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From the chair beneath her she extracted a gun-metal cigarette-case, on which were powdered in turquoise the initials "E. L." "That belongs to Lavish." said the clergyman. "A good fellow, Lavish, but I wish she'd start a pipe." "Oh, Mr. Beebe," said Miss Alan, divided between awe and mirth. "Indeed, though it is dreadful for her to smoke, it is not quite as dreadful as you suppose.
But to prevent anything happening, and to prevent our getting the case back again, Henson had to go farther. The case must be beyond our reach. Therefore, I decline to believe that it was a mere coincidence that took a stranger into Lockhart's directly after Henson had been there to look at some gun-metal cigar-cases set in diamonds.
That man was conveyed to the Sussex County Hospital, where he still lies in an unconscious state. On the body was found a receipt for a gun-metal cigar-case set with diamonds." "Good gracious, Ruth, you don't mean to say " "Oh, I do. I can't quite make out how it happened, but that same case that we that Mr. Steel has has been positively identified as one purchased from Walen by the injured man.
"We all of us jumped up, as if a gun had broke its lashings; and the last day of judgment was the thoughts of many bodies; but Bob he down at once with his button-stump gun-metal, and takes the command of the whole of us. 'Bear a hand, all on you, he saith, quite steadfast; 'Rickon Goold is preaching to his own text to-night. And so a' was, sure enough; so a' was, your honor.
The latter are seated direct on to the metal of the cylinder casting, the gun-metal bushes A and B acting as guides. The gas valve and cock are mounted in a separate casting, which is carried by a couple of studs, the joint between this and cylinder being made with a piece of rubber insertion. The two then thoroughly mix and enter the combustion chamber together as the air valve F is opened.
He distrusts everything until it has proved itself good, and yet he accepted the talent of that story without a demur." Miss Franks hurriedly moved about the room, changed her dress, smoothed her hair, washed her hands, looked at her little gun-metal watch, saw that the quarter of an hour had expired, and tripped downstairs to the dining-room.
But finally he finished. The search produced four cigars somewhat crumpled and frayed; some matches in a gun-metal case, a silver cigar cutter, two five-dollar bills, a handful of silver chicken feed, the leather case of the eyeglasses, a couple of quill toothpicks, a gold watch with a dangling fob, a notebook and some papers. Mr.
Upper left-hand waist-coat, two lead pencils and a fountain pen; lower right waist-coat, match-box and a small stamp book; right-hand pocket coat, pair of gray suede gloves, new, size seven and a half; left-hand pocket, gun-metal cigarette case studded with pearls, half-full of Egyptian cigarettes.
"The Romans, Parkinson, had a saying to the effect that gold carries no smell. That is a pity sometimes. What jewellery did Miss Hutchins wear?" "Very little, sir. A plain gold brooch representing a merry-thought the merry-thought of a sparrow, I should say, sir. The only other article was a smooth-backed gun-metal watch, suspended from a gun-metal bow." "Nothing showy or expensive, eh?"
Her mind reverted to her brother's illness, for Glen to her was of far more importance than all the mines in Nevada. "I am glad to hear that Glen is well," she said, determined on another tack. "He hasn't answered my letter." Once more Bostwick colored, beneath his tan and the gun-metal tint of his jaw. "I suppose he's been too busy," he answered. "Have you written again?"
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