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Her voice rang out shrilly, as she came forward, trembling with anger, and her knight-errant looked up at her in a daze of wonderment. Could this be Lucy? "I'm a-goin' to take him where he won't have a chance at you again very soon, child," he answered gently. "I'm a-goin' to put him in the lock-up." "The lock-up!" shrieked Lucy. "The lock-up?" yelled the children.
"Supposing the guilty man doesn't obey the governor?" we ask. "Then we send our own police, and take him, and put him in the stocks in the lock-up," and he takes us around and shows us both the stocks and the lock-up. These stocks clamp down a man's head as well as his hands and feet.
John Reeve and John King were appointed Justices of the Peace for the new district. Then Michael Shannon met James Reading on the Port Albert Road, robbed him of two orders for money and a certificate of freedom, and made his way to Melbourne. There he was arrested, and remanded by the bench to the new court at Alberton. But there was no court there, no lock-up, and no police; and Mr.
In the bright lexicon of O'Hara he believed there to be no such word as "impossible." "No," said O'Hara, "but till lock-up. You two had better cut now." "Yes, I think we'd better," said Harvey. "And don't ye breathe a word about this to a soul" a warning which extracted fervent promises of silence from both youths. "This," said Harvey, as they emerged on to the gravel, "is something like.
The lock-up bell sounded faintly. Moriarty began to grow tired. "Is it worth it?" he said, "an' wouldn't they have come before, if they meant to come?" "We'll give them another quarter of an hour," said O'Hara. "After that " "Sh!" whispered Moriarty. The door had opened. They could see a figure dimly outlined in the semi-darkness.
He meant to convey secret intelligence of carefully-laid plans to Mrs. Roberts alone. In reality not a boy in the class but heard every word. They were startled into silence. "A full police force!" They were not fonder of the lock-up than are most boys who deserve that punishment. They were skilful in escaping the hands of policemen.
He stood for a moment, lurching with unpremeditated steps to the front and rear, astonished by the noise and the crowd. Then he recognized Mrs Yabsley, and became suddenly excited, under the impression that she was being taken to the lock-up by the police. He lurched gallantly into the throng, calling on his friends to rescue the old girl from her captors.
What does he keer fur me or my girl? I'll not stay wi' yoh no longer, Lo. Mornin' he'll send me t' th' lock-up, an' after" "I care for you, child," said Holmes, stooping suddenly close to the girl's livid face. "To-morrow?" she muttered. "My Christmas-day?" He wet her face while he looked over at the wretch whose life he held in his hands.
The tall head of the Scranton police force held up something he had been carrying all the while. "Here's the skates he had, Hugh," he went on to say. "Thad tells me they are your property. He even showed me your initials scratched on each skate. Take a good look at the same, and let me know about it, will you, before I lug this sneak off to the lock-up.
When I put him in the little lock-up which they had there for such occasions and went and hunted up the constable and asked him to look after Barton until I would return. I could get no satisfaction from him, so I went to a merchant in town and related the whole circumstance to him and asked him to keep a watch or tell me of some one whom I could hire to look after him that I could rely upon.
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