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He was rewarded by seeing her rush to a table and write something on a sheet of yellow paper. "Resparation, very iregular," was what she wrote. She was not a particularly good speller. After that Mr. Middleton slept for what he felt was a day and a night. It was really ten minutes by the hunting-case watch.
"Poor devils," he said to himself. But Jane Brown put away her hunting-case watch, and the lame girl swept the ward with soft eyes that had in them a pity that was almost a benediction. Then she sang. Her voice was like her eyes, very sweet and rather frightened, but tender. And suddenly something a little hard and selfish in Twenty-two began to be horribly ashamed of itself.
But in the snowy white chamber hitherto described in a preceding chapter there were subdued sounds which betrayed the disturbed state of the occupant. Phillip Lawson's couch was yet bedecked in its snowy draperies and its perfect folds showed that no hand had marred its effect by actual contact. The heavy hunting-case watch lying upon the dressing-case pointed to the wee small hours.
In her room other things pressed in on her; the necessity of making good for the sake of those at home, her love of the work, and cowardice. But here she saw things right. The night nurse found her there some time later, asleep, her hunting-case watch open on Johnny's bed and her fingers still on his quiet wrist. She made no report of it.
So, if you have the courage to face four pages of type and Carteret & Carteret's office boy, Percival, you shall sit on a varnished chair in the inner office and peep at the little comedy of the Old Nigger Man, the Hunting-Case Watch, and the Open-Faced Question mostly borrowed from the late Mr. Frank Stockton, as you will conclude.
"Done!" says I. "I bet you my hunting-case suit against your earthly possessions that you can't tow old Britannia-rules-the-waves around Siwash for a day without disclosing the fact that you are the best catch-as-catch-can liar in this section of the solar system." "All right," said Petey. "But you've got to help me win the stuff. This is a great big contract.
Uncle Bobbie Wicks pulled down the top of his desk and heard the lock click with a long sigh of satisfaction, for a glance at his large, old-fashioned hunting-case watch told him that it was nearly eleven o'clock.
After they had been there nearly an hour, Bart felt for his watch and found he had left it at the boathouse. "What time is it, Carson?" he asked. The young Westerner drew forth a hunting-case watch and opened it. "Nearly three," he said. Then he sat staring at the watch. But Bart observed it was not the face of the watch at which his companion was gazing with a dreamy, far-away look in his eyes.
Lying there, he had a good deal of time to study them, and somehow his recollection of the girl with the hunting-case watch did not seem to fit her in with these kindly and efficient women.
The city authorities have recently stationed a policeman at the door of one of these establishments, to warn strangers of its true character. A friend of the writer a "verdant countryman," too once attended one of these auctions. A magnificent hunting-case watch was put up, and knocked down to John, as we shall call him, at the low price of ten dollars.
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