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Ruyler wondered if his stimulated imagination fancied a note of terror in it. "I I am afraid not darling " "But that Spaulding man will be there to watch " "Unfortunately I forgot to tell you he cannot go he is on an important case. Besides when I make a promise I usually keep it." "But but " She stammered as if her brain were confused, then turned and pressed her face to the window.
But whilst this last orderly was on his dark and weary way to me, my two dispatches finally got through, and at 10.20 Schofield wrote me from the cabin of the "Spaulding" as follows: "Your dispatch of 6 P.M. is just received, and is highly satisfactory. The one of an earlier date, but the hour not given, came at the same time. About seven o'clock I sent another to you directing you to come back.
Do do you remember any woman of the town named Marie Delano?" He swallowed hard but brought it out. "Who may have flourished here fifteen or twenty years ago?" Spaulding knew that Ruyler's wife had been named Delano, but he refrained from whistling and fixed his sharp honest blue eyes on the opposite wall. "Nope. Sounds fancy enough, but she was no Queen of the Red Light District in S.F."
"Yes, but I knew something about the length of your 'immediatelies' when Delia Spaulding was concerned." "You might have had Phil Trowbridge as an escort." "Phil Trowbridge! I hate him!" said Gertrude with such vehemence that the very line which parted her hair was crimsoned. "Well, what's that other man done?" asked the mother, who had not lost her interest in the original question.
Ruyler's tone was haughty. He did not relish being led round by the nose, and his nerves were jumping. "Now! Now!" said Spaulding soothingly, as he lit a cigar. "When you hire a detective you hire him to do things you wouldn't do yourself; and if you won't give him the little help he's got to have from you or quit, what's the use of hiring him at all?
"'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already, said I. "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson! said Vincent Spaulding. 'I should be able to look after that for you. "'What would be the hours? I asked. "'Ten to two. "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr.
Better, perhaps, the desire to kill a woman than to despise her He slammed the door when he entered the little room reserved for him, and barely restrained himself from flinging his hat into a corner and breaking a chair on the table. His languor had vanished. Spaulding followed him immediately.
One of the sights of S.F. Why of course she's your mother-in-law!" "Has there been any talk about her!" "Some comment on her size. And her childlike delight in watchin' the show." "Nothing else? No one has claimed to recognize her?" Spaulding sat up straight, his nose pointing. "Recognize her? What d'you mean?"
I used to be able to keep two assistants, but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the business." "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter assistant, Mr.
She slipped her hand into his for a second, then left the room, smiling over her shoulder, as the locally celebrated "Jake" Spaulding entered. Both Ruyler and his general manager had thought it best to have their cashier watched.
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