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Updated: April 30, 2025
After these three, Matthew Hollis was called, and the man whom I had watched upon the quay presented himself. He told, in fair though foreign-sounding Italian, a plain story. He had been an engine-fitter, and had worked in France and Italy. He was settled down in business on his own account in Naples, and on the day to which his story related had work to do at Posilipo.
The very night he had first landed at Gibraltar, there happened to be a ball to which he went with a friend, who was also just landed, and a stranger. It was the custom to draw lots for partners. His friend, a true-born Englishman, took fright at the foreign-sounding name of the lady who fell to his lot Mowbray changed tickets with him, and had, he said, great reason to rejoice.
"So you came to have tea," she repeated at the close, in her quaintly inflected, foreign-sounding English. "And you stay because of the plague? So?" "But I wrote I wrote to my friends and " "And gave him the letters!" "But I had a letter from my friends or a telegram rather." Arlee knitted her brows in furious thought. "And it sounded like her."
Maybe you will stumble across one that you recognize as the right one." Lloyd shook her head. "No, it was an unusual name, a long foreign-sounding one. I wondahed at the time how she could trip it off her tongue so easily." "Then we're lost! Hopelessly, helplessly undone!" moaned Gay. "All our lovely outing spoiled! You won't get to see the books, nor I the violin.
At the end of twenty minutes' scratching, she felt resistance cease before the nail-point. Hastily she withdrew it, lest it should pierce too far; and stretched on the floor she listened with her ear to the aperture on her side of the wall. "I wish Chuff would come, and get it over!" she heard Churn sigh aloud, in his sweet, foreign-sounding voice. "I wonder why he went out?" said Kit.
If she said that he hadn't, the man at the telephone might end the conversation before she had learned enough to help Angel. "I'll try hedging," she decided, and began again with a tentative "Hello!" For an instant there was no response, and Clo was sick with fear lest she had been cut off. But luck was with her. The foreign-sounding voice began again: "Well, is Pete there this time?"
But it was only for a moment. Clo stood, with her ear at the receiver still, when a loud bang on the door made her jump as though she had been shot. The door knob turned. "You little devil!" shrilled Kit's voice. "You thief! I know you're there. Wait till I catch you!" "Hello!" spoke a foreign-sounding voice through the 'phone the voice of a woman. "Hello! Yes, this is Mrs. Sands' flat.
So confidently had she expected to hear the same foreign-sounding accents that she almost dropped the receiver and started away when her "Hello!" was answered by a strange voice. Yet was it a strange voice? As it went on to ask: "Is this Mr. Peterson?" Clo had a strong impression that she had heard the voice before.
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