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They accepted the first three I did, but rejected the fourth, which both Hammett and Chauvin thought the best." "Probably it was. That was why they rejected it. But about this money " "Please," pleaded Flamby. Don looked into her eyes and was silenced. He suppressed a sigh. "Have you seen Paul lately?" he asked. "No. He is away. His book frightens me."
Moore languidly squinted along the staggering barrier. "Wa-al I reckon I will one o' these days," he said. He grinned in a friendly way at Janice as she started on. "Them Hammett gals is reg'lar fuss-bugets," he observed. "But they're nice folks. So you're Broxton Day's gal? I heard you'd arove. How do you like Poketown?" "I don't know it well enough to say yet, Mr.
And it is easy to have all this away from the seashore. The best tanks, so far as we know, that are made in this country, are those of Mr. C.E. Hammett, of Newport, Rhode Island. But the tank is of little importance, if one cannot get the water, the seaweed, and the stock; and therefore Mr. Hammett undertakes to supply these also.
But barely an hour had passed before a jailer came, and took him to a private room, where he found himself confronted by McGivney and Hammett, also the Chief of Police of the city, a deputy district attorney, and last but most important of all Guffey. It was the head detective of the Traction Trust who took Peter in charge. "Now, Gudge," said he, "what's this job you've been putting up on us?"
And McGivney and Hammett and Guffey ha-ha-ed together, and to Peter it seemed like the mockery of demons in the undermost pit of hell. Those words brought every pillar of Peter's dream castle tumbling in ruins about his ears. Guffey had found out about Nell! Again and again on the automobile ride to Guffey's office Peter had reminded himself of Nell's command, "Stick it out, Peter! Stick it out!"
After that, the visitors gathered about the sugar troughs like flies about molasses. The Hammett Twins were not niggard souls by any manner of means; but they kept warning the girls and boys all the afternoon to "save room for supper." In truth, the supper down at the old Hammett farmhouse, after the work of the day was over, was the principal event.
When Don is home I have no fear, but when he is away there is really no one to study your interests, and, after all, Flamby, you are only a girl." "There is Mrs. Chumley and Mr. Hammett and Claude Chauvin." "Three quite delightful people, Flamby, I admit. But Hammett and Chauvin cannot always be with you, and Mrs.
Old customers who know my stock is always first-class come to me regularly, especially out-of-town people. Saturdays I manage to have quite some trade, like the Hammett Twins, and the farmers. I can't complain." "You never liked the business, then?" asked Janice, shrewdly. "No. Not that it isn't as good as most livelihoods. We all must work. And I never could do the thing I loved to do.
"Now, you march downstairs, and remember, I've got this gun on you, and there's eight bullets in it, and if you move a finger I'll put them all into you." So Peter and McGivney and Hammett went down in the elevator of the hotel, and out of doors, and into an automobile.
These letters and papers are signed, respectively, by the following names: Alexander Van Dusen; Thomas Boult & Co.; E. F. Mayo; Geo. P. Harper; Browne, Sherman & Co.; Hammett & Co.; Charles A. Herbert; Geo.
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