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About nine-thirty a tall, stoutly built man strode up to the building and entered. His dress indicated that he was of the employer class, and from the way in which a couple of workmen touched their caps as he passed, Willis had no doubt he was the managing director.
However, Hugo's intentions were the contrary. His unhappy request was to be excused from dinner this evening. There was, it seemed, the devil to pay over certain entanglements of the rate-case matter. He had found Mr. Deming, of his law firm, waiting for him at the hotel. Mr. Deming had come for a conference which could not be postponed; he had to get back to Washington by the nine-thirty train.
Bannister, a physician of the highest repute, and Lawyer Colbert, a bright and shining light of the legal profession?" "Your story taxes my credulity," said Quincy, "but I will not allow it to break our friendship. Tom, kindly ring for that supper to be sent up." He looked at his watch. "Doctor, you've time to spare. 'Tis only nine-thirty." Mr.
Men in khaki can buy all the liquor they want, the public houses being open from noon to two-thirty and from six P.M. to nine-thirty. Treating is not allowed. Altogether it works out very well and there is little drunkenness among the soldiers. I eventually brought up in a Convalescent Hospital in Brentford, Middlesex, and was there for three weeks.
On Sundays Joseph Loveredge had both eggs and bacon, but then allowed himself half an hour longer for reading the paper. At nine-thirty Joseph Loveredge left the house for the office of the old-established journal of which he was the incorruptible and honoured City editor. At one-forty-five, having left his office at one- thirty, Joseph Loveredge entered the Autolycus Club and sat down to lunch.
She was in a mood to be alone, to spend as many hours as possible alone with her own thoughts. She got to the office at eight and her employer did not arrive until nine-thirty or ten. For an hour or two in the morning and in the late afternoon she had the place to herself. Immediately she shut the door into the hallway and was alone she felt at home.
At nine-thirty that evening, when the manager sent the hall-boy to call her, she looked every inch the king's daughter she had dined. The hall-boy, accustomed to "creations," gave her a frank stare of admiration, which Patsy noted out of the tail of her eye. She was ravishing.
Somebody took them and naturally I jumped to the conclusion that you were the guilty party." Don Mike shaved in silence. "Do you know who removed those spark plugs, Mr. Farrel?" "Yes, sir, I do." "Who did it?" "Bill Conway. He came by last night and concluded it would be better to make quite certain that you remained away from El Toro until about nine-thirty o'clock this morning.
"Tell you more tomorrow," answered Starmidge. "When and if I know more. Nine-thirty, mind!" But when Starmidge met his companion of the night before at nine-thirty next morning, it was to find him in conversation with the other man, and to see dissatisfaction on the countenances of both. And Starmidge, a naturally keen observer, knew what had happened. He frowned as he looked at Gandam.
Presently he heard Storch's voice coming to his ears out of a friendly dusk: "It's nine-thirty...I guess we had better be moving." He did not stir at first...he merely sat staring at Storch, very much as a man waking suddenly and not yet alive to the precise details of his environment. "Moving...where?" he finally inquired. Storch crumpled the newspaper in his hand viciously.
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