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He wanted to know what he looked like, and whether it was true that he was like the portrait." "Indeed!" exclaimed Palford and Grimby, simultaneously. "It struck me that there was something more than mere curiosity in his manner," Palliser enlarged. "I couldn't make him out then. Later, I began to see that he was remarkably anxious to keep every one from Strangeways.
A story less incredible might have been more considered; but the highly colored reasons given for the absence of the owner of Temple Barholm would, if heard of, have been more than likely to be received and passed over with a smile. The manner of Mr. Palford and also of Mr.
It was vaguely supposed to imply some intensely feminine fancy-work done by old ladies, and used as a figure of speech in jokes. "If you could ride or shoot, you could amuse yourself in the country," Palford had said. "I can ride in a street-car when I've got five cents," Tembarom had answered. " That's as far as I've gone in riding and what in thunder should I shoot?" "Game," replied Mr.
"Not exactly that, but " "But what?" prompted Palford as she hesitated. "Please try to recall exactly what he said. It is most important." The fact that his manner was almost eager, and that eagerness was not his habit, made her catch her breath and look more questioning and puzzled than before. "One day he came to my sitting-room when he seemed rather excited," she explained.
Grimby gave more than one dubious and distressed glance at Palford. "His interest was evident," remarked Palford, thoughtfully. "And unusual under the circumstances." For a moment he hesitated, then put another question: "Did he ever seem I should say, do you remember any occasion when he appeared to think that there might be any reason to doubt that Mr.
It was a sort of Man in the Iron Mask affair. Strangeways was apparently not only too excitable to be looked at or spoken to, but too excitable to be spoken of. He wouldn't talk about him." "That is exceedingly curious," remarked Mr. Palford, but it was not in response to Palliser. A few moments before he had suddenly looked thoughtful.
But, then, he had a trick of saying things incomprehensibly ridiculous with an unmoved expression of gravity, which led Palford to feel that he was ridiculous through utter ignorance and was not aware that he was exposing the fact.
It's screwed on th' right way his head is," grunted Hutchinson. "The curious fellow has a number of friends," the duke remarked to Palford and Grimby, in his impartial tone. "I am hoping you are not thinking of cross-examining me. I have always been convinced that under cross-examination I could be induced to innocently give evidence condemnatory to both sides of any case whatever.
"Captain Palliser obliged Mr. Temple Temple Barholm to confess that he had known for some time," Mr. Palford said with cold regret. "He also informed him that he should communicate with us without delay." "Captain Palliser is a bad man." Miss Alicia choked back a gasp to make the protest. "It was after their interview that Mr. Temple Barholm almost immediately left the house."
The jokes were about bishops in gaiters, about garden-parties, about curates or lovely young ladies or rectors' wives and rustics, about Royal Academicians or esthetic poets. Their humor appealed to him as little and seemed as obscure as his had seemed to Mr. Palford. "I'm not laughing my head off much over these," he said. "I guess I'm not on to the point." He got up and walked about.
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