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And in the next breath: "I want to die I don't want to live!" The hands of the little watch pointed to eight-thirty when at last she lay quiet, with closed eyes. Sidney, tiptoeing to the door, was brought up short by her name again, this time in a more normal voice: "Sidney." "Yes, dear." "Perhaps you are right and I'm going to get over this." "Certainly you are.
There were a lot of people around, and I haven't the most distant notion of the guilty party." "What does it mean?" Jeckley shook his head. "What will you do about it?" "I will make the call, of course." "Of course!" "There maybe a story there who knows. Besides, it's directly on my way to the Globe, and the curtain is not until eight-thirty.
Roland looked round the room excitedly. The spirit of romance gripped him. There were many ladies present, for this particular restaurant was a favorite with artistes who were permitted to "look in" at their theaters as late as eight-thirty. None of them looked particularly self-conscious, yet one of them had sent him this quite unsolicited tribute. He tore open the envelope.
It's all up with my vacation and the yachting cruise now," he looked at his watch, "seven; I can get the eight-thirty accommodation to Hallsport, and that will give me time to catch the Eastern express." "Hold on a minute and I'll get your trap from the stable it's all ready for you." "No, I'll get it myself good-bye, Tave, I'm off." "Good-bye, Champney."
"At least," remarks Old Hickory, "I suppose it is something to provide a source of innocent merriment. I trust we are not overlooking anyone who might wish to be amused." Before the evenin' was over he had his answer. About eight-thirty out comes a fast motor-boat and ties up alongside without askin' leave. Reporters, two of 'em.
She had evidently left on the eight-o'clock train for Chicago, and it was now eight-thirty. There was nothing to be done. What a fool he had been to go on hoping and daring! She had told him again and again that she didn't care for him; but she had also told him that she did not intend to many anybody.
Under the heading 'Hanged in Carroll County, I read an item beginning, 'At eight-thirty, A.M., last Friday the soul of Martin G. Buckley, dressed in a neat-fitting suit of black, with a low collar and black cravat, was ushered into the presence of his God. Pardon me, but do we not find here, if we read closely, an attempt to blend the material with the spiritual with a result that we can only designate as infelicitous?"
The dreadful death of the unlucky beater, shot in the thicket like a wild animal, had seemed to him to pre-figure death for himself also. He had nearly swooned at what Lord Henry had said in a chance mood of cynical jesting. At five o'clock he rang his bell for his servant and gave him orders to pack his things for the night-express to town, and to have the brougham at the door by eight-thirty.
He sat up, leaning back heavily, and with a struggle collected his thoughts. Katherine joked with him, and fussed over him with a maternal solicitude that made the Captain smile. At eight-thirty, as Porter was sipping another cup of coffee, the corporal appeared. "A man says he's got to see Mr. Porter, sir. A Mr. McNally." "McNally," cried Porter, starting up only to sink back, breathing heavily.
You might come in about eight-thirty. I'm reading a French novel that Mary objects to. She read it, and told me I mustn't. Unless some one talks to her she'll talk to me. Would you mind dropping in so I can get at the book?" She held out her hand. "Our bargain," he said, gravely. "I can no longer hold to it. Do you release me?" "Release you?" She strangled the sudden sob in her throat.
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