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Curtis's prompt admission was more favorable to his cause than he could possibly realize then, though he had seen that the detective's extraordinarily brilliant eyes were fixed on the garment's blood-stained sleeve. "And have you learnt the owner's name?" went on Steingall quietly. "Yes, that is, I believe so, owing to a document I found in one of the pockets." "Ah, what was that?"
She and Phil were dressing for Tom Curtis's sailing party, to which he had invited them the day before and which was to start within the next hour. "Almost any mother is pretty nice, even if she isn't rich or beautiful," answered Phil loyally. She was wearing a yachting suit of navy blue while Madge was dressed in white serge.
Afterward, while we lay in camp, they were made a source of much amusement. The cock-fights that took place in General Curtis's army would have done honor to Havana or Vera Cruz. Before we captured them the birds were the property of the officers of a Louisiana regiment. We gave them the names of the Rebel leaders.
Smith's cavalry command was moving southward on an expedition against the Kiowas and Comanches in the Canadian River country, when I joined it as a scout. Dick Curtis, acting as guide for Smith, had been sent on ahead across the river, while the main command stopped to water their horses. Curtis's orders were to proceed straight ahead for five miles, where the troops would camp.
Our party is thus reduced to sixteen souls, leaving a total barely exceeding half the number of those who embarked on board the "Chancellor" at Charleston. Curtis's first care had been to take a strict account of the remnant of our provisions.
Although she was only a young girl, she realized that love does not amount to very much in this world unless it has faith and sympathy behind it. So long as she had done nothing she knew to be wrong, and for which she should make an apology, she could only wait to see if Mrs. Curtis's affection would be restored to her or cease altogether.
The young Italian, as his employer soon found, was quick to grasp a situation and could be relied upon to fulfil instructions to the letter and without blundering. Such a person was of inestimable value during those days of convalescence. So it came about that Giusippe spent less and less of his time in his own department in the glass works and more and more in Mr. Curtis's private office.
Curtis's secretary usually joins us here for coffee. He has his dinner with my brother and then, poor man, comes in for a brief period of relaxation. When my brother is in one of his bad spells poor Mr. Loeb doesn't have much time to himself. It seems to me that my brother is at his best when his health is at its worst. You may be interested to know, Mr.
Somehow, the fact had escaped Curtis's remembrance; excellent though his topographical sense might be, he was still sufficient of a stranger in New York not to appreciate the bearings of particular localities with the prompt discrimination necessarily displayed by the policeman. During the succeeding few seconds none of the occupants of the limousine spoke.
But he had the presence of mind to waive aside Curtis's allegations as unworthy of discussion. "I address myself to you," he said to Steingall. "Have I made my request clear, or shall I repeat it?" "Have you any objection to answering a few questions, my lord?" said the detective. "None whatsoever." "When did you and Count Vassilan arrive in New York?" "At twenty minutes after eight to-night."
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