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Bundercombe continued cheerfully, "have come round to blackmail me." "Sir!" Captain Bannister exclaimed, with a great show of anger. "Mr. Bundercombe!" the person called Mr. Cheape echoed. They made rather a poor show of it, however. Mr. Bundercombe, wholly unperturbed by their righteous indignation, smiled still benignly upon them. "Come, come!" he expostulated. "This is a business interview.
"Just this," Mr. Cullen explained: "I ran my man to ground in a place where I wouldn't be seen except professionally and with him was Mr. Bundercombe." "They were not engaged," I asked quickly, "in any lawbreaking escapade at the time, I trust!" Mr. Cullen shook his head reassuringly. "Rodwell only goes in for the very big coups," he said.
I am giving the farmers a free lunch slap-up affair it's going to be, I can tell you!" "I am afraid," I answered, with a wholly wasted sarcasm, "that the affair has gone too far now for us to consider an alteration in the date." "Well, well! We must try not to clash," Mr. Bundercombe said magnanimously. "How long does the voting go on?" "From eight until eight," I told him. Mr.
Bundercombe in an Okata dressmaker's conception of a tailor-made gown in some hard, steel-ray material, and a hat whose imperfections were perhaps mercifully hidden by a veil, which, instead of providing a really reasonable excuse for its existence by concealing some portion of Mrs. Bundercombe's features, streamed down behind her nearly to her feet.
He was most carefully dressed and carried in his hand a long paper parcel that could contain nothing but flowers. Upon some excuse I prevailed upon Eve to cross the road. There was one small brass plate only on the side of the entrance through which Mr. Bundercombe had disappeared. It was scarcely larger than my hand and on it was engraved in very elegant characters: BLANCHE MANICURE.
"No, you don't!" Mrs. Bundercombe prohibited. "I've a good deal more to say yet. I haven't been dragged over the ocean three thousand miles to have you all slip away directly I arrive. A nice state of things indeed! My husband, Joseph H. Bundercombe, a suspect at Scotland Yard, followed everywhere by detectives; and my daughter " "Stepdaughter, please," Eve interrupted.
I've promised to do what I can to help him." I was a little taken aback. "You're not in earnest!" I exclaimed. "Dead earnest!" Mr. Bundercombe regretted. "The chap's convinced me. I feel it's up to me to lend him a hand." "But surely," I expostulated, "even if you cannot see your way clear to help me, there's no need for you to go over to the enemy like this!
We followed him into a little room at the back of the shop. He was trembling all over. "No questions asked?" Mr. Bundercombe insisted. "Not the shadow of one!" the manager agreed. "I don't care if pardon me, sir if you stole them yourself! The loss of those jewels would do the firm more harm than I can explain to you." Mr. Bundercombe turned toward me and I produced the case.
"I wish you a pleasant journey, Mrs. Bundercombe," I said, raising my hat. "I suppose I shall find Eve in?" "No doubt you will!" she snapped. I glanced at the depressed young woman. "I am taking a temporary secretary with me," Mrs. Bundercombe explained. "Recent reports of my speeches in this country have been so unsatisfactory that I have lost confidence in the Press.
It was perfectly clear to me that Luigi knew all about us. He addressed Mr. Bundercombe with an air of deep respect in which was visible, too, an air of relieved apprehension. He took our order himself, with the aid of an assistant maitre d'hotel, at whom Mr. Bundercombe glanced with some surprise. "Where is Louis?" he inquired. "Gone left!" Luigi answered. Mr.
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