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Updated: June 2, 2025
The impatient Italian was urging Goslin to explain why the meeting had been so hastily summoned when, without warning, the door opened and a tall, distinguished man, with carefully trained grey moustache, and wearing a heavy travelling ulster, entered. "Ah, my dear Baron!" cried the Italian, jumping from his chair and taking the new-comer's hand, "we were waiting for you."
As he paced the big room, with its dark-green walls, its Turkey carpet, and sombre furniture, his companions regarded him in wonder. They instinctively knew that he had some news of importance to impart. There was one absentee. Until his arrival Goslin refused to say anything.
They will be sold to the Ministry of Finance in Petersburg, and I shall be ruined ruined!" "Not only you will be ruined!" remarked the man from Hamburg, "but our control of the market will be at an end." "And together we lose over three million roubles," said Goslin in as quiet a voice as he could assume.
"It's a goslin," said mamma, taking the little yellow, downy ball from her daughter's hand, "a darling little goslin; but it is crying 'peep, peep, because it wants to be back with its mother. Where are papa and Bertie?" "Papa done off with man. Dere Bertie," as his voice shouted "Winnie," at the door. It was almost four o'clock before Mr.
All the way she gazed unseeingly out over the fair June landscape of rolling or hilly fields ripening in the sun. At North Sutherland he bade her follow him to a dilapidated barn a few yards from the railway tracks, where was displayed a homemade sign "V. Goslin. Livery and Sale Stable."
Jack Herring here?" "Find him in the smoking-room, Mr. Bulstrode," answered old Goslin, who was reading the evening paper. "Oh, would you mind asking him to step out a moment?" Old Goslin looked up, took off his spectacles, rubbed them, put them on again. "Please say Miss Bulstrode Mr. Bulstrode's sister."
Halting opposite old Goslin the porter, who had emerged from his box with the idea of discussing the Oxford and Cambridge boat race, Somerville, removing his hat with a sweep of the arm, held it out in silence.
"But, my dear friend, I actually heard the Whispers heard them with my own ears," Krail asserted. "I happened to be about the place that night, trying to get a peep into the library, where Goslin and the old man were, I believe, busy at work. But the blinds fitted too closely, so that I couldn't see inside.
Remember that Greek deal of which the girl gained knowledge. He actually prepared bogus contracts and correspondence for the thief to steal. They were stolen, and, passing through a dozen hands, were at last offered in Athens. The Ministry there laughed at the thieves for their pains. Let us hope the same result will be now obtained." "I fear not," Goslin said quietly.
"Why?" they all asked almost in one breath. "Because Sir Henry has replied, refusing to treat for the return of the papers." "Was that not injudicious? Why did he not allow us to discuss the affair first?" argued the Levantine. "Because an immediate answer by telegraph to a post-office in Hampshire was demanded," Goslin replied.
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