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He felt that he could rest upon it in the fate he was bringing himself to face; he instinctively desired the kindly, lying sympathy of a soul that had so much affinity with his own. He telegraphed Pinney to come for him, and he was impatient till he came. Pinney started the instant he received Northwick's telegram, and met him with an enthusiasm of congratulation. "Well, Mr.
Then Pinney got back to his berth, and fell heavily asleep. He knew it was late when he woke. The boat was at rest, and must be lying at her landing in Quebec. He heard the passengers outside hurrying down the cabin to go ashore.
"You may be sure I won't let you out of my sight again," said Pinney. He took a telegraphic blank from his breast pocket, and addressed it to Matt Hilary: "Our friend here all right with me at Murdock's Hotel." He counted the words to see that there were no more than ten; then he called a waiter, and sent the despatch to the office. "Tell 'em to pay it, and set it down against me.
In making up his mind to return at all hazards and to take all the chances, he remembered what Pinney had said to him about his willingness to bear him company.
It was not wholly a generous impulse that prompted him to send for Pinney, or the self-sacrificing desire to make Pinney's fortune in his new quality of detective; he simply dreaded the long journey alone; he wanted the comfort of Pinney's society. He liked Pinney, and he longed for the vulgar cheerfulness of his buoyant spirit.
Pinney had no need to use arguments or adjurations to induce Lansing to adopt his suggestion. The man before him was in no mood to balance probabilities against improbabilities. It was enough that the project offered a chance of success, albeit infinitesimal; for on the other hand there was nothing but an intolerable despair, and a fate that truly seemed more than flesh and blood could bear.
Nothing like ham and eggs for a headache." The other unfolded his paper napkin. "Have you got anything worth while?" "Lots of public opinion and local color," said Pinney. "Have you?" "I've been half crazy with this headache. I suppose we brought most of the news with us," he suggested. "Well, I don't know about that," said Pinney. "I do. You got your tip straight from headquarters.
The Events is going to send me to do the Social Science Congress which meets in Quebec this year, and I'm going to take Mrs. Pinney along and have a good time. She's got so she can travel first-rate, now; and the change will do her and the baby both good. I shall interview the social science wiseacres, and do their proceedings, of course, but the thing that I'm onto is Northwick.
I take my own wherever I find it, as George Washington said." "Your own, you thief!" said Maxwell, with sardonic amusement. "You don't know what the word means." "I can make a pretty good guess, thank you," said Pinney, putting up his book. "Do you want to trade?" Maxwell asked, after his tea came, and he had revived himself with a sip or two. "Any scoops?" asked Pinney, warily.
"Captain," said Bok, hailing the officer, "you can attend to that, can't you, when the time comes?" "I sure can, and I sure will," answered the Captain. And with a quick salute, Pinney and his porker went off across the road! Bok was standing talking to the commandant of one of the great French army supply depots one morning. He was a man of forty; a colonel in the regular French army.
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