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We had the half-ticket with us, and we soon got hold of the booking-clerk who had issued it on the previous afternoon. He remembered the looks of the man to whom he had sold it, and described him to us well enough. Moreover, he found us a ticket-collector who remembered that same man arriving in Peebles two days before, and giving up a ticket from Glasgow.
And our question now is, Can we get at it in any other way?" We had more talk downstairs, and it was settled that Chisholm and I should go on to Peebles by the first train that morning, find out what we could there, and work back to the Cornhill station, where, according to the half-ticket which had been found on him, the murdered man appeared to have come on the evening of his death.
Indulging in day-dreams about Coming Into his Property and Going Into Society, for which he feels himself formed, and to aspire towards which is his avowed ambition, the mystery, as to where the Dwarf's salary and ha'pence all go, is one day cleared up by his winning a prize in the Lottery, a half-ticket for the twenty-five thousand pounder. Mr.
It would never do to allow this to be known. On the other hand, McConnachie must be kept in good humor or he would give trouble to his guardian, who began now to see the weak points in the plot. So trusting to the certainty of being able to get back the remaining half-ticket when the old man was safely lodged in the Asylum, he retained the single ticket and gave McConnachie the other.
In the band of his hat his half-ticket was stuck. His eyes remained mostly fixed on the back of the seat opposite, and never turned to the window even when a station was reached and called. On the other seat were two or three passengers, one of them a working woman who held a basket on her lap, in which was a tabby kitten.
At last came the station master himself. He looked at my half-ticket and then asked: "Is not the boy over twelve?" "No," said my father. I was then only eleven, but looked older than my age. "You must pay the full fare for him," said the station master. My father's eyes flashed as, without a word, he took out a currency note from his box and handed it to the station master.
Twelve thousand odd hundred pound, was Chops's winnins. He had bought a half-ticket for the twenty-five thousand prize, and it had come up. The first use he made of his property, was, to offer to fight the Wild Indian for five hundred pound a side, him with a poisoned darnin-needle and the Indian with a club; but the Indian being in want of backers to that amount, it went no further.
Well, if this particular deal had failed, he must shuffle the cards and deal again. In any case Jan should see that where his children were concerned he was not to be trifled with. He was sorry, though, he had bought the half-ticket for Tony, and to ask them to take it back might cause comment. As the slow train steamed out from the junction Hugo felt a very ill-used man.
Perhaps I'd better not come to the ticket-office; the porters are sure to think me only a little girl." She was uneasy until we had fairly started from the station, her right to a half-ticket unchallenged. The November night was cold and foggy, and there was little difference between the darkness of the suburbs and the darkness of the open country.
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