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I remember noticing when I came in." "The snake is here here in this room. This man had it in a bag! I saw him! He is a thief!" "Easy, ma'am!" protested the detective. "Go easy! This gentleman is the boss's son-in-law." "I care not who he is! He has my snake! Here here in this room!" "Mr. Moffam wouldn't go round stealing snakes." "Rather not," said Archie. "Never stole a snake in my life.
"Archie Moffam! I have been trying to find you all the morning." Archie had placed him now. He had not seen General Mannister for several years not, indeed, since the days when he used to meet him at the home of young Lord Seacliff, his nephew. Archie had been at Eton and Oxford with Seacliff, and had often visited him in the Long Vacation. "Halloa, General! What ho, what ho!
'E said 'e would no more think of eatin' a lot of pie than 'e would of shootin' 'imself, and anyhow eating pie would be a quicker death. I reasoned with 'im, Mr. Moffam, with tears in my eyes. I asked 'im was he goin' to chuck away fame and wealth just because a woman who didn't know what she was talking about had shown him a lot of faked pictures. But there wasn't any doin' anything with him.
Peter might, as the Press-agent had stated, be a great scout, but was his little Garden of Eden on the fifth floor of the Cosmopolis Hotel likely to be improved by the advent of even the most amiable and winsome of serpents? However "Moffam! My dear fellow!" The voice, speaking suddenly in his ear from behind, roused Archie from his reflections.
"Where is my snake?" Archie, looked at the detective. The detective looked at Archie. "This lady," said the detective, with a dry little cough, "thinks her snake is in your room, Mr. Moffam." "Snake?" "Snake's what the lady said." "My snake! My Peter!" Mme. Brudowska's voice shook with emotion. "He is here here in this room." Archie shook his head. "No snakes here! Absolutely not!
Of course! He's your " "How are you?" said the young man. "Talking of my sister," he said to Reggie, "I suppose you haven't met her husband by any chance? I suppose you know she married some awful chump?" "Me," said Archie. "How's that?" "I married your sister. My name's Moffam." The young man seemed a trifle taken aback. "Sorry," he said. "Not at all," said Archie.
Blumenthal's soul. The working man, he considered, was rapidly landing God's Country in the soup, and he had twice upset his glass with the vehemence of his gesticulation. He was an energetic right-and-left-hand talker. "The more you give 'em the more they want!" he complained. "There's no pleasing 'em! It isn't only in my business. There's your father, Mrs. Moffam!" "Good God!
"Good egg, you know. Halloa, here's a postscript. I didn't see it." P.S. I should be glad if you would convey my most cordial respects to Mrs. Moffam. Will you also inform her that I chanced to meet Mr. William this morning on Broadway, just off the boat. He desired me to send his regards and to say that he would be joining you at Brookport in the course of a day or so. Mr.
Archie was popular with all the employes of the Cosmopolis. "'S a great day, Mr. Moffam!" "One of the brightest and best," Agreed Archie. "Could you dig me out two, or possibly three, cigarettes of the usual description? I shall want something to smoke at the ball-game." "You going to the ball-game?" "Rather! Wouldn't miss it for a fortune." "No?" "Absolutely no!
For an instant she paused, as though about to speak, then swept from the room. A moment later a door banged across the passage. "How do they get that way?" queried the detective, "Well, g'bye, Mr. Moffam. Sorry to have butted in." The door closed. Archie waited a few moments, then went to the window and hauled in the slack. Presently the bag appeared over the edge of the window-sill.
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