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He suffered on a rack of guilty bliss, but he managed to hold back the secret which was bubbling up in him with a bromo-seltzer effervescence. Incidentally his "pretty maid, pretty maid, Marguerite" had kept back the fact that she had a husband in the hardware business in Terre Haute. What the husband was keeping back is none of this history's business.
You was found on the desert, wasn't ye when you's li'l' girl baby girl? I know. Can't fool o' Filer. B'en huntin' you f'r years." He closed his eyes again, and his head sank forward on his breast. Lucy shook him awake and prepared a dose of bromo-seltzer, which he readily drank at her command. "How did you know about me, Uncle?" she asked. "What you said is the truth.
It is still there, down on the extreme eastern end of Java, unless in the meantime the old rascal has taken it into his demoniacal head to blow himself to pieces as he threatened to do the day we lay on our stomachs, holding on to the earth, with the sides trembling beneath us. Old Bromo was well named. It reminds one of Bromo-Seltzer. I had heard of him long before I reached Java.
"You'll have a bath, a shave, four hot towels, and a big bromo-seltzer all in the morning, and you'll go into the State Convention and stick by the party, just as you always have done. But as for to-night why, Phon, I wouldn't be surprised to see you pledge yourself to Arba Spinney." He gayly shoved the man to one side and went on.
Morris rose stealthily, crept forward, and placed a bright blue bromo-seltzer bottle in the fat hand which hung over the back of the chair of state. The hand closed instinctively as, with dawning curiosity, the Honourable Timothy studied the small figure at his side.
He had seen the window left open and had taken the chance. The burglar softly opened the door of the lighted room. The gas was turned low. A man lay in the bed asleep. On the dresser lay many things in confusion a crumpled roll of bills, a watch, keys, three poker chips, crushed cigars, a pink silk hair bow, and an unopened bottle of bromo-seltzer for a bulwark in the morning.
At this instant she looked up to see the bleary old eyes fixed on her intently. "Feeling better, Uncle?" she asked lightly. "I've got some bromo-seltzer. I'll give you a shot; it will liven you up. Don't want to go down and out so early in the evening, old sport!" "Desert girl, huh?" thickly muttered Basil Filer. "Huh I know somethin' 'bout you.
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