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No reply being made to the question about a police officer, Mr. Lane said, addressing the accused hackman "If you wish to escape trouble, take me instantly to the house where I can find the lady you took from the boat last night. She is my wife, and I will go through fire and water to find her; and let him who stands in my way take the consequences." Murphy now drew Mr.
The hackman jumped down, went up and rang the bell. Then he came back to the carriage and opened the door. Mr. Rockharrt got out, followed by his granddaughter. "Wait here!" he said to the hackman, as he went to the door, which was promptly opened by an attendant. "I wish to see the physician in charge here, or the head of the hospital, or whatever may be his official title," said the Iron King.
Sandford; mechanically his hand went to the inside breast-pocket of his over-coat; he drew out the package of legal papers bearing Mr. Sandford's name. "But but," he stammered, "I don't understand I left these in your box at the safe-deposit company." "To be sure you did," answered Indiman, coolly. He pulled the check-cord. "Drive back to the safe deposit," he called to the hackman.
I now trust you implicitly, and you can command me in everything." I took his hand warmly and thanked him cordially. It was impossible to longer doubt that frank and beaming face. "But," I said, "are we not in great danger? Will not that hackman, for the sake of the reward, inform the police of our whereabouts?" "No!" he said; "have no fears upon that score.
Carlyle writes of him: 'On going to Hinchinbrook, I found he was strikingly like the dissolute, questionable Earl of Sandwich; who, indeed, had been father of him in a highly tragic way. Carlyle's Reminiscences, i. 224. Hackman, who was a clergyman of the Church, had once been in the army. Cradock's Memoirs, i. 140.
"He is in the car, Missis he is shot in the ankle," said Jack. In a minute the women were crying. "I was going to get a hack," said Jack, "to " "No, No!" said both of them. "Go, Lou, and help Jack to bring him to our carriage. You can drive him more steadily than the hackman." Jack and I went to the car, and helped him out, and after some effort, got him into our carriage.
The hackman had disappeared, and in his place, driving positively the worst-looking turnout I ever saw, was John Jacob Astor with his bride sitting beside him.
Again he demanded more, and got a franc demanded more, and it was refused. He grew vehement was again refused, and became noisy. The stranger said, "Well, give me the seven francs again, and I will see what I can do" and when he got them, he handed the hackman half a franc, and he immediately asked for two cents to buy a drink with. It may be thought that I am prejudiced. Perhaps I am.
"There's another train at four, isn't there?" he asked an official. "Four-thirty, express. Yes, sir." A hackman came up soliciting patronage. Ruthven motioned him to follow, leading the way to the edge of the platform. "I don't want to drive to the village. What have you got there, a sleigh?" It was the usual Long Island depot-wagon, on runners instead of wheels.
Thanking both of these men for the information which they had given him, the detective, forgetting all about his breakfast, hastened to the office of the chief of police, and acquainting him with what he had heard, expressed his desire to see this hackman at once.
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