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'There's one man in the world who is going to get a little of it if I live for the next twenty-four hours, said Woodhouse, and explained how this would come about. Masquerier stared at him lengthily with gunmetal-blue eyes. 'You mean it? he drawled; the voice was as magnetic as the look. 'I do, said Ollyett.
The upshot of their talk, in the chimney-corner, was that Sir Thomas stood engaged to appear next Monday before his brother magistrates on charges of assault, disorderly conduct, and language calculated, etc. Ollyett was specially careful about the language. Then we left. The village looked very pretty in the late light pretty and tuneful as a nest of nightingales.
You ought to have one your side the county, Mike. They simply can't resist it. 'Whew! said Woodhouse. 'We're in for trouble. Don't you say a word or Ollyett either! I'll pay the fines and we'll get it over as soon as possible. Where's Pallant? 'At the back of the court somewhere, said Ollyett. 'I saw him slip in just now.
M.L. Sigden who suggested, through The Bun, that the little place might have begun life in Anglo-Saxon days as 'Hogslea' or among the Normans as 'Argilé, on account of its much clay. Oddly enough which is seldom the case with free reading-matter our subscribers rather relished the correspondence, and contemporaries quoted freely. 'The secret of power, said Ollyett, 'is not the big stick.
'You can testify I used no more force than was necessary to protect myself. You can testify that I have not even damaged this person's property. 'I I can't say I did, the sergeant stammered. 'Oh, but we did! said Ollyett, and repeated it, to the apron-veiled horror of the lodge-keeper's wife. Sir Thomas on a hard kitchen chair began to talk.
A week later, I think it was, Bat Masquerier telephoned to me to come to the Trefoil. 'It's your turn now, he said. 'I'm not asking Ollyett. Come to the stage-box. I went, and, as Bat's guest, was received as Royalty is not. We sat well back and looked out on the packed thousands.
Ollyett, who, of course, knew the place specially well, made the most of it to us. Bat, who had employed it as a back-cloth to one of his own dramas, dismissed it as a thing used and emptied, but Woodhouse expressed my feelings when he said: 'Is that all after all we've done? 'I know, said Ollyett soothingly. "Like that strange song I heard Apollo sing: When Ilion like a mist rose into towers."
It did not even interest Ollyett that the verb 'to huckle' had passed into the English leader-writers' language. We were studying the interior of a soul, flash-lighted to its grimiest corners by the dread of 'losing its position. 'And then it thanked you, didn't it, for dropping the case? said Pallant. 'Yes, and it sent me a telegram to confirm. Woodhouse turned to Bat.
Misprision of treason or compounding a felony or what? said Ollyett. 'I'll tell you later. Pallant went back to the paper with knitted brows, smiling unpleasantly from time to time. At last he laughed. 'Thank you! he said to Woodhouse. 'It ought to be pretty useful for us. 'What d'you mean? said Ollyett. 'For our side. They are all Rads who are mixed up in this from the Chief Constable down.
Pallant muttered 'Hear! hear! I saw Ollyett's eye flash it was to Ollyett that Masquerier addressed himself chiefly, and Woodhouse leaned forward with joined hands. 'Are you with me? he went on, gathering us all up in one sweep of the arm. 'When I begin a thing I see it through, gentlemen. What Bat can't break, breaks him! But I haven't struck that thing yet.
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