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On arriving at Mr. Downing's and going to Adair's study, Mike found that his late antagonist was out. He left a note informing him of his willingness to play in the morrow's match. The lock-up bell rang as he went out of the house. A spot of rain fell on his hand. A moment later there was a continuous patter, as the storm, which had been gathering all day, broke in earnest.
He resolved to decoy him into the lock-up, and accosted him in a friendly, free-and-easy way. "Good day t'ye," he said. " most magnificent volume ever published, jewelled in fourteen holes, working on a ruby roller, and in a glass case," said the book-canvasser.
His daily fear he being of an eminently economical and practical turn of mind was that Jack would one day find either himself tight shut in the lock-up in charge of the jailer or his belongings strewed loose on the sidewalk and in charge of the sheriff.
I've got Carder in a box, and, believe me, he won't try to lift up the lid and let anybody see him." "He was here soon after you left," said Mrs. Barry calmly. Ben looked surprised and alert. "What did he want?" "Pete; and he was going to have him or put you in the lock-up. Also he wanted Miss Melody. He's a wretch, Ben. I'm glad you went after him."
They took her away to the lock-up in the hurry-up wagon, and the next day they said she was crazy, clean crazy, and she's in the crazy-house over on the Island now." "What island?" I asked, not with any desire to know this minor detail, but because I was too disturbed for the moment to make any other comment.
He travelled about formerly. But no amount of travel, no association with his betters, could pierce his stolid pachydermatous obliquity. He was the worst kind of Englishman; he could not even cheat without being found out. But for the wise counsels of his lady he would have been in the lock-up over and over again. Such being the case, he took a justifiable pride in his Anglo-Saxon origin.
With the majority of the spectators it was enough to see the first five safely in. The last man and lock-up arrived almost simultaneously, and the Head went off to a well-earned dinner.
The necessity to reel out the whole thing to whomever would listen was on him like a sneeze. It's always so at this stage of the game. For all the hullabaloo in the streets, we were quiet enough here, since the lock-up at Santa Ysobel lurks demurely, as such places are apt to do, in the rear of the building whose garbage can it is. Our pacing captive could keep silent no longer.
It looked as if somebody had driven some heavy instrument into it. As a matter of fact, Albert had effected the job with the butt-end of an oar. The damage was not ruinous. A carpenter could put the thing right at no great expense. But it would take time. And meanwhile the minutes were flying, and lock-up was now little more than half an hour away. "What'll you do, sir?" asked Bevan.
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