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"Poor woman!" muttered Jan, and absent-mindedly drank his ginger ale. The boy was still there. "Where is Mrs. Goles now?" asked Jan. The boy jerked his head. "Out there on the back stairs." Jan stood up. "Here!" He handed the boy a quarter. "A wonder a boy like you hangs out round here!" "I run Mrs. Goles's errands. I been runnin' 'em since I was a kid. My mother used to work for her mother.
It seemed that he had quite forgotten Pierre. When the adjutant reminded him of the prisoner, he jerked his head in Pierre's direction with a frown and ordered him to be led away. But where they were to take him Pierre did not know: back to the coach house or to the place of execution his companions had pointed out to him as they crossed the Virgin's Field.
But when the strings were pulled, one after another, and the arms and legs and head of the funny fellow twisted and turned and jerked, the two office boys and the typewriter girl laughed. And the Clown himself was glad, for he felt that he was not broken. "If the Boss comes in and finds you playing with that Clown you'll catch it," said the girl to the first office boy, after a while.
"So it was till last night," I put in; and was about to tell my story, when I felt my skirts jerked. Turning, I found that this warning had come from the cleaner who stood close beside me. "What do you want?" I asked, not understanding her and having nothing to conceal. "I?" she faltered, with a frightened air. "Nothing, ma'am, nothing."
Other detectives who attempted to invade the privacy of that rear coach after the train had gotten under way were also denied. Meanwhile, the filibusters cast restraint aside, and for the first time intermingled freely. Evening came, then night, and still the party was jerked along at the tail of the train without a hint as to its destination.
There were seventeen pieces of it altogether, and every time the ancient vehicle lurched or swayed, which on an average was once every thirty seconds, she was in terror lest one or more of them should be jerked out. Half her day was taken up in counting them and re-arranging them, and the only view in which she was interested was the cloud of dust behind us.
The dapper little man jerked his head as over a triviality. "I'll stake you. It wouldn't cost above five hundred pounds." The biologist sat back in his chair, at the words, and looked over the table at his guest. "That's awfully decent of you, Godfrey," he said, "and I'd go if I saw a way to get your money to you if anything happened." "Damn the money!" cried the other. The biologist smiled.
Tuppence nodded at him with the air of one who has established a thorough understanding. "Know who I'm after?" she inquired genially. Albert, still round-eyed, demanded breathlessly: "One of the flats?" Tuppence nodded and jerked a thumb up the stairs. "No. 20. Calls herself Vandemeyer. Vandemeyer! Ha! ha!" Albert's hand stole to his pocket. "A crook?" he queried eagerly. "A crook?
Sitka Charley sold it to them last spring. But he sized you up to me as square once, and I believe him. I've seen your face; I like it. And I've seen why, damn you, hit the high places for salt water and that wife of yours, and Here the Kid unmittened and jerked out his sack. 'No; I don't need it, and the tears froze on his cheeks as he convulsively gripped Malemute Kid's hand.
Isabel had overheard the wager, and her soul was evilly alight; she jerked the slave girl to her feet and with a blow of her palm sent her to her quarters. Then she turned her attention to the twins. When she left them they were weeping silently, both for themselves and for Evangelina, whom they dearly loved. Meanwhile Don Mario had resumed his singing.
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