook the old man. "Miss Kilgour here? Speak up! Don't be so slow!" "I have speak up.

Soon after that, Prince George, the Duke of Ormond, and Lord Drumlanerick, the Duke of Queensbury's eldest son, left him and came over to the Prince, and joined him when he was come as far as the Earl of Bristol's house at Sherburn.

Buckingham took the prince directly to Bristol's house. Bristol was utterly confounded at seeing them. Nothing could be worse, he said, in respect to the completion of the treaty, than the prince's presence in Madrid. The introduction of so new and extraordinary an element into the affair would undo all that had been done, and lead the King of Spain to begin anew, and go over all the ground again.