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Rosalie locked the office-door and followed the others quickly. In front of the Hotel Trois Couronnes a painful thing was happening. Germain Boily, the horse-trainer, fresh from his disappointment with the widow Plomondon, had driven his tamed moose up to the Trois Couronnes, and had drunk enough whiskey to make him ill-tempered.
"I should like to know," he continued, as he locked the office-door, "if that Lucy told me true, if those were all the papers. No will, no memorandum for one! Well, perhaps Mrs. Kinloch was careful enough to give that secret to the keeping of the flames, instead of her bureau. I will make close copies of what I have got for Lucy to put back, and keep the originals myself.
There is a momentary sensation of the freedom of the woods, a whiff of oxygen for the anxious money-changers. How agreeably sounds the news to all but his creditors that the lawyer or the merchant has locked his office-door and gone fishing!
In spite of all the old-fogyism in the world! Miss Merrill!" The office-door opened, and a pompadour, followed by a demure young lady, entered the room. She slipped quietly into a chair beside the president's desk and laid her copy-book on the slide of the desk and waited while her employer arranged the words in his mind. Her pencil was delicately poised above the ruled page.
Rosalie locked the office-door and followed the others quickly. In front of the Hotel Trois Couronnes a painful thing was happening. Germain Boily, the horse-trainer, fresh from his disappointment with the widow Plomondon, had driven his tamed moose up to the Trois Couronnes, and had drunk enough whiskey to make him ill-tempered.
'He was looking so thin, and had such a cough, I was quite concerned when he walked out here on Good Friday afternoon, continued Mrs. Froggatt. 'I hope he is taking care. 'Wilmet is always at him about it, said Lance. 'That is right. And I hope he minds to keep the office-door shut. It is such a draughty place! Does he wear flannel, do you know, my dear? 'I think so, said Robina.
Macpherson became president of the Western District Branch of the "Remarkable Colonials" Defence League, a fierce and homicidal association got up to resist, legally and otherwise, paying for the book. He had further sworn by all he held sacred that every canvasser who came to harry him in future should die, and had put up a notice on his office-door, "Canvassers come in at their own risk."
Mr. Sandford had gone out on business, was the answer. He had not gone far, if the truth were known; for his position commanded the office-door, and he saw every visitor. Time did not lag that eventful day; the hands seemed to sweep round the dial on the Old State House as though they had been swords in pursuit of some dilatory debtor.
A low rap at the office-door interrupted him. Dickie Lang entered with McCoy and Hawkins. "We've been out for a walk," she announced. "Thought we'd stop in and see if you'd heard anything from the boys yet." "Not yet," Gregory answered. "I'm going to keep a man at the key all night. We should have heard before this.
Marlowe," turning up the steps. Old Mr. King walked down the store-length as if he owned the whole with several others of its kind thrown in, and on Jasper's pausing before a small office-door, marked "private," heard him say through its open window, "Good-morning, Mr. Marlowe." "Ah, good-morning," came back quickly, and Mr.
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