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Updated: June 11, 2025
He was strolling benevolently, the little girl clinging to one of his hands, the other holding an apple; and a composite photograph of a thousand grandfathers might have resulted in this man's picture. As the man and little girl came slowly up the walk toward the couple on the bench there was a faint tinkle at Cora's feet: her companion's scarfpin, which had fallen from his tie.
Whatever else "Loge" was, Cleggett had little doubt that "Loge" was the tall man with the stoop shoulders and the odd, skull-shaped scarfpin, for whom he had conceived at first sight such a tingling hatred the same fellow who had so ruthlessly manhandled the flaxen-haired Heinrich on the roof of the verandah the day before.
When the results of this last well-intentioned effort with its disastrous consequences became clear to the Goat, that spotless gentleman leaned back in his chair, threw hick his shoulders, shot out his cuffs, readjusted his scarfpin and replied in an offended tone: "All owing, my dear fellow, to the stupidity of the agricultural class. I told the farmer he would regret it, and he will.
"Why, you see, sir, some of the cadets in this school are not good friends with me and Major Ruddy, and maybe they thought they would play a trick on us by taking his watch and chain and my scarfpin." "Humph! a mighty poor trick! Who are those cadets?" "I don't want to accuse them, Captain Putnam." "I understand. But who are the cadets?" "Reff Ritter and Gus Coulter." "Oh, yes, I remember now.
He took the bet, pulled her arms away from my throat, took my money and coat, brought her to, and said he was going to throw her into the crater, but I told him she had certainly been good to me, and if he would spare her life, and take her away in the cars, he could have my watch and scarfpin, and he took them, and they went to the cars.
Like a flash he realized that something was wrong. "See here, I want no more fooling, Nat," he said, sharply. "My watch and chain, my scarfpin, and thirty-three dollars in bills were taken from me, either by you or your companion. I want them back, and now!" "Dave, you er you don't mean that you you were robbed?" Nat could hardly utter the words.
"It's my ruby scarfpin, Jack. Did you see it?" "No, not for some time. Did you have it in that drawer?" "I did." "When did you wear it last?" "The night we took dinner with the Fords." "Are you sure you put it back when you came home?" "Positive. I keep it in this case," and Pepper held up an empty jewelry case. "Gracious! This is becoming interesting!" murmured the young major.
His diamond-and-opal scarfpin was gone, and the gold cuff links replaced with mother-of-pearl. She could be violently bitter about money, and when the flame of his personality was not there to be reckoned with, ten times a day she ejected him, with a venom that was a psychosis, out of her further toleration.
He looks like a country surgeon, doesn't he?" challenged Leaver, advancing. "London-made clothes, Bond-street neckwear, scarfpin from Rome, general air of confidence and calm. I assure you I was nowhere, when the family of my patient saw the lately arrived specialist from Berlin." "It's not on that patient I'm to do violence," Burns explained, at Ellen's look of astonishment.
"First my watch and chain and now your scarfpin!" He looked pointedly at his chum. "Pepper, do you think " He stopped short. "Think what, Jack?" "Oh, I'd hate to say it, Pepper," and the young major shrugged his shoulders. "Were you going to mention Ritter and Coulter?" "I was. But maybe it wouldn't be fair. It's a terrible thing to think anybody a thief." "That is true.
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