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I recollect that poor Fant was with as very distinctly, and that he rendered very efficient service after we got to the 'Crater' in ferreting out hidden Federals, who had taken shelter there, and who, for the most part, seemed very loath to leave their biding places. I feel quite confident that Capt.
He came near to perceiving and understanding what was in her mind what had been there as she watched Quisanté sleeping. The first suggestion of ferreting out something had come from him, purely in the way of a cynical jeer, just because nobody would ever suspect him of seriously contemplating or taking part in such a thing.
Ferreting murder!" cried the visitor irritably. "Oh," said Garrison, "if you wish to employ me on a murder case, I'll do the best I can." "You worked out the Biddle robbery?" queried Mr. Wicks. Garrison replied that he had. The Biddle robbery was the Lochlan case his first adventure in criminology. "Take the case!" commanded Mr. Wicks in his truculent manner.
Deer need attention in winter, like cattle; the game has its watchers; and ferreting lasts for months. So that the forest is not altogether useless from the point of view of work. But in so many hundred acres of trees these labourers are lost to sight, and do not in the least detract from its wild appearance.
"Perhaps; and a very pleasant kingdom, too, as I remember it, when a hot, thirsty, tired laddie, who had been fishing or ferreting, was taken into the cool, moist, darkened place, and saw a dish of milk creamed for his benefit by some sonsy housewife.
My liking for the life, however, and my interest in the unravelling of mysterious crimes, proved too strong, and I joined the Detective Staff in Melbourne, seeing in their service a good deal of queer life and ferreting out not a small number of extraordinary cases.
However, when a man has devoted his life to ferreting out information, the habit of ferreting is apt to be very strong upon him; so I pass the time of day to my fancy-stationer, and then begins to ferret. 'Madame Durski, at Hilton House yonder, is an uncommonly handsome woman, I throw out, by way of an opening. 'Uncommonly, replies my fancy-stationer, by which I perceive he knows her.
Dodge's companion had bidden him good-by as the engine started, and Jesse's task now became that of ferreting out Dodge's destination.
'Rats is best, and a good riddance. 'Five to ten shillings a couple, repeated Justin. 'I have only got two, if that. What are you good for, Archie? 'Precious little, the younger boy replied. 'And I don't know that I care about 'You are a muff, said Justin crossly, 'a muff and a turncoat. You were hotter upon ferreting than I was.
A strong man must drink now and then: but he was not a sot, and took nine-tenths of his money faithfully home to his wife and children. In the winter when farm work is not so pressing he was allowed a week off now and then, which he spent in ferreting for the farmers, and sometimes for Luke, and of course he was only too glad to get such an engagement as we gave him.
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