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Eltje Vanderveer smiled and flushed slightly as she noticed it, and then all her attention was concentrated upon the varying fortunes of the flying wheelmen. It was a five-mile race, and therefore a test of endurance rather than of strength or skill. There were two laps to the mile, and for seven of these Snyder Appleby held an easy lead.
Snyder's mouth opened, and he obviously was about to protest. But he appeared to think better of it and Oakes proceeded: "I then tested the suicide theory. What motive was there for suicide? There was no motive. Therefore, there was no suicide." This time Mr. Snyder spoke. "You haven't been spending the last few days in the wrong house by any chance, have you?
The preacher preached a funeral sermon for the boy, and on the little pyramid that marked the family lot in the burying-ground they carved the words: "Killed in honorable battle, Hiram Snyder, aged nineteen." Not long after, strange, yellow, bearded men in faded blue began to arrive.
Snyder had selected Oakes for the case in hand principally because it was one where inexperience could do no harm, and where the brilliant guesswork which Oakes preferred to call his inductive reasoning might achieve an unexpected success. Another motive actuated Mr. Snyder in his choice.
'Three thousand pounds is three thousand pounds, said Mark Snyder with terrible emphasis. And suddenly he laughed. 'You really wish me to act for you? 'I do, said Henry. 'Very well. Go home and finish book number two. And don't let it be a page longer than the first one. I'll see Onions Winter.
The hulls are about the same as the Snyder ships, only larger. But that new power system is so radically different they're going rapidly nuts trying to understand it. And they do have tractor-beams." No sooner had the messenger left after delivering the toogan than Hanlon had it out of the cage, and perched on the arm of his chair.
When I gits a little richer, so that I can stop work, I tend to go back to Maryland, and spend the rest of my days." "I wonder the Negroes don't attempt to get their freedom by physical force." "It ain't no use for 'em to try that, for if they do, we puts 'em through by daylight," replied Huckelby. "There are some desperate fellows among the slaves," said Snyder. "Indeed," remarked Carlton.
Hanlon threw himself onto the bed and lay there, trembling with awe at realization of the immensity of what he had done. How in the name of Snyder was such a thing possible? Reading a mind's impressions, even the surface thoughts, was well within the realms of possibility he knew, for he had done it himself.
The call for a State convention was obeyed with alacrity; and the outcome justified the high expectations which were entertained of this body. The convention nominated for governor, Adam W. Snyder, whose peculiar availability consisted in his having fathered the Judiciary Bill and the several acts which had been passed in aid of the Mormons.
The next moment the detective was reproaching himself with allowing his imagination to run away with his calmer judgment. The door opened, and Mrs. Pickett came in. She made no apology for her lateness. To Mr. Snyder one of the most remarkable points about the dinner was the peculiar metamorphosis of Mrs. Pickett from the brooding silent woman he had known to the gracious and considerate hostess.
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