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He charged me to say if he did not happen to run against you as he was returning the cockboat that he would be at the creek-head punctually at nine-thirty to await us." Two hours later Captain Branscome sent word for me to attend him in his cabin.
Just step this way, please," and, with a little bow, he motioned to them to follow him into the semi-dark machine shop back of the office. When Jack Kimball called at the Robinson home that same evening, at precisely nine-thirty, he found three very much agitated young ladies.
We then resumed our journey and arrived at the elephant camp at nine-thirty. It was a scene of industry. The skins of the two largest elephants and that of the calf had been removed the afternoon before and were spread out under a cluster of trees.
"Unmasking is at nine-thirty. Let us be there. We can just make it, and it will puzzle some persons to tell who interrupted them tonight. Our talk will wait until after unmasking. Then we can dodge into one of the side rooms and have it out." "A fine plan," endorsed Ronny. "We are in luck to get here in time enough for the unmasking."
Savage will be in the smoke-room forward, sir." "Very well. Tell Miss Killigrew that I shall come aboard." "Thank you, sir. The motor-boat will be at the jetty at nine-thirty, sir." The servants about the Killigrew home understood Thomas' position. They had known young honorables who had served as private secretaries. A formal command. There was no way of avoiding it.
During the next hour and a half he gleaned considerable information regarding British business methods, the while he monotonously pounded the sidewalk. At nine-thirty a scouting party of dignified office-boys made a cautious approach.
It was a business matter I couldn't neglect. And as luck would have it, Abbey ran into me as I got off the train. On account of your being there, of course, he insisted that I come out for dinner. It'll look queer if I don't, as I can't possibly get a return train for the Springs before nine-thirty this evening.
"We arrived at Camp Roosevelt a few minutes after eleven and went immediately to where Rees had been carried. Examination showed that he had been dead probably fifteen minutes. He had been unconscious since nine-thirty. Two fellow-Mormons sat with the body the rest of the night.
A chapter, preferably from the Old Testament, was read, a prayer offered up, and at nine-thirty precisely the family was ready to go to bed. Miss Hepburn had reason to believe that for three quarters of an hour she was free to do as she wished, and she wished as ardently as she was able to wish anything, to see Barrie. She had heard next to nothing of the day's events from Mrs.
Stone was an obstacle not so easily surmounted, and it seemed to them that she was never more ubiquitous. At nine-thirty Miss Preston had bade all good-night in an unusually solicitous manner, wishing each happy dreams.
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