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"Strike a match." A tiny flare leaped out of the opaque background illuminating the four faces, grotesque and unfamiliar here in the open night. "Let's see. Two, two-thirty no, that's evening. By gad, you won't get a train till five-thirty." Anthony hesitated. "Well," he muttered uncertainly, "we've decided to stay here and wait for it. You two might as well go back and sleep."
This winter the calla was about to bloom. A kind lady had given the bulb to Mrs. Briggs's son, and there was no telling the store he set by it. Topliffe Briggs alias, Top, Senior was an engineer on the great North, East, West and South Railway. He sat at the tea-table with his wife and son at five-thirty one cloudy February afternoon. His next train went out at six-forty-five.
He sat still for a minute or two, expecting to see the door open again, the form of a woman framed in the doorway. But no one came. He began to feel restless. He was not accustomed to be kept waiting by his patients, although he often kept them waiting. There was a bell close to his elbow. He touched it, and his man-servant instantly appeared. "Mrs. Chepstow is down for five-thirty.
Not pausing to worry further over that problem, she hastily scanned the first page of the five-thirty edition of the Times; and her eyes dilated as she read the scare headings: SPENCER'S WILL OFFERED FOR PROBATE Too stunned to move or cry out, Julie stared dumbly at the newspaper. Kathleen Whitney, her kind friend rather than employer, was convicted then her absence had not benefited her?
We were bound to see the fun out, and to fill up the time our president offered a special prize of a handsome bouquet from his gardens, to be shot for by the ladies. Pepton ran to the railroad station, and telegraphed to the champion. This was his message: "You are absolutely needed here. If possible, take the five-thirty train for Ackford. I will drive over for you. Answer."
Only a travelling bag was packed, and Suzanne went willingly enough into the auto and the train, only stipulating one thing that she be allowed to call up Eugene and explain. Both Kinroy and her mother objected, but, when finally she refused flatly to go without, they acceded. She called him up at the office it was four o'clock in the afternoon, and they were leaving at five-thirty and told him.
Then she would again see the dead eyes of young girls as they entered the elevators at five-thirty, and she would rage at all chiefs and bright young men.... A gold-eye-glassed, kitten-stepping, good little thing she was, and competent to assist Mr.
"I shall use discretion," I assured him, "but if it proves that I have fluffed my catch, rely upon me to use extreme measures." "Red Gap needs your best effort," he replied in a voice that brimmed with feeling. At five-thirty, my rush being over, I repaired to the neighbourhood where the Honourable George had been reported.
Sibyl had borrowed the horse; asking them if she might keep it until the next day. She did not say where she was going. She had left about four o'clock. "That will put her at Brian's by nine," said the novelist. "And I will arrive there about the same time," added Aaron King, eagerly. "It's now five-thirty. She has an hour's start; but I'll ride an hour harder."
Marne, sister-wise, as she turned with Varney, "gets his ideas about women from the comic weeklies." They sauntered aft, Peter and Hare in the rear. "Committee meeting at five-thirty?" "Precisely. And by the bye," began Hare.... The candidate, in his tiny frock coat, with pale gray spats and scarf to match, looked overdressed in the brilliant sunshine.
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