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Ede burst into the room. 'I knew what it would be, she said, shutting the door after her. 'What is it? said Kate, looking up frightened. 'Well, I offered to do him a chop or some fried eggs, but he says he must have an omelette. Did you ever hear of such a thing? I told him I didn't know how to make one, but he said that I was to ask you if you could spare the time.
The trap works. I tried it this afternoon with the small chisel." Long Ede lit his pipe tied down the ear-pieces of his cap, lifted a light ladder off its staples, and set it against a roof-beam: then, with the guns under his arm, quietly mounted. His head and shoulders wavered and grew vague to sight in the smoke-wreaths. "Heard anything more?" he asked. "Nothing since," answered the Snipe.
Ede likes, I shall be only too happy to do some singing with her; and, between you and me, I think that in a few lessons I could get rid of that throatiness, and show her how to get a note or two from the chest. 'I'm sure you could, my boy; and I shall be delighted with you if you will. Of course we must consider it as a matter of business.
Oke! if you win, it'll do me no good. She" meaning his wife "has gone to a land where I'll never be able to crow over her." "Your Worship makes sure, I see, that we women are going to be beat?" put in Sal. "Tut-tut!" says the Mayor. "They've booked Seth Ede for stroke." And with that he goes very red in the gills and turns to Landlord Oke. "But perhaps I oughtn't to have mentioned that?" says he.
But he took no heed; his attention was too entirely occupied by his breath to think either of her or of the necessity of sending for the police, and he waved his mother away when she attempted to speak to him. 'Are those men going to stop there all night? Mrs. Ede asked. 'Oh, I really don't know; I'm too tired to bother about it any more, replied Kate petulantly.
Ede would never be able to get on with Hender, and even if she did, neither of them knew enough of dressmaking to keep the business going, and she asked herself sorrowfully: 'What will become of them? They would not be able to live upon what they sold in the shop that was a mere nothing. Poor Ralph's dreams of plate-glass and lamps! Where were they now? Mrs.
Turn them all loose but one." "And what shall I do with him?" "Hum! Put a post up in your own tent." "Yes." "Tie him to it in his handcuffs. Give him food enough." "And when shall we loose him?" "At noon, to-morrow." "It shall be done! but you must come and show me which of the four it is." Robinson went with Ede and his men. "Turn this one loose," said he; it was done on the instant. "And this."
'Will he never speak and let me go? she asked herself. At last he did speak, and his words fell upon her like blows. 'I don't know what you mean, Mrs. Ede, he said in a loud, commanding voice. 'I made no agreement with you that I wasn't to bring friends home with me in the evening. Had I known that I was taking lodgings in a church I wouldn't have come.
"I'll probably end there. And I don't much care." Mabel gave her a good talking to about that. Her early training had been in a church which regarded self-destruction as a cardinal sin. Then business acumen asserted itself: "He'll probably put you on somewhere. He's crazy about you, Ede." But Edith was not listening.
Ede usually took in the lodger's hot water, it not being considered quite right for Kate to go into a gentleman's room when he was in bed. But the next morning Mrs. Ede was out and Ralph was asleep, so there was nothing for it but to fill the jug. Dick heard the door open, but didn't trouble to look round, thinking it was Mrs.
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