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Updated: May 10, 2025
"You're a nice lot of fellows to go sleuthing," laughed Jack Bosworth. "Why, it was no trick at all to follow you. If the police are as prompt and industrious as we were, they're out here in the hills somewhere right now, after Fremont."
But on the day he had avenged the death of his brother Anson, the feud between him and the sheriff had degenerated to murder. A hundred times since he had wished that he had gone to meet the officer alone. "He had his kid with him. Afterward they shipped him out of the country to an aunt in Denver. He went to school there. Well, I've had a little sleuthing done." "And you've found out ?"
He was used to driving himself through discomfort to his end, and he expected as much of his deputies. Wherefore Wally took the boat at the time scheduled and waved a dismal farewell to wife and friends assembled upon the wharf. Diane was very frank with him. "I hear you've been sleuthing around, Gordon, for facts about Colby Macdonald.
Toting around a large and awkward collection of six pairs of shoes in my arms, through the dark corridors of an ancient castle in the middle of the night, was certainly something new in my sleuthing experience, and I so expressed myself when we finally got back to our own room, and Holmes had closed the door behind us.
He addressed it and gave it to the waitress to drop in the mail-box. He had no money to squander on detectives, but he had a friend, Connery, who as a reporter had achieved a few bits of sleuthing in cases that had baffled the police. That evening Gilfoyle went hunting for Connery. Kedzie simmered in her own wrath a long while before she realized that she had let Gilfoyle escape.
In the light of your early police court career I might say that this last bit of sleuthing merely adds to your reputation in Oakdale as an apostle of justice. I forgive you, of course, and do not blame you very severely. You were rather shabbily dealt with, but still you must consider that if you had kept your promise to me this annoying episode would never have taken place.
Nelson wouldn't take money from a girl not even borrow it!" However, Janice stuck to her text with Massey and obtained the list of the lost collection to look at. "Dunno what you want it for," said the druggist. "You going sleuthing for the thief, Miss Janice?" "Maybe," she returned, with a serious smile.
Except for this note-taking, however, Peter's sleuthing was easy work, for these people all seemed eager to talk about what they were doing; sometimes it frightened Peter they were so open and defiant!
"Not a bit of it," protested Arline stoutly. "I only wish Ruth were my sister." "I'd like to be the one to find Ruth's father," mused Grace. Anne smiled. "Even college can't uproot Grace's sleuthing tendencies. She has an absolute genius for ferreting out mysteries." "No, I haven't," contradicted Grace. "If I had " she stopped.
And as I see it, wasting time and energy in shall we call it sleuthing, Mr. Elliott? won't help us much. We thought that lack of time and the general nature of this country were going to be handicap enough. But now your money is in and I I never did like to be beaten. Can't we let it stand like that, at least until some one else makes a plainer move? We know the cards we hold.
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