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He began shaking it in Gard's eyes, insisting once more on wagering it that his American friend could not pick the card. With the demi-tasses and cigars he ordered the deck and table. He started the game, having locked out the blockhead of a waiter and dropped the key into his own pocket. Gard would not play. His ire was rising. The small German declared himself mistreated.
Gard strove to reconstruct the crime as the next entrant would judge it the thief gliding in by the window; the collector busy over the examination of his curios; the blow, probably only intended to stun; the hasty theft and stealthy exit.
After all this the Emperour came into the Parliament house which was richly decked: there he was placed in his royall seat adorned as before: his 6. crownes were set before him vpon a table; the basin, and ewer royall of gold held by his knight of gard with his men standing two on each, side in white apparell of cloth of siluer, called Kindry, with scepters, and battle axes of gold in their hands: the Princes, and nobilitie were all placed according to their degrees, all in their rich roabs.
"We've all had enough to think about for one day. To-morrow we will see what is to be done." "Too much!" croaked one old crone, who had something of a reputation among her neighbours. "What I want to know is who killed Peter Mauger?" And that was the question that occupied most minds in Sark that night. The Doctor insisted on taking care of Gard.
The fourth day were planted vnder the gard of the cloister two demy-canons, and two coluerings against the towne, defended or gabbioned with a crosse wall, thorow the which our battery lay; the first and second fire whereof shooke all the wall downe, so as all the ordinance lay open to the enemy, by reason whereof some of the Canoniers were shot and some slaine.
The Pont du Gard, which we were not long in visiting, is seen to the greatest advantage on the side on which we approached it from the inn.
We got the doctor from the asylum here as quickly as possible. He's with her in there now." The attorney sat silent a moment, nodding his head slowly. "I'll see her, Gard," he said at length. "This is a strange story," he added, as Brencherly disappeared into the anteroom.
It was but a thin strip of a moon that had risen above the evening mists a mere sickle of red gold but such as it was it sufficed to lift the pall of darkness from the earth and set the black sky back into its proper place. To Gard the night had suddenly become spacious and ample, and the peaceful slip of a moon, which grew paler and brighter every minute, was full of promise.
The morning of the fifth day since Mrs. Marteen's departure found Gard in early consultation in the directors' room of his Wall Street office, facing a board of directors with but one opinion he must go at once to Washington. Strangely enough, the plan met with stubborn resistance from his inner self. There was every reason for his going, but he did not want to go.
At the sound of the chairs a boy of fourteen came quietly in and slipped into his seat. His sister had gone off with a portion on a plate through the open door. Gard was surprised to find himself hoping it was not her custom to take her meals in private, and was relieved when she came back presently without the plate and sat down by her brother.
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