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"The last to the right as you leave this door, at the extreme end of the corridor. There are four doors between mine and his. Across the hall from his room you will see an open door. A man sits in there all night long, keeping watch. You could not approach Prince Ugo's door without being seen by that watcher." "You said in your note to Barnes that the er something was in Curtis's study."
She made as light of their accident as possible, but she ended her letter by asking Tom if he would not send her a book about pearl fishing. "Philip Holt has come, Madge," announced Phyllis Alden a few days later. "He is staying at one of the hotels until Mrs. Curtis and Tom arrive to open their cottage. He has already been calling on a number of Mrs. Curtis's friends here.
Even if the State builds you roads, it ain't got no call to make Tasajara Creek navigable for ye; and as that will cost as much as the road, I don't see where the money's comin' from for both." "There's water enough in front of 'Lige Curtis's shanty, and his location is only a mile along the bank," returned Billings.
"Y-yes," she sobbed. "They are there somewhere. B-but, oh dear! I cannot see them now for my tears." Someone dug a joyful thumb into Curtis's ribs. It was the girl's husband. "Gee, it's fine to be home again!" he said huskily.
"Where was the ceremony to take place?" "I I don't know. I left everything in the hands of Monsieur de Courtois." A very real and active doubt of the Frenchman's good faith was beginning to peep up in Curtis's mind.
"I'm quite certain that the most daring and dangerous of all northern spies is in Richmond," said Harry. Then he told Bathurst of Shepard and of the trails that he had seen among the pines behind Curtis's house. "Do you think this man got our map?" asked Bathurst. "It may have been so.
Curtis's fluttering, flurried attentions exasperating every wearied fibre with the very effort to force down fretfulness and impatience, till, when she was left to him, a long space of the lull impressed on her by his presence was needful before he could attempt any of the quiet talk, or brief readings of poetry, by which he tried further to soothe and rest her spirits.
Life of John Adams, by J.T. Morse, Jr.; Life of Alexander Hamilton, by Lodge; Parton's Life of Jefferson; Bancroft, United States; Daniel Webster, Oration on the Death of Adams and Jefferson; Life of John Jay, by Jay, Flanders, and Whitelocke; Fiske's Critical Period of American History; Sparks' Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution; Rives' Life of Madison; Curtis's History of the Constitution; Schouler's History of the United States; McMaster's History of the People of the United States; Von Holst's Constitutional History; Pitkin's History of the United States; Horner's Life of Samuel Adams, Magruder's Marshall.
The doubling of the subscription price to one dollar per year had materially checked the income for the time being; the huge advertising bills, sometimes exceeding three hundred thousand dollars a year, were difficult to pay; large credit had to be obtained, and the banks were carrying a considerable quantity of Mr. Curtis's notes. But Mr.
Curtis and Tom not coming on to Cape May as soon as we expected them, isn't it?" remarked Phil, resting for half a moment from the strain of the steady pulling at her oars. "I hope they will arrive soon, before we have the responsibility of entertaining Mrs. Curtis's friend, Philip Holt.
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