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They met at the mess-table of Handyside's regiment at Lille; the officer commanding not knowing of the feud between the two noblemen. Esmond had not seen the hateful handsome face of Mohun for nine years, since they had met on that fatal night in Leicester Field.
Besides, it is evidently known now that you are at home. Also, which I omitted to mention before, there is the bell wire to Dr. Handyside's study." "Then that's all right," Alan said, not without relief, "and you'll have that big dog by to-morrow or next day." Caw bowed and went out. "You didn't answer his question about the clock," remarked Teddy. "Confound the clock!" Alan laughed and got up.
Theydon ate a hearty breakfast, thus proving that the marvels and portents of the previous day had not begun to undermine his constitution. Finding he had time, after attending to his correspondence, to walk to Handyside's hotel in the Strand, he did so. The American was awaiting him at the end of a long, thin cigar. "Any noos?" said the Chicagoan, after a cheerful greeting. "Yes.
Handyside's house, and I do not doubt that you will make yourself useful there, helping him with his car and so on. If expedient, you may trust the doctor, but do not trouble him without grave cause. The passage will remain available, and you will make inspections of this house at intervals." He paused for a moment, took another sip, and resumed.
There was an old cousin of Uncle Handyside's who always turned the conversation on to Russia, where he had visited successful brothers; but his talk was not incisive. My cousin Agnes asked me when I supposed this visit was paid, and I said a few years ago, probably, when she laughed and said "Nicol Handyside spent six weeks in Russia 30 years ago, and he has been talking about it ever since."
There was one comrade of Esmond's, an honest little Irish lieutenant of Handyside's, who owed so much money to a camp sutler, that he began to make love to the man's daughter, intending to pay his debt that way; and at the battle of Malplaquet, flying away from the debt and lady too, he rushed so desperately on the French lines, that he got his company; and came a captain out of the action, and had to marry the sutler's daughter after all, who brought him his cancelled debt to her father as poor Roger's fortune.
Handyside's " "Ah! How did you learn that?" "The doctor's housekeeper. She wouldn't have her photo taken, but she didn't object to a chat." The youngish man smiled to himself. Evidently his news was worth more than he had anticipated. "Sure it's to-night?" "Absolutely, Mr. Warren." "Anything further?" "I'm afraid not, sir. You must understand " "Thanks. Well, Mr.
They were walking through a long corridor when Furneaux appeared at the other end. Beyond the three men, not another person was visible in that part of the hotel, and in a few seconds they were behind the closed door of Handyside's room. "So you're still on the map?" said the detective, surveying Theydon with an air of professional interest.
The prince bade the aide-de-camp give him a piece of money; and when the party saluting us had ridden away, Cravat spat upon the piece of gold by way of benediction, and swaggered away, pouching his coin and twirling his honest carroty moustache. The officer in whose company Esmond was, the same little captain of Handyside's regiment, Mr.
She wrote a few lines to Teddy, stating simply what she had done. After that she gave way. About the same hour, in Dr. Handyside's study, four hundred miles away, a conference of three people was drawing to a close. Earlier in the day Caw had received a belated visit from Mr. Harvie, the Glasgow lawyer, who, owing to illness, had been unable to attend to business since his client's death.
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