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The next half hour should prove a golden one if well utilized. He was right. Before the inn was cleared, what between Elkin's savage comments and the other men's thinly-veiled allusions, he knew all that Steynholme could tell with regard to Grant and Doris Martin. Grant's first thought next morning was of the girl who had been thrust so prominently into his life by the death of another woman.
On the 1st of April, hearing nothing from Thayer, Steele advanced from Arkadelphia, crossed the Little Missouri at Elkin's Ferry on the 3d, was joined by Thayer on the 6th, and on the 10th had a sharp engagement with an outlying brigade, under Shelby, of Price's army.
"Rather good," he said. "Where did you pick them up?" "At Elkin's." "Indeed. What an unexpected place!" "That's the only way a poor man can get hold of a decent thing nowadays. The dealers grab everything, and sell them as collections." "Art is not in my line, though anyone can see that these are excellent." "Yes.
A couple of stuffed badgers held two wicker stands for sticks and umbrellas, and whips and hunting-crops were ranged on hooks beneath a 12-bore and a rook rifle. A pert maid-servant took Furneaux's card, blanched when she read it, and forgot to close the door of the dining-room. Hence, the detective heard Elkin's gruff comments: "What? That chap? Wants to see me? Not more than I want to see him.
We have rented the store where Elkin's grocery used to be, and we are going to fit it up with cribs, and all the most up-to-date conveniences for a sanitary day-nursery." "Hm! Well, I'll do all I can to help you, of course. I suppose you'll find babies pushin' all over the sidewalk Monday mornin', comin' early to avoid the rush. Better get down as early as possible, Virginia." Virginia departed.
Many emotions chased each other across Fred Elkin's somewhat mean and cruel face while Furneaux rated him in this extraordinary manner. Surprise, wrath, even fear, had their phases. But, dominating all other sensations, was an overpowering indignation at the implied hopelessness of his pursuit of Doris Martin. He literally howled an oath at his torturer. Furneaux was shocked.
As you can read print when it's before your eyes, I needn't go into the matter of motive; Elkin's behavior supplies all details." "How about the knots? Hurry! I hate the feeling of soap drying on my skin." "One running noose and twice two half hitches on each package." "Good! Charles, we're going to pull off a real twister." "We!
"Frivolous?" "Not more than the rest of 'em, sir." "Have you seen her flirting with Elkin?" Robinson took thought. "Now that I come to think of it, she might be given a bit that way. Her father shoes Elkin's nags, so there's a lot of comin' an' goin' between the two places. But folks would always look on it as natural enough. Yes, I've seen 'em together more than once."
Harold Jacoby similarly ascertained the fixity of seventy-five of Rutherfurd's Atlantids, between the epoch 1873 and that of Dr. Elkin's heliometric triangulation of the cluster in 1886, extending the interval to twenty-seven years by subsequent comparisons with plates taken at Lick, September 27, 1900.
"You will have to track her," answered the clerk. "The first place you had better go to is Elkin's drug store, for I saw the woman enter there after leaving here." Mr. Swartz made no reply, but taking up his hat he walked out of his office, and proceeded to the drug store. The druggist, who had noticed the wild and haggard appearance of Mrs.
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