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"Oh PLEASE!" cried the boy, "I do want to get in something real! It will be the making of me!" "Now see here," interposed Thorpe suddenly, "you don't even know my name." "I know YOU," replied the boy. "My name is Harry Thorpe," pursued the other. "My father was Henry Thorpe, an embezzler." "Harry," replied Wallace soberly, "I am sorry I made you say that.
Williams spoke sharply, and his pale blue eyes were suddenly hard and bright. Weeks stared open-mouthed for an instant. "Then you're really not Darwin K. Anthony?" he gasped. "Certainly not. Here's the warrant. I'm sorry this chap is your pal, but " "My pal! Hell, I hate him like the smallpox. Good thing you spoke or I'd have sold you a cocoanut grove. I KNEW he was wrong. Embezzler, eh?
Smith's aversion to the East, his refusal to come East even to his son's graduation; but it was not at all queer that Edgar Farmer, the embezzler, should feel such an aversion, or refuse to visit a locality where, even after all these years, he might be recognized. It was not odd that he disliked to be photographed.
We wondered if, in all our motions, we were betraying the suspicious conduct of the professional embezzler.
Not only he, but all the rest of them, must be made to feel that an embezzler is going to be caught, every time. They all know he's stolen that debt, and they're waiting to see what we're going to do about it. I tell you this so you'll know that it's important." "You want us to catch him?" said Bolton, more as a comment than an inquiry. "Catch him, and catch him alive!" corrected MacDonald.
I am Roscoe Bennett, and my father was Carleton Bennett, the embezzler." I had said it. And the moment afterward I was sorry. I would have given anything to take back the words, but repentance came too late. I had said it. I heard him draw a deep breath. I did not look at him. I did not care to see his face and read on it the disgust and contempt I was sure it expressed. "Humph!" he exclaimed.
Why I should take the trouble to clear myself of a senseless charge? My respect for you inclines me to the belief that you are laboring under a momentary excitement; for when you reflect that I am a prominent, not to say famous, author, you will realize how absurd it is that I should be an embezzler, and why I decline to lower myself by an explanation." Mr.
Braceway's incisive tone whipped Greenleaf to closer attention. "You've an embezzler and murderer in your hands. He admits one crime; I've proved the other. The rest is up to you. Put the irons on him. Throw him into a cell! You'll be proud of it the rest of your life. Here's the warrant." He drew the paper from his hip pocket and tossed it to the chief. "Get busy," he insisted.
You cannot always savor your pleasures cold. So after the disgrace of his father, Harry Thorpe did a great deal of thinking and planning which he kept carefully to himself. He considered in turn the different occupations to which he could turn his hand, and negatived them one by one. Few business firms would care to employ the son of as shrewd an embezzler as Henry Thorpe.
"I am not much afraid of infection," said I, impatiently, "but I have some regard for my character; and if I know a man to be an embezzler of other people's money, be sure of it, I will give him as wide a berth as I can. If he were ill or poor " "Ill or poor!" interrupted the interpreter, with a face of great alarm. "So that's your notion of propriety!
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