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He turned and looked about the room to assure himself that nothing was missing, not giving the three soldiers so much as a glance, and at last, still without a word spoken, appeared to come to a decision. He suddenly arose, took the candle and went out, leaving them in darkness and carefully closing and locking the door behind him in order that no one might follow him.
Bareheaded as he now was and lacking the overcoat, Trencher realised the chief elements of his disguise were missing; still there had been for him no other course to follow than this risky one. He could not claim ownership of one coat and one hat while wearing another coat and another hat that was certain.
But the little fool told me nothing about her father's disappearance or the missing jewels." "Because the Paris police had warned her not to, in all probability." "Well " he gasped. "If that story is really true, it is the grandest slice of luck we've ever had, Ewart," he declared. "How? What do you mean?" "What I say," was his brief answer. "I shall go back to London after breakfast.
With Madame de Vercellis he passed three months, and at the end of that time she died. His stay here was marked by an incident that has filled many pages with stormful discussion. When Madame de Vercellis died, a piece of old rose-coloured ribbon was missing; Rousseau had stolen it, and it was found in his possession. They asked him whence he had taken it.
His door was immediately swung open by a thump, and in the doorway stood the missing Blandois, the cause of many anxieties. 'Salve, fellow jail-bird! said he. 'You want me, it seems. Here I am! Before Arthur could speak to him in his indignant wonder, Cavalletto followed him into the room. Mr Pancks followed Cavalletto.
Standing at the right end of the line, he rolled the pigskin in front of and slightly away from the line, and one after another the men leaped forward and flung themselves upon it, missing it at first as often as not, and rolling about on the turf as though suddenly seized with fits.
Possibly she had seen the significant gesture with which the Curator pointed out a quiver from which one of the arrows was missing. That this was so, was shown by her next question: "But where is the bow? Look about on the floor. You will find none. How can an arrow be shot without a bow?" "It cannot be," came from some one at her back.
"Do you want me, sir?" I asked. "So you and Jim Pulley have not taken yourselves off?" he exclaimed. "No, sir; we never thought of doing so, and I gave you my word that I wouldn't desert." He made no reply, but ordered Mr Griffiths to call over the names of the men. Four were found missing.
But my reader will observe the vast difference between a case such as occurs every day, and that which confronted the young Indian. Two boys had gone into the woods more than a week before, on a long hunt, and were now missing; it was his task to find them. Could it be done?
"He's very clever, isn't he?" said Evie, who had met and detested Tibby at Oxford. "Yes, pretty well but I wonder what Helen's doing." "She is very young to undertake this sort of thing," said Mr. Wilcox. Margaret went out to the landing. She heard no sound, and Mr. Bast's topper was missing from the hall. "Helen!" she called. "Yes!" replied a voice from the library. "You in there?"
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