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Updated: September 8, 2025
The amateur detective still wore his rain-coat, but his hat he had exchanged for a cap, and, instead of a collar, he had knotted around his bare neck a dirty kerchief. At the end of the street they halted, and in some embarrassment Ford raised his voice in the chorus of a song well known in the music-halls.
I felt it necessary to make a very thorough search. In the pocket of your rain-coat I found" Lieutenant Hall produced from his desk a pouch of tobacco and a well-seasoned pipe "these." The officer in charge looked keenly at Darrin, who had turned almost deathly white. Certainly Dave had the appearance of one wholly guilty. "Have you anything to say, Mr. Darrin?" continued the officer in charge.
I shall 'phone for a detective at once!" "Cornelia, you'll do nothing of the kind," her brother protested, now thoroughly aroused. "I'll agree to pay for the hat and the rain-coat if they are not forthcoming before a fortnight passes, but you simply shall not ruin that poor girl's reputation. I insist, Mother, that you put a stop to such rash proceedings.
Making a long round to avoid the elevators, he dragged himself up two flights of stairs and so came to his goal. Enveloped in a rain-coat, and with a soft hat drawn well over his eyes, he compassed the escape from the upper floor by means of the remote stair he had used in ascending, and so reached the ground-floor.
Your feet will be dusty from your long walk, and you must have a fresh pair for the second day. Where is your rain-coat?" "Rain-coat? Why, I never thought of it." "A checker-board would not keep the rain from wetting you should there come up a sudden shower. You must have it in, no matter what you leave at home." "Paul and Fritz did not say they would take their rain-coats in their knapsacks."
Peroo nodded with bright eyes. "In a little in a little the Sahib will find that he thinks well again. I too will " He dived into his treasure-box, resettled the rain-coat over his head, and squatted down to watch the boats. It was too dark now to see beyond the first pier, and the night seemed to have given the river new strength. Findlayson stood with his chin on his chest, thinking.
Miss Ingram smiled thoughtfully. "At eleven, then," she said, "in front of the Holland House." Carter walked away with a flurried, heated suffocation around his heart and a joyous lightness in his feet. Of the first man he met he demanded, "Who was the beautiful girl in the rain-coat?" And when the man told him, Carter left him without speaking. For she was quite the richest girl in America.
He was on the point of repeating his sturdy call for help, when a four-wheeler swung in beside his wagon-step, and delivered itself of a square-shouldered, heavy-jawed figure, muffled to the ears in a rain-coat. The newcomer took in the situation with a rapid and comprehensive glance of relief.
It was evident that the first man expected him, for he showed no surprise at his coming, and the two sat down together on the bench and began to talk. The wind had now subsided a little, and though they spoke in low tones the children could hear every word. "Whew!" said the soldier as he shook his rain-coat. "Nasty weather." "All the better for our purposes," answered the other man.
He searched hurriedly through the wrappings, pulled out the hat quite unceremoniously, and turned the box upside down, but nothing else could he find. Then he went at the suit-case. Yes, there was the rain-coat. He took it out triumphantly, for now his mother could say nothing, and, moreover, was not his trust in the fair stranger justified? He had done well to believe in her.
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