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When I mentioned the purser, who seemed to have been watching me earlier in the night, and again was sitting in the smoking room when the eavesdropper fled past, Carter looked startled. "Johnson is all right, Gregg." "Does he know anything about this Grantline affair?" "No no," said Carter hastily. "You haven't mentioned it, have you?" "Of course I haven't.
After these communications Blomberg hoped to be able to mention the important events which had occurred in Ratisbon during his young friend's absence; but Wolf desired with such eager curiosity to hear the syndic's news first that it vexed the captain, and he angrily told him that he would bite off his tongue before he would even say "How are you?" to that man, and to play eavesdropper to any one was not at all in his line.
"What the foul fiend do you mean? I never heard such a cock-and-bull story in all my life!" "Nor I. But it is true, nevertheless. Listen: On the night following the dinner-party I did the meanest action of my life. I played eavesdropper. I listened at Mollie's door. All for your sake, my dear Guy." "Yes?" said Guy, with an incredulous smile. "I listened," pursued Mrs.
By her constant association of the eyes with the disliked face of her brother's servant, she had unconsciously reached the conclusion that she had all along recognized the eavesdropper as Thalassa. "You say your brother was talking about some family matters at the time?" asked Inspector Dawfield, as she related that part of her story. "Yes," responded Mrs. Pendleton.
"She's an eavesdropper and a mischief-maker. She " "Mrs. Weatherbee knows all about me," coolly informed Elsie. "She knows, too, that I'm done with all that. You needn't deny that the pin and ring weren't there yesterday. I saw them. You may have put them somewhere else by now, though." "Will you please not interrupt me?"
Thrown out of his honourable employment in England, through too much unsuccessful hard swearing there not because he was not wanted there; our English reasons for vaunting our superiority to secrecy and spies are of very modern date he knew that he had crossed the Channel, and accepted service in France: first, as a tempter and an eavesdropper among his own countrymen there: gradually, as a tempter and an eavesdropper among the natives.
My eyes, teeth, and chest satisfied him; and then, like a loathly eavesdropper, he listened at my heart. I was afraid my nervousness would cause some irregular action of the detestable organ that would finally down me in his eyes. "All right, get dressed," he said; and, having put his stethoscope away, he wrote something on two printed Army Forms and sealed them.
Late as it was, he picked up the detective receiver of the mechanical eavesdropper and held it to his ears, listening intently several moments. "There's someone in the garage, all right," he exclaimed. "I can hear sounds as if he were moving about among the cars. It must be the garage keeper himself the one they call the Boss.
Somebody was evidently peering now through the keyhole, and realising this fact the spirit of attack entered into the heart of the beleaguered man. Raising aloft his right hand he brought it suddenly down with a resounding crash upon the panel of the door next the keyhole a crash that, to the crouching eavesdropper, must have seemed like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.
The repast was nearly over, when Dick looking up, his keen eyes discovered a figure stealing along under the shadow of the arcade on the opposite side of the court. "Hallo! There's an eavesdropper of some sort. We must capture him, and ask him what he wants," he exclaimed, starting up.
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