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When I found through the brunette's note I can't seem to find any other name for him that in all probability we knew the men who had made away with Trent, I thought the game was almost in our hands, and now I dropped my head dejectedly. 'And now we're a good deal mixed, supplemented Dave dryly. 'We're in a dilemma! It was indeed a dilemma, if no worse.
I am chaperoned by my aunt, who is not so good a sight-seer as myself, and for two days I have ventured Here the sharp call of some hurrying chair-boys drowned her words, and I next heard the brunette's voice. 'Things do happen so strangely' it was impossible to catch all of her words 'mamma is sick so often and papa I do dislike being alone, though in the Art Gallery acquaintances.
How quickest secure the miscreants, fasten this last, worst crime upon them, and rescue Trent, if he yet lived? And then the previously discussed project of making public the brunette's letter for the handwritings were identical, and we never doubted that the brunette and 'E. Roe' were one and the same was again canvassed. 'It's the thing to do! Dave had declared.
Nevertheless, Miss Octavia's sallow cheek nearest the colonel the sunny side had taken a faint brunette's flush, and the corners of her proud mouth were slightly lifted. "But, candidly, Miss Reed, don't you think that you would prefer to have old Hannibal, whom you know, as county judge, than a stranger and a Northern man like ME?"
As to Miss Jenrys and the mysterious guard, he would no more have given up the thought of solving the problem of the brunette's pursuit of these two than would I at that moment. But we needed all the light possible, and we agreed at once that to obtain this it would be wise, at this point, to make certain confidences to the two persons most interested.
She lowered her voice "Are you there, Mr. Harleston?" "I'm here since I can't be with you there," he replied. "Assuredly not! I'm not exactly in receiving attire. Meanwhile the morning and Madame Brunette's doings. Good-night, Mon camarade."
The screams of mirth redoubled; Cigarette's style of withering eloquence was suited to all her auditors' tastes, and under the chorus of laughs at his cost, her infuriated adversary plucked up courage and roared forth a defiance. "White hands and a brunette's face are fine things for a soldier. He kills women he kills women with his lady's grace!"
"Nellie," a sweet-looking lady with a brunette's face, which retained much of the beauty of youth, although she had now attained to middle age, was as hearty as her husband in her greeting. "So glad to see you you are just in time for dinner; for a wonder Lewis is punctual today." She shook hands with Cardo, and placed a chair for him at the well-filled table.
During his call on the Barndollars that morning, he had partly overcome Elsa's unfavorable impression of him by treating her, to some extent, "like a grown-up woman" and showing by his manner that he was not unconscious of the handsome young brunette's personal attractions.
'And we're to patrol Stony Island Avenue and the surrounding country by day and by night, with a full force. Ain't that it? 'Perfectly. Dave, you are as full of repetitions as an old woman! 'Or a young one, he retorted; 'and you think it is proved that the brunette's a man, do you? 'It was proved, for me, long ago. 'And that letter? I can't see why it should not be launched at once.
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