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Updated: May 27, 2025
It cert'ny is nice livin' when you can wear fussy-fixy velvet and silk clothes and lacey waists. John Edward and Elmore, bein' boys, couldn't get no good of them, so we give John Edward the little lace-flounced umberill to carry and Elmore a painted open-and-shut fan. Them's the things the lady give us where mommer sews for," she explained, in answer to Miss Margery's bewildered look.
In the meantime, Erbe managed rapidly to tie up the legal aspects of the situation. The case, as it developed, proved to be open-and-shut against his client, but apparently unaffected by the certainty of this, he persisted in the interposition of all sorts of delays. Samuels continued to live undisturbed on his claim, which, as Thorne pointed out, had a bad moral effect on the community.
I never used to think I'd ever marry a man I never saw in fact, when I was young and silly I used to see myself strutting by whole regiments of fellers all making signs to me to come be his darling, but that was when my eyelids was glued down and before they was jerked open by trouble. Marrying with me in this case is an open-and-shut business proposition.
And yet day by day, word by word, hint by hint his eye on the future loyalty of the Everett faction at the polls he made the candidate understand that Arba Spinney was a man to be reckoned with that the convention was not an open-and-shut certainty for the machine. Without realizing how it had come about, Everett found himself discussing "political exigencies."
After getting a minute recital of what had happened in Washington and Baltimore, he agreed that Braceway was only setting up straw men for the pleasure of knocking them down. "Even if there is something mysterious in Morley's conduct, in what occurred in Baltimore," said the chief, "it can't do away with the open-and-shut fact that Perry did the murder." "Of course," Bristow commented.
"There's an old cabin up that way somewhere along that still place on the river. It was a trapping cabin belonging to old Bill Foulks." "That's true enough but it likely ain't near his mine. Boys, it's a clean, open-and-shut job with absolutely nothing to interfere. If his brother does come up, he'll find us in possession and nothing to do but go back.
If he don't get a term for hawss-stealin', I'm a liar. We got a dead open-and-shut case against him." The guard who was to take Dave to the penitentiary bustled in cheerfully. "All right, boys. If you're ready we'll be movin' down to the depot." The friends shook hands again. The warden handed him a ticket back to Denver, and with it a stereotyped little lecture of platitudes.
Answer by Bledsoe: "If you mean by performing an autopsy that they probed into him or cut in to find the bullet I will answer no, sir, they did not. They did not seem to think to do so, because it seemed to everybody such a plain open-and-shut case that Dudley Stackpole had killed him." Question by the Reverend Mr.
"I sure can; and the way we're heading it's a dead open-and-shut thing that we're just going to swing out over the water before another hour passes. Whew!" Andy finished his sentence with this significant exclamation. It was as though not only the novelty of the thing but its thrilling nature staggered him.
"And what " Miss Drayton smiled back at Lois and Bud and the baby "must I tell Santa Claus to bring you for Christmas, if I happen to see him?" "A doll, lady, please," answered Mrs. Callahan, eagerly, "a gre't big doll big as that baby pretty as a picture open-and-shut eyes real hair and curly. Lady, they'd rather have a real elegant doll than anything in the world."
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