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He entered the front door with his own latchkey, pressed the button which lighted the stairway and the landing above, and, ascending, went straight to Mr. Compton's office, turned the knob, and opened the door, to find that the interior was dark. "Strange," he thought, "that after sending for me the fellow didn't wait."
They came up with her flushed and panting; and now it was Compton's turn to be shy the lady was so tall and stately too. But Ruperta was not much afraid of anything in petticoats. "Oh, madam," said she, "if you please, may we speak to you?" Mrs. Marsh turned round, and her somewhat aquiline features softened instantly at the two specimens of beauty and innocence that had run after her.
"Where are they?" "They will all be in the safe in Mr. Compton's office." Krovac knitted his brows in thought for several moments. "Say," he said, "we can do the whole thing with one job." "What do you mean?" asked Bince, "We can get rid of this Torrance guy and get the records, too." "How?" asked Bince. "Do you know where Feinheimer's is?" "Yes."
She rose she sat down she walked about with wild energy she dropped on the sofa, and appeared to give it up as impossible; but ere long that deadly languor gave way to impatient restlessness again. At last her quick ear heard a footstep in the corridor, accompanied by no rustle of petticoats, and yet the footstep was not Compton's. Instantly she glanced with momentary terror toward the door.
They made Jimmy sit down in a corner, and while one of them guarded him the other called up central, made his report, and asked for an ambulance and the wagon. Then O'Donnell commenced to examine the room. A moment later he found an automatic behind the door across the room from where Compton's body lay. "Ever see this before?" asked O'Donnell, holding the pistol up to Jimmy.
As Jimmy stepped quickly toward Compton's body and kneeled beside it a man tiptoed quietly up the front stairway, while another, having ascended from the rear, was crossing the outer office with equal stealth. Jimmy felt of Compton's face and hands. They were warm. And then he placed his ear close against the man's breast, in order to see if he could detect the beating of the heart.
These were the first peers that had been burned in the hand, and the democratic Earl of Leicester expresses at the event some satisfaction, and derives from the whole circumstances of the trial comfortable assurance of the power and stability of the Government. The Earl, however, misleads us in one particular. Lord Arundel was Henry Compton's second.
"They are in the outer office which adjoins Mr. Compton's. My desk stands at the right of the door as you enter from the main office. Remove the right-hand lower drawer and you will find the papers lying on the little wooden partition directly underneath the drawer." "All right," said the Lizard; "I'll get them." "Bless you, Lizard," cried the girl. "I knew you would help.
The lieutenant was still asking questions when there came a knock at the door, which was immediately opened, revealing O'Donnell with a young woman, whom he brought inside. "I guess we're getting to the bottom of it," announced the sergeant. "Look who I found workin' over there as Compton's stenographer." "Well, who is she?" demanded the lieutenant. "A jane who used to hang out at Feinheimer's.
The dark body went straight on, stopped a spell at a cluster of reeds, then moved on across, moved by some volition not its own, and not due to the current. "It's very queer, Venning." "It's horrible." Compton's glance came back from the gruesome spectacle to the log, and with a start of surprise he stooped down to pick up something.
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