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We had to put in three or four hours of hard study every evening in order to keep up; and if we failed By this time some of the larger boys Newman Darnley, Ben Murch, Absum Glinds and Melzar Tibbetts were smiling broadly and winking at one another. The new master, they thought, was "dead easy."
Trent considered for some moments, gazing through the open window over the sun-flooded slopes. 'Would it bore you to hear what he has to say again? he asked at length. For reply, Mr. Murch rang the bell. A spare, clean-shaven, middle-aged man, having the servant's manner in its most distinguished form, answered it. 'This is Mr. Trent, who is authorized by Mrs.
Not until the swift winter nightfall recalled him to himself did he remember the world around him; and when at last he groped his way down the long flights of dusky stairs to the street, his was the slow and inelastic step of a beaten man. Mr. Murch had spent the holiday and the week-end at the country place of a fellow financier. To this retired spot news penetrated with decorum and conservatism.
'Is that the one? Trent murmured as he bent over the inspector's hand. 'That's him, replied Mr Murch. 'Lodged in the bone at the back of the skull. Dr Stock got it out within the last hour, and handed it to the local officer, who has just sent it on to me. These bright scratches you see were made by the doctor's instruments.
Murch said we wern't to trouble her. She'll go when the light comes most like. She was a little shrivelled woman with a singularly delicate mouth, that quivered as she spoke. John and Eliza Bolderfield had never thought much of her, though she was John's cousin. She was a widow, and greatly 'put upon' both by her children and her neighbours.
Murch, it is not too much to say that he was momentarily shaken. "Suppose you drop around to the Club in about twenty minutes," was the suave suggestion of the man at the other end of the line. "For a moment," the Guardian's Vice-President agreed hastily. "For a moment," he repeated, as he replaced the receiver on its hook. It were much better that he and Mr.
And I've made the company a better money-maker on the underwriting side than it's ever been before you'll admit that, I think. There's no reason why we shouldn't go on. My suggestion would be to assess the stock." He awaited the answer nervously, toying with a penholder, not daring to glance at the other man. He did not have to wait long. "Not much!" said Mr. Murch, coldly.
"I haven't the slightest idea," replied the other. Murch lifted the receiver from the telephone at his elbow. "Hello: give me Broad nine nine seven six. Is this Atwater and Jenkins? Give me Mr. Atwater this is Mr. Murch speaking. That you, Billy? How's the market?" He replaced the receiver with a snap. "Everything off at the opening. Bad slump in Maryland Traction and P. N. T."
He must have crept about like a cat.... Do you feel as I do, Murch, about all this: that it is very, very strange and baffling?" "That's how it looks," agreed the inspector. "And now," said Trent, rising to his feet, "I'll leave you to your meditations, and take a look at the bedrooms. Perhaps the explanation of all this will suddenly burst upon you while I am poking about up there.
Of the garrison, 1 officer, Lieutenant Isaac Murch, of the 28th Maine, and 7 men were killed, 2 officers and 11 men wounded in all 21. The Princess Royal had 1 man killed, 2 wounded. The vessel was struck in twenty places by grape-shot.
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