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Altogether the examination of the trunk a process which occupied three hours established nothing definite, save that there was nothing to be discovered. Its results were hopelessly negative. Meanwhile the city sizzled with gossip of the Warren murder.
By the light of the lantern swinging from the roof he found three men huddled over the range, the picture of utter misery. He took down the lantern. "Here, cook, hold this please, one moment. Allow me to look at your throats, men." "Dis de docteur, men," said the cook. A quick glance he gave at each throat, his face growing more stern with each examination. "Boys, you must all get to bed at once.
You see his name on the tins." The man recognized the name, and at once desisted in his examination. Then to the two police officers who came to his side, he explained: "The American gentleman inside is an invalid, going to Turin to Professor Landrini. He wants to get off at once, for he has a long journey over the Alps." The French agent of police grunted suspiciously.
There was an air of mystery about a Quarterly Examination. It made one uneasy before the actual thing came, while the uncertainty concerning it was trying to the nerves. The day before Examination, Miss Jenny told every little girl to clear out her desk and carry all her belongings home. Then she went around and looked in each desk, for not a scrap of paper even must remain.
In January, 1855, as many as seventy of the converts, after careful examination, were allowed to partake; and once every four months the privilege was renewed, with an accession of from twelve to thirty communicants each time. These were occasions of unusual interest.
What young Master Joseph Putnam undertook to do, he was apt to do pretty thoroughly. When he had once made up his mind to keep both his brother's wife and his brother himself, away from the examination, he had rapidly thought over various plans, and adopted two which he felt pretty certain would not fail.
"Well, Joe," said Crewe, as the boy entered on the heels of Stork, "I have a job for you this morning. I want you to find the glove corresponding to this one." Crewe, having finished his examination of the glove, handed it to the boy, whose first act was to slip it on his left hand and move his fingers about to assure himself that they were in good working order in spite of being hidden.
But having an affection for his master, and a conscience likewise, though he was but a heathen, he brought the bottle straight to the intended victim; and the Obeah-man was now in durance vile, awaiting further examination, and probably on his way to a felon's cell.
"Didn't they find your nephew Joseph?" "No, it was not that. It was the Judge. He went off to his dinner, and took his time about it! Finally, at midnight, they had another examination. Behold all four of us before the Judge! The man with the muffler, myself, my brother and Joseph.
To the last, the images and the rebellions which were burned into his soul at Grimstad were presented over and over again to his readers. But the necessity of facing the examination at Christiania now presented itself. He was so busily engaged in the shop that he had, as he says, to steal his hours for study.
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