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With a hotel telephone girl tact is more important than even the knowledge of wire-knitting. It was the woman's voice which he had heard at the hospital. Captain Cronin was anxious to speak to Mr. Williams, who was calling on Mr. Hepburn! With the biggest jolt of this day of surprises Shirley disconnected and whistled.
Cronin that we enquired for a private house, and... we have hired one at the absurd price of three-halfpence sterling! It has a large grassy yard, very convenient for our horses, We have now only four, with the ass...." However, they were not long at Aintab, for they were summoned before the Governor and accused of selling four Turkish Testaments.
The tell-tale line showed itself in her low white forehead. Fanny Cronin had gone to bed; otherwise they might have dined downstairs in the restaurant, where they would have been sure of meeting people whom Miss Van Tuyn knew. She did not choose to go down and dine alone.
No sooner had the missionary party at length settled down at Bagdad than more trouble fell upon them. Mrs. Cronin, who had suffered almost more from the troubles, discomforts, and dangers of the journey than perhaps her friends guessed, grew worse and worse. She told Mr.
"We've wasted too much time squabbling over that miserable cripple. Let's brace up and make our plans. You are for destroying the mills, eh?" "It's the only thing that will be any use, it seems to me," Cronin replied. "If the mills are blown up, it will not only serve as a warning to the Fernalds but it will mean the loss of a big lot of money.
Cronin and Vincenti, watching closely, saw Dicky Maloney suddenly raise his hat, tear off his shock of red hair, leap up the steps and stand at the side of General Pilar. The Minister of War laid his arm across the young man's shoulders.
Miss Cronin looked startled, and slightly moved her ears, a curious habit which she sometimes indulged in under the influence of sudden emotion, and which was indicative of mental stress. "But if Beryl ever marries," she said, "I might have to give up living in Paris! I might have to go back to America!"
"I know it; but it would be a murther to let such well-reared and decent children into the hands of those poormasters, but especially that Van Stingey, whose great delight is, they say, to convart the children of Catholics to his own sect. See what he done to the little Cronin children, whose father and mother died lately."
Who is he?" "A friend of Dick Garstin, the painter. And so he attracted you?" "I think him certainly most attractive. I should imagine he must have a very kind heart. There is something almost childlike about him, so simple!" "So so you find nothing repellent in him?" "Repellent!" said Miss Cronin, almost with fear. "Do you mean to say then don't you like him?" "I like him well enough.
It was a human impossibility for any one to have covered the distance between the two points in this brief time, except in an aeroplane! Van Cleft wondered dumbly at his companion's excitement. Shirley caught up the telephone again. "Some one says that Cronin is at Bellevue Hospital, injured. I'll find out." It was true.
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