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The Reno House, where Vandover had lived for some fifteen months, was a sort of hotel on Sacramento Street below Kearney. The neighbourhood was low just on the edge of the Barbary Coast, abounding in stores for second-hand clothing, saloons, pawnshops, gun-stores, bird-stores, and the shops of Chinese cobblers.
A darkey stole some money an' watches, an' that like." "They think he stole them," said Tom. "We can hardly believe it." "Why don't Captain Putnam hunt around them air pawnshops fer the watches?" went on Seth Dickerson, after a pause. "The thief would most likely pawn 'em, to my way of thinkin'." "He hasn't much of a chance to do that. But I presume the police will keep their eyes open."
"How long has the glass been missing?" resumed the detective. "Three days." "No doubt it has been pawned by this time. Your course is clear." "And what is that?" "To make a tour of the pawnshops, and ascertain whether such an article has been brought to any one of them." "Very well, Mr. Lynx. I leave the matter in your hands. I trust everything to your judgment." "Thank you.
As a result of this passion for gambling, the city is full of pawnshops, some streets containing scarcely anything else.
But I'm not used to going into pawnshops, and I walked about trying to make up my mind to go in and couldn't." "Well, wot did you do then?" ses Ginger, 'ardly able to contain hisself. "While I was trying to make up my mind," ses old Isaac, "I see a man with a barrer of lovely plants. 'E wasn't asking money for 'em, only old clothes."
Poverty cut them off from companionship with their equals. Mazzini was content to live on rice and potatoes, but the brothers Ruffini had moments of reaction. The joint household suffered from an invasion of needy exiles. There were quarrels and visits to the pawnshops. Debt and the difficulty of earning money added a sordid element. Mazzini made some friends when the Ruffinis left England.
Many of the party could not understand what the tall buildings in all the small villages could be. The fluent-talking Chinese officials, sent to escort our party, informed us that they were the pawnshops, and the wealth of the villages is determined by the number of their pawnshops, it being quite an honorable business in China, and all the inhabitants put their winter clothes in pawn.
If he had done so, he would have arrived there at twenty-four minutes past two. He reached there, in fact, at two-fifty, ten minutes of three. A half-hour of his time isn't accounted for. He left the hotel at two-twenty-one. Where did he spend that last half-hour? It's an interesting point." "Yes," Bristow said, surprised. "Pawnshops?" "Perhaps two pawnshops."
What an eager swarm of life in the great sunny square where the Venetian mast towered skywards, and pigeons sometimes strutted among the crowd that hovered about the countless shops under the encircling colonnade pawnshops, old-clo' shops, butcher-shops, wherein black-bearded men with yellow turbans bargained in Hebrew!
He flung off discouragement as if it had been an over-coat too warm for that weather. He would not permit Delaney's fiasco to annoy him. The Baltimore police had been tipped to watch the pawnshops; Delaney probably would pick Morley up again; and there was the extra man yet to be heard from. Besides, Morley would break down and confess cleanly after his fright on being arrested.
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