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"How many thousand divide it by?" "Divide what by, brother William John? I'm beat." "Ah! out comes the keys: lockup everything; it's time!" the farmer laughed, rather proud of his brother-in-law's perfect wakefulness after two stiff tumblers. He saw that Anthony was determined with all due friendly feeling to let no one know the sum in his possession.
"What is it?" a man's voice asked. "Am I wanted anywhere?" "I am the mounted patrol, sir," the constable said, "and I have met a suspicious sort of person in the road. She said she was coming to you, and you knew her; and though it didn't seem a likely sort of story, I thought it better to run the risk of disturbing you instead of taking her to the lockup." "It is I, Mr. Withers," Mrs.
He now came frequently of an evening, to practise a duet for flutes with Victor; a Mercadante, honeyed and flowing; too honeyed to suit a style that, as Fenellan characterized it to Nataly, went through the music somewhat like an inquisitive tourist in a foreign town, conscientious to get to the end of the work of pleasure; until the notes had become familiar, when it rather resembled a constable's walk along the midnight streets into collision with a garlanded roysterer; and the man of order and the man of passion, true to the measure though they were, seeming to dissent, almost to wrangle, in their different ways of winding out the melody, on to the last movement; which was plainly a question between home to the strayed reveller's quarters or off to the lockup.
The uproar made by the two struggling women drew the whole household to the spot. The servants hastened promptly to the assistance of their mistress, and after tearing a considerable quantity of hair out of Red Barbara's head, they tied her hands behind her and, as she would not go willingly, they dragged her through the snow to the lockup.
Now the end of the Avenue Henri Martin was within five minutes' walk of the Fauvilles' house. The man was brought into Mme. Fauville's presence and recognized her at once. What had she done in that neighbourhood for over an hour? Marie Fauville was taken to the central lockup, was entered on the register, and slept, that night, at the Saint-Lazare prison.
What does she want?" "She wants a strait-jacket, I cal'late," said Cap'n Ira. "I don't know what is best to do about her. Prudence says she won't have her in the house overnight. 'Twould be too bad to have to put her in the town lockup." "You dare to!" shrieked Ida May, with courage born of desperation. Tunis put Sheila tenderly aside. He crossed the room to the other girl.
But he kept his room, and did not appear. None but Ferguson, Jake Parker the blacksmith, and Ham Sandwich had any luck. These enthusiastic admirers of the great scientific detective hired the tavern's detained-baggage lockup, which looked into the detective's room across a little alleyway ten or twelve feet wide, ambushed themselves in it, and cut some peep-holes in the window-blind. Mr.
If the truth must be told, the half-breed was thankful that he had such a comfortable home for the time being, knowing it was much better than any the Indians could offer him, or better than he would get at the Gonzales lockup. In the meantime, matters politically were in a very mixed-up state throughout Texas.
He went off on a drunk yesterday, though he was sent here on a commissary errand." "I dunno, sir. He's in the lockup there. He was very violent, and the sergeant bound him with straps." "I will go in and examine him; he may be one of my men, and, as our brigade moves in the morning, I should like to know." "Very well, sir; the officer of the day is asleep in the room beyond the first door.
One dark night he was walking along one of the country lanes with his sweetheart when a body of tars fell upon him, and, after a sharp fight, carried him off to an old stable in the town that served as a temporary lockup. Very early the next morning Jean Nicol knocked gently at the stable door. "Are ye there, Jack?" said she.
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