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He himself had gone westwards to Virginia, and other parts of the American mainland, and could relate wonders from his own experiences. He talked for full two hours, and both Mrs. Stowe and Dorothy stole in to listen. The next day Paignton Rob and his two stranded comrades found themselves seated at Mistress Stowe's table to dinner. Morgan and the captain hung about the aisles of St.
If thou wouldst find a hawk, needs must that thou find a hawk's nest; no other bird's will serve thy purpose that is my position. Is there any chance that I shall light upon some forest fellow during Yule-tide business in Gloucester?" "That I cannot say; but I may be able to help thee. Whom dost thou seek?" "A Devon man, Rob of Paignton." "Thou art hunting a bundle of hay to find a needle.
"Indeed it may be a good thing to happen; for the alternative can at best be Broadmoor; and it is a hateful thought that a man who has fought for his country, and fought well, should end his days in a criminal lunatic asylum." For two days the detective remained at Paignton and devoted all his energy, invention, and experience to the task of discovering the vanished men.
The breeze blows it from her hair; she shakes it with a careless laugh from her silken garments; the slaves walk behind on a gold-strewn pathway. They value it no more than the beggar values the dust that blows along the Chepe in London on a July day. Ah! a gloriously generous headpiece hath Paignton Rob. Why stint the tale of glittering grains?
It was now light, but Paignton slumbered and I did not pass a policeman until half a mile from the watering-place. Having admired the dawn over Torquay, I walked to Newton Abbot and reached that town before six o'clock. At the railway station I breakfasted and presently took a train to Dartmouth. Before noon I reached "Crow's Nest" and made acquaintance with Bendigo Redmayne.
Paignton Rob, whom I seek, hath a head ill-balanced by the loss of an ear and its ear-ring, because the priests chose to set a mark upon him. But thou and I are of more generous blood; we have seen the world, and found honest men in all religions ay, and rogues in them all too.
The beautiful hospital of 250 beds at Paignton, in North Devon, run entirely by women of American birth now resident in Great Britain, without any financial aid from the British Government, was another large country house given to the service of the wounded by Mr. Singer.
After this Jeffreys ordered fresh flagons of wine, and asked Paignton Rob for his story. "Will Master Morgan care for the recital?" queried Rob. "My ears are burning," cried Johnnie. "I seem to have strolled out of Chepe this morning right into America. Stint not a word of thy story if thou hast any desire to please me." "So be it, friends.
To-day, as the train, having passed the station of Torre, proceeds toward that of Paignton, the traveler sees, looking inland at the Cockington and Chelston slopes, a throng of villas intermixed with the relics of ancient hedgerows.
They called him at ten o'clock no answer. They went in his room. Not there and bed not slept in and his clothes not changed. He's not been seen since." "Hold on. Mark Brendon's here and has the case. He'll speak." Inspector Halfyard reported the statement and Brendon picked up the mouthpiece. "Detective Brendon speaking. Who is it?" "Inspector Reece, Paignton."
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