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He was fuming with rage, and when he saw that they were driving into the prison yard, he gathered all his strength, knocked the revolver out of the deputy's hand, and stunned one of the detectives with a blow of his fist. But ten men came crowding round the doors. Resistance was useless. He understood this, and his rage increased.
That morning, when he had spoken in the gruff accents of one of the rabble, no suspicion had entered the Deputy's mind that he was other than he seemed, for all that he now recalled how Tardivet had found the fellow's patriotism a little too patriotic. Now that he spoke in the voice that was naturally usual to him, it seemed to La Boulaye that it contained a note that he had heard before.
Deputy's deputy now rose, and with an affected solemnity, ordered the old man to withdraw, and reconsider his verdict. He replied, "I sha'nt reconsider my verdict! I have given one verdict, and I sha'nt give any other!" Deputy.
Merlin had been sent to search the Deputy's house for proofs of the latter's guilt. And Merlin had come back empty-handed. The arrest of a female aristo the probable mistress of Deroulede, who obviously had denounced him was but small compensation for the failure of the more important capture.
"What are you?" I asked. "I'm the depity," he answered. I saw at once that I was on the right track. Phonetic spelling had again misled me. A half crown tip put the deputy's knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Mr. Bloxam, who had slept off the remains of his beer on the previous night at Corcoran's, had left for his work at Poplar at five o'clock that morning.
"Never before," wrote Sussex, "durst Scot or Irishman look Englishman in the face in plain or wood since I came here"; but Shane fired his men with a new courage, and charging the Deputy's army with a force hardly half its number drove it back in rout on Armagh.
"Looks like our friend the bad man was onto his job all right," was the deputy's only comment when Alan had finished. "I'll bet he's making his getaway into the hills mighty immediate," chuckled Baker. "He can't find a bank in the mountainside to deposit that gold any too soon to suit him." "Sho! I'll bet he ain't worried a mite.
Suggs ended the interview by saying she always thought Simon would come to a bad end, and slammed the door in the deputy's face. The Deputy Sheriff passed the night at a friend's, and the next morning retraced his steps, making inquiries along the road at the different plantations, endeavoring to get some trace of Simon.
During the course of the meal, and again when it was over, they spoke of the business that lay before Dale on the morrow. "I've ventured to tell your husband that perhaps he has been taking it all too seriously." "Oh, has he? I'm so glad to hear you say it." And Mavis Dale, with her elbows on the table, leaned forward and watched the deputy's face intently. "Too much of the personal equation."
To make France a commonwealth! Well! be it so! But before I advise the King to such a step, or give my consent to it, they shall bury me under the ruins of the monarchy. "'But what answer, said I, 'does Your Majesty wish me to return to the deputy's request for a private audience? "'What answer? exclaimed the Queen. No answer at all is the best answer to such a presumptuous proposition!
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