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"And that's another reason for taking him first. We can hustle that schooner up all evening; but when the consulate's shut, it's shut." To that large and unaristocratic hostelry we drove, and addressed ourselves to a large clerk, who was chewing a toothpick and looking straight before him. "Captain Jacob Trent?" "Gone," said the clerk. "Where has he gone?" asked Pinkerton.
The government value of a collonato is twenty piastres; in general exchange it is reckoned at twenty-two, and at the consulate's at twenty-one piastres. September 7th. At eight o'clock in the morning I betook myself on board the French steam-packet Eurotas, a beautiful large vessel of 160-horse power. At nine o'clock we weighed anchor. The weather was very unfavourable.
The excellent young men on the staff, though willing to help me, belonged to a sphere of the white colony for which that sort of Johnson does not exist. Their suggestion was that I should hunt the man up myself with the help of the Consulate's constable an ex-sergeant-major of a regiment of Hussars.
Munjoy says that on this circumstance hinges the Russian Consulate's whole case. They are obliged to prove that a definite person was killed; and it seems that the consulate paid the passage of the victim's father to this country, so that he might testify before the United States Commissioner. I understand that the old man, who by the way is a Rabbi, arrived last week. Mr.
But one of the boys in your party strayed away ... went to another saloon and had a few more drinks ... and someone stuck him with a knife in the short ribs ... he's in the hospital." "But can't Captain Schantze pick up another man right away?" "The consulate's closed till ten to-morrow morning.
"And that's another reason for taking him first. We can hustle that schooner up all evening; but when the consulate's shut, it's shut." To that large and unaristocratic hostelry we drove, and addressed ourselves to a large clerk, who was chewing a toothpick and looking straight before him. "Captain Jacob Trent?" "Gone," said the clerk. "Where has he gone?" asked Pinkerton.
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