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Kennedy shook his head non-committally. "I don't know. They are worried. It doesn't look as though they, at least, had the record that is, if Langhorne has really lost it." I wondered whether Langhorne might not, after all, as Kennedy had hinted, have concealed it elsewhere. The activity of Dorgan and Murtha might indicate that they knew more about the robbery than appeared yet on the surface.
The value or purpose of this last testimony, the non-receipt of the letter, was not clear to me, except upon the theory that the charge of robbery might fail if it could be proved by the defence that no letter was missing.
Brigandage has not only been a crying shame to the country, but has paralyzed business, kept visitors away from Mexico, and caused her to lose her national credit both in Europe and America. People will not invest money in great enterprises in regions where the persons of their agents are not safe, and where robbery and kidnapping are every-day occurrences.
It isn't highway robbery at all within the meaning of the term. We'll deal with it now eh, gentlemen?" There was a little more whispering, and finally the General settled himself and took up a quill pen. "Well, we'll deal with it now, my lad, as you wish. I'm sorry to see a fellow like you in this position particularly if you've had a good education, as you seem to have had.
Neither of them indulged in any unnecessary conversation. I knew that the Colonel was more upset by his son's reticence than by the robbery of the bonds, and that it was my presence alone which restrained him from giving vent to his anger. As we rose from the table he said stiffly: "Well, Rad, have you any suggestion as to how we shall set to work to track down the thief?"
It is generally believed, too, that he keeps his money, both the good and the bad, buried somewhere in the forest near his house, presumably for the double purpose of guarding against robbery by his tools and against surprise by the officers of the law. This, of course, is also mere speculation; nobody really knows anything about what he does.
"The energy of a Tacon is much needed to vivify the police of New Orleans. In a single paper we find an account of the execution of one man for robbery and intent to kill, of the arrest of another for stabbing a man to death with a carving knife; and of a third found murdered on the Levee on the previous Sunday morning.
"You'll know soon enough what club-men are," the old man answered, "if there's any more of this drunken dirty robbery I saw this afternoon. Those thieves who stole the farmer's cattle would have been shot in Oliver's time. They'd have cast lots on a drum in sight of all on us, drawn up. The men who got the low numbers would have been shot. The captains would have pistolled them where they stood.
She was happy that he spoke to her so openly about the matter, and that she might be useful to him in his work. "I understand all about it, Pasha," she said. "It's a piece of robbery. What's the name of the man? Yegor Ivanovich?" "Yes," said Pavel, smiling kindly. She returned late in the evening, exhausted but contented. "I saw Sashenka," she told her son. "She sends you her regards.
"Don't tell me that our scheme has failed!" "Perhaps I need not go so far as that. The first part of it came off all right, and then a very dreadful thing happened. We have got Mr. David Steel into frightful trouble. He is going to be charged with attempted murder and robbery." "Ruth! But tell me. I am quite in the dark." "It was the night when well, you know the night. It was after Mr.
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