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'If you'll leave me alone, I'll not trouble you, Mr. Meakim." Carroll pursed his lips and looked up at the broad expanse of purple heavens with the white stars shining through. "It's rather a pity, too, in a way," he said, slowly. "He was all the Public Opinion we had, and now that he's thrown up the part, why "
That man held a commission in the Emperor's own body-guard, and that's what Tangier did for him." Holcombe glanced at Meakim to see if he would verify this, but Meakim's lips were tightly pressed around his cigar, and his eyes were half closed. "And what was done about it?" Holcombe asked, hoarsely. Carroll laughed, and shrugged his shoulders.
They separated over the steamer's deck, and Meakim, for the hundredth time, and in the lack of conversation which comes at such moments, offered Holcombe a fresh cigar. "But I have got eight of yours now," said Holcombe. "That's all right; put it in your pocket," said the Tammany chieftain, "and smoke it after dinner. You'll need 'em.
Carroll, turning his wine-glass slowly between his fingers, raised his eyes to catch Holcombe's, and winked at him from behind the curtain of the smoke of his cigar, and Holcombe smiled grimly, and winked back, with the result that Meakim, who had intercepted the signalling, choked on his champagne, and had to be pounded violently on the back.
The chef's got some birds for us, and I've put a couple of bottles on ice. It will be like Del's hey? A small hot bird and a large cold bottle. They sent me out to ask you to join us. They're in our rooms." Meakim rose leisurely and lit a fresh cigar, but Holcombe moved uneasily in his chair. "You'll come, won't you?" Carroll asked. "I'd like you to meet my wife."
He said he'd tell Allen there was an extradition treaty that Allen didn't know about, and that if Allen didn't give him the sixty thousand he'd put it in force and make him go back and stand trial." "Compounding a felony, is he?" "No, nothing of the sort," said Meakim, indignantly. "There isn't any extradition treaty, so he wouldn't be doing anything wrong except lying a bit."
"He wouldn't have done it three months ago, but he's picked up a great deal since then since he has been with us. He's asking for Captain Reese, too." "What's he want with that blackguard?" "I don't know; he didn't tell me." "Come," said Carroll, quickly. "We must stop him." He ran lightly down the steps of the terrace to the beach, with Meakim waddling heavily after him.
He said Allah had placed them there for some good reason of His own, and it was not for man to interfere with the works of God. That's the sort of a Sultan he is." Carroll rose suddenly and walked into the smoking-room, leaving the two men looking at each other in silence. "That's right," said Meakim, after a pause. "He give it to you just as it is, but I never knew him to kick about it before.
And at that time he must have already speculated away about half of what he had stolen of other people's money. I'd like to tease him about it." "What trial was that?" asked Meakim. Holcombe laughed and shook his head as he moved on down the stairs. "Don't ask embarrassing questions, Meakim," he said. "It was one you won't forget in a hurry." "Oh!" said Meakim, with a grin. "All right.
Pat Meakim, the Police Commissioner that I indicted, but who jumped his bail, introduced me at the reception to the men, with apparently great self-satisfaction, as 'the pride of the New York Bar, and Mrs. Carroll, for whose husband I obtained a divorce, showed her gratitude by presenting me to the ladies.
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