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Updated: June 19, 2025
Berrington, madam?" an immensely tall, bull-necked, plain-clothes policeman, of pompous, forbidding mien, suddenly asked. "Yes, officer, it is," she snapped. During all the time I had known her I had never seen her quite like this. "See here," he said, turning to me, "I want your address, and for the present you will stay here." I am considered good-tempered.
We returned to Verplanck's in the Streamline in record time, dined, and then found McNeill, a local detective, waiting to add his quota of information. McNeill was of the square-toed, double- chinned, bull-necked variety, just the man to take along if there was any fighting. He had, however, very little to add to the solution of the mystery, apparently believing in the chauffeur- and-maid theory.
Once he thought he heard cautious steps beyond his door. He could not be certain, yet he imagined the bull-necked landlord standing with his ear to some crack seeking to determine whether or not he slept. His thin little body grew rigid and a cold sweat started from him.
"You will have little credit from this gentleman, I perceive. Tongues are sharp in Hampshire, sir." "And swords?" "Hum! we may prove that. In two days' time is the vepres du tournoi, when we may see if your lance is as quick as your wit." "All very well, Roger Harcomb," cried a burly, bull-necked young man, whose square shoulders and massive limbs told of exceptional personal strength.
He, the shepherd of souls, felt it his duty to venture upon the valley of the shadow to which he had so often led the trembling candidate of death, with the boldness of a hero in battle. This poor, timid soul, who had never been able to endure the angry barking of a dog, played with the terror of death like a bull-necked gladiator.
"I can hear it in the saddle." "Get down!" repeated the man, a surly, bull-necked fellow. "Come hurry up!" he added. Norton hesitated for an instant, then swung himself out of the saddle and stood in the road confronting the spokesman of the party. "Now, what do you wish to say to me?" he asked. "Just this you keep away from Belle Plain." "You go to hell!" said Norton promptly.
A "rough-neck," it may be essential to explain to those who never ate at the same table with one, is a bull-necked, whole-hearted, hard-headed, cast-iron fellow who can ride the beam of a snorting, rock-tearing steam-shovel all day, wrestle the night through with various starred Hennessey and its rivals, and continue that round indefinitely without once failing to turn up to straddle his beam in the morning.
Then, coming nearer, it solidified into a figure that was, indeed, rather unusually solid. Major Putnam was a bald-headed, bull-necked man, short and very broad, with one of those rather apoplectic faces that are produced by a prolonged attempt to combine the oriental climate with the occidental luxuries.
"How many days do they keep a guy on this job, Happy?" asked a boy with mild blue eyes and a creamy complexion, and reddish curly hair. "Damned if I know, kid; as long as they please, I guess," said the bull-necked man next him, who had a lined prize fighter's face, with a heavy protruding jaw.
Lady Bassett came out and gave the order. A short, bull-necked man, and rather a pretty young woman with a flaunting cap, bestirred themselves getting down the things; and Mr. Salter came out and looked on. Lady Bassett called Mary Wells, and gave her a five-pound note to slip into the man's hand.
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