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Updated: May 7, 2025
There's a game on to bust this meetin' to-night and put the hook into you good and hard. Maginnis has spent a thousand to do it. D'yer savvy? Now will yer step lively?" The boss considered a moment and then stepped lively. Varney, falling in behind, stepped lively too, his curiosity strongly stirred.
Mary repressed an inclination to smile. "Certainly, Mr. Maginnis. Good-bye. I've enjoyed it a great, great deal." And to Pinkney Hare she added: "You are going over the yacht with us, of course?" Mrs. Marne embarked in a shower of farewells. Peter, however, loitered at the head of the stairs, and the gig waited at the foot of them.
Abandoning that field abruptly, he said: "What I urge is that you ought not to trust too much to accidental recoveries like that of the Maginnis child. If faith-healing is a mistake it may do a great deal of harm." Phillida's eyes fell to the table, and she fingered a paper-weight with manifest emotion. "What you say in regard to responsibility is true, Philip.
At the foot of the bed stood Peter Maginnis, his face like the face of a carven image. At the very moment when the garrulous conductor was trying to foist off poor little Tommy Orrick upon Mr. Stanhope, the old doctor raised his head. "He's not dead yet. An excellent chance I should say." Peter's face did not change. His hand tightened on the foot-board till his nails whitened.
Maginnis had threatened to horsewhip me in the public square, after my attempt to buy the paper and save us all from scandal. So naturally, on the afternoon you mention, I I anticipated trouble. However, I quietly returned to Hunston on the next train back, going, of course, to a different hotel, a most dreadful little place " Varney shouted. "It's just as Peter said, I declare!
Maginnis was in despondency and her usual indecision, that she heard Mrs. Frankland's address in which the cure of the poor girl in the tenement-house was told as an illustration of the power of prayer." "Mrs. Frankland worked up all the details with striking effect, no doubt," said Millard, with an expression of disgust. "Well, you know Mrs. Frankland can't help being eloquent.
As the two on board stood watching the yacht make fast, conversing, if the truth be known, somewhat disjointedly, they were astonished to see the great form of a man rise from a grassy bed a little way back from the river-bank and advance towards them. "Why, look!" said Mary. "There's Mr. Maginnis! I thought he'd gone to town long ago." Varney did not answer her.
He turned and saw the editor's pale face hanging over the banisters. "It was Maginnis I sold the Gazette to, you know Peter Maginnis. I wouldn't have sold it to anybody else. You'll find him at the hotel eating supper." Varney, looking at him, knew then what it was that Smith thought he owed to him and Maginnis. He went back up the stairs and the two men shook hands in rather an agitated silence.
But tell me who you are, and what I can do for you." The man's face, which had grown rather loose and mobile, instantly became business-like and alert. "I'm 'Lije Stobo, Mr. Varney Hackley'll tell you. I was hired a week ago by Mr. Maginnis to watch trains for a certain party kind of expected to show up here."
Against this background of quiet night and moonlit peace, his enterprise began to look very small and easy. A ramble through the pleasant woods over there, a little girl met and played with, a leisurely stroll hand-in-hand down a woodland path to the yacht was it for this that he had begged the assistance of Peter Maginnis, of the large administrative abilities and the teeming energies?
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