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Updated: May 14, 2025
There is such a thing as being an accessory to crime by concealment. There is no wrath like that of , etc. A little detective work along a certain line might unearth some startling finds. A hint to the wise is sufficient." Sir Donald received a marked copy of the paper containing this screed, but concealed it from his daughter.
Then the Captain demanded pen, ink, and paper; and when they were brought he laboriously wrote out a screed to the effect that Webster Saunders had received of Elsie Preston forty-four dollars, which sum he promised to pay on demand. "There," he said, pushing the writing materials across the table. "Sign that." At first Mr. Saunders positively refused to sign.
Yet as Irene had guessed correctly this magnificent progress through the desert contained a canker that threatened its destruction. Either von Kerber's calculations were at fault, or the papyrus was a madman's screed. The caravan was already two marches beyond the point agreed on by every authority consulted as that fixed by the Greek who survived the massacre of the Roman legion.
"There!" she added, pointing at monstrous black headlines on the page as I weakly took it from her. And then I saw. There before them, divining now the enormity of what had come to pass, I controlled myself to master the following screed: RED GAP'S DISTINGUISHED VISITOR
I ask you to tell me about yourself what you're feeling and thinking and you send me some ghastly screed about Spinoza or Kant. Do you suppose any man wants to hear what his sweetheart thinks about Space and Time and the Ding-an-sich?" "You used to like it." "I don't like it now. No woman would wear those horrible clothes if she cared for a man and wanted him to care for her.
"You remember I looked at the watermark on that first warning we received from these terrible demons. Well, this screed has the same mark 'Griffin Bond. When I was in town to-day I went into the bank. Old man Creviss was behind the counter, and that precious son of his was beside him. I had a check cashed, and Mr. Creviss asked me why we didn't keep our bank account there.
"I mean, isn't this all a blind? Wasn't that letter written just to put us on the wrong track? Why should the man have taken the trouble to make all that long screed just for the sake of jeering, when he wouldn't be here to see what effect his smart sarcasms would have?
Eh, Mr Henry! but the carle gae them a screed o' doctrine! Ye might hae heard him a mile down the wind He routed like a cow in a fremd loaning.
Whan I was a callan, I took the play to mysel' for a week, or maybe twa, and gaed wi' a frien' i' the same trade's mysel', to see what was to be seen alang a screed o' the sea-coast, frae toon to toon. My compaingon wasna that gude at the traivellin'; and upo' the Setterday nicht, there we war in a public-hoose, and him no able to gang ae fit further, for sair heels and taes.
'Although it's but early hours, said the farmer, who had observed that his friend looked somewhat pale and fatigued, 'I think we had better lie down, Captain, if ye're no agreeable to another cheerer. But troth, ye're nae glass-breaker; and neither am I, unless it be a screed wi' the neighbours, or when I'm on a ramble.
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