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They scrambled from bed and pawed around in the dark for their clothes. "Spontinuous conibustication," said Shoop, with a yawn. "A Jew clothin'-store and a insurance-policy. Wonder who's ablaze?" "I can see from here," said Corliss at the window. "Keep on dressing, Bud, it's the sheriff's office!" "Sundown!" Shoop exclaimed, dancing about inelegantly with one foot halfway down his pants-leg.
I presume that this is not M. Vignal's intention and that he does not mean to bring a charge against him?" "Certainly not," said Jerome. "Well, what then? The insurance-policy in favour of the survivor? But there would be no misdemeanour unless the father claimed payment. And I should be greatly surprised if he did.... Hullo, here the old chap is! You'll soon know all about it."
You might play polo with him one afternoon and hear him express his opinions when a man crossed; and you might call on him next morning to raise a two-thousand rupee loan on a five hundred pound insurance-policy, eighty pounds paid in premiums. He would recognize you, but you would have some trouble in recognizing him.
But the men who advanced the four thousand dollars demanded an insurance-policy on the life of the German chemist. This appealed to our David Harum as an excellent plan: if the man who held the secret should die, all would be lost save honor. They insured the life of the chemist for twenty thousand dollars. In a month after, he was killed in a railroad wreck on a Sunday School excursion.
Do you intend to claim your rights under a certain insurance-policy?" "Well, what do you think?" said the old man, off his guard. "The fact is ... your son's not dead. People are even saying that you were a partner in his little schemes and that you stuffed him under the tilt of your trap and drove him to the station."
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