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It astonished him, independent young Northerner as he was, to hear a full- grown man confess that his mother's' apron-strings still held him up, but he made no comment. "Why not try both?" he cried. "There's a place in the school alongside of me we'll work together nights. It won't interfere with what you do downtown.
She longed to tell him what was in her heart, but all speech failed. "Don't!" she exclaimed. "Don't! I will not have you." A little later, as they were returning toward the carriages, Lloyd, after a moment's deliberation upon the matter, said: "Can't I set you down somewhere near your rooms? Let your carriage go." He shook his head: "I've just given up my downtown rooms.
I had to take her clear downtown and buy her ice cream and things before she could understand the gravity of the case at all No, indeed, Miss Allstairs, I didn't bribe her. You must be very careful about charging people with bribery. Bribery is a very serious offense. It's so serious that nowadays it's a very grave thing to charge a politician with it. I think it will be made a crime soon.
But Carroll refused to arrest the man. He knew that Leverage disapproved, but he also knew that Leverage was sportsman enough to let him handle the case in his own way. On one of his long strolls through the downtown section of the city daily walks which helped him to think connectedly David Carroll felt a hand on his arm and heard an eager feminine voice in his ear: "Gracious goodness!
Instead he had walked downtown a long way and THEN turned in to cross the fields and work his way back. Annabel put down the glass and, heedless of her father's calls, sat thinking. The minister had deliberately deceived her. More than that, he had gone to considerable trouble to avoid observation. Why had he done it? Had he done the same thing on other Sunday afternoons?
You mentioned a key, not keys, in all your answers to my questions." "There were two; I didn't weigh my words. I needed both and I took both." "Which of the two hung foremost?" "I didn't notice." "You took both?" "Yes, I took both." "And went straight out with them?" "Yes, to the stable." "And then where?" "Through the adjoining grounds downtown." "You are sure you went through Mr.
"No, indeed; I know you are in excellent hands," smiled Miss Williams, and the two girls went on their way. The walk "downtown" was delightful, for the evening was balmy and fragrant with unfolding flowers and foliage. Arriving at Madam Alberti's, they found her fashionable rooms filled with customers, and were obliged to wait sometime before Miss Minot could be served.
"There's a man out east bin awfully cut up in a mowin'-machine," said he, glancing up at Miss Custer sideways from under his broad-brimmed straw hat, sure that she would appreciate the news, he being the first to tell it; for he had a boyish conceit that Miss Custer had a very high opinion of him, and even indulged the fancy that if he were a man say twenty-one instead of a youth of seventeen, he could cut out all them downtown fellers that hung round her.
"Everything's all ready," Gyp tapped across to Pat Everett, and Pat, nodding mysteriously, pulled from her pocket the corner of a pale blue envelope. Directly after the close of school Gyp and Pat, with Jerry and Peggy Lee close at their heels, to bolster their courage, walked briskly downtown to the Morse Building.
In every office of the downtown district merchant, banker, broker, lawyer, man of commerce or finance was not every busy brain plotting not self-preservation but pillage and sack plotting to increase the cost of living for the masses of men by slipping a little tax here and a little tax there onto the cost of everything by which men live?
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