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So completely hoaxed, indeed, was their commander that he, who had come with two divisions to take Almeida, and held it in the hollow of his hand, decamped early next morning and marched away to report, the fortress so strongly protected as to be unassailable. Well this, as I say, showed talent. Artistically conceived as a ruse de guerre, in effect it saved Almeida.
The wind whistled eerily through the scant-leaved scrub-oaks on the slopes above. But from the room at the window of which he listened there came no sound. Adrian felt like one hoaxed, made ridiculous by his own sentimentality. He strode on. But when he reached the farther corner some involuntary impulse turned him back.
The Marquis was not the man to give away anything that did not belong to him. Somebody had hoaxed the Vicar, or the Vicar had hoaxed Mr. Bolt; or else, which Mr. Puddleham thought to be most likely, the Vicar had gone mad with vexation at the glory and the triumph of the new chapel. "He was uncommon civil," said Mr. Bolt, who at this moment was somewhat inclined to favour the Vicar.
I saw Hill, the butler, only yesterday morning, and he told me that his master was sure to be in Scotland for at least a month longer." "It's very strange," muttered the inspector, half to himself. "It will be a deuced awkward situation to face if Scotland Yard has been hoaxed." "Beg your pardon, sir, but is there anything wrong about Sir Horace?" "Yes.
In a word, he saw he had been hoaxed fooled carefully, systematically, and at every point. While he had been congratulating himself on the completeness with which the conspirators had been walking into his net, he had in reality been caught in theirs. He had been like a child in their hands. They had evidently been watching and countering his every step.
He will come into the reporters' room of the Daily Mail, sit on the edge of the table, smoke a cigarette, and talk to the men as if he were one of themselves. He likes them. They like him. Stories cluster round him. A young writer went out to investigate a series of happenings in a Midland town, was rather badly hoaxed, and was responsible for a good deal of ridicule directly against the paper.
But I do know that you have been hoaxed, that you are the victim of some deception, that somebody is making a fool of you. A hundred thousand francs! And for that note! Why, man, you are mad or very, very drunk! We don't want the note. We have no concern in it!" "No concern in it!" shrieked Tellier. "When it is written by Lord Vernon!" "Lord Vernon did not write it," retorted Collins, coolly.
"You're right, Max," called out Owen, who could easily hear all that was said, "no breeze ever carried that cap away, and I know it." "What did, then?" demanded Bandy-legs, bent on getting some sort of solution to the puzzle. "This old country must be hoaxed or bewitched, I guess," grumbled Steve. "Things just seem able to disappear without anybody taking 'em.
Railsford alone looked serious and bewildered. As for Mr Bickers, his face turned white, and he looked for a moment as if he would spring at Mr Roe's throat. He snatched the letter from the chairman's hand and looked at it, and then stared round him, on the amused faces of his colleagues. "You have been hoaxed, I fear," said Mr Roe. Mr Bickers said nothing, but pointed to the parcel.
According to the historian she caused a sepulchral chamber to be constructed for herself in the walls of Babylon, above one of the principal gates. So far as the terms of the inscription are concerned he may have been hoaxed by the native dragomans, but there is nothing to rouse our scepticism in the fact of a tomb having been contrived in the thickness of the wall.
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