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Updated: April 30, 2025
She pulled the check-cord, and herself gave the order, "To Brown's hotel." Count Tristan paid no attention to the command. The hotel was quickly reached; the carriage stopped; Maurice descended and handed out his father. "Let me hear good news of you," said Madeleine to Count Tristan, encouragingly, and kept her seat.
They entered the carriage and the coachman drove in the usual direction; but the count exclaimed impatiently, "No no that's not the way! stop him! stop him!" Maurice, at a loss to comprehend his father's wishes, did not immediately comply with his request, and the count, with unusual energy, himself caught at the check-cord and pulled it vehemently.
She looked after it and sighed. Lucille gave a little start of amazement as she realised that she was not alone in the brougham. She reached out for the check-cord, but a strong hand held hers. "My dear Lucille," a familiar voice exclaimed, "why this alarm? Is it your nerves or your eyesight which is failing you?" Her hand dropped. She turned towards him. "It is you, then, Prince!" she said.
"Telling the driver to take us back to the station," I answered, with my hand on the check-cord. "I don't know about doing that just now. There might be some awkward explanations to make to your hypothetical owner. Or, failing him, to the police." "It doesn't absolutely follow," he continued, "that there is an owner or that he is anxious to claim and recover his property.
Evidently we will have to go and find out for ourselves." He pulled the check-cord and gave the driver the new direction. Pure foolishness, of course, but Indiman was not to be put out of his humor. Up one flight of stairs to a large, low-ceilinged hall that was jammed to suffocation.
Under check-cord and spike-collar he would become a fast and stylish dog, clean-cut in his bird work, perhaps a field-trial winner. He would learn to take reproof amiably, to "heel" at a word, to respect the whistle at any distance, to be steady to shot and wing, to retrieve promptly from land or water, and never to bolt or range beyond control or be guilty of false pointing.
Sandford; mechanically his hand went to the inside breast-pocket of his over-coat; he drew out the package of legal papers bearing Mr. Sandford's name. "But but," he stammered, "I don't understand I left these in your box at the safe-deposit company." "To be sure you did," answered Indiman, coolly. He pulled the check-cord. "Drive back to the safe deposit," he called to the hackman.
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