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Returning, he quickly plucked a stick-pin from the prisoner's scarf, saying, while he suited his action to his words: "See, now I place the deuce of spades over his heart as a warning. He can't leave the camp, and he never plays cyards again see?" And while the men, awed to silence, stood looking at one another, he instructed Handsome to pass the word through the camp. "Ow, now, don't si that!
He was of that type of man-animal that lends itself to fairly accurate cataloguing at the end of the first five minutes' acquaintance. The most striking of the physical attributes about his person as he entered were his little mustache and neatly trimmed beard and the diamond stick-pin in his tie.
But the coat, the tie, the little stick-pin on the lapel of my coat all unite to bring back to me with painful stir, the curious debates, the boyish delights, the dawning desires which led me to these material expressions of manly pride. There is a kind of pathos too, in the memory of the keen pleasure I took in that absurd ornament and yet my joy was genuine, my satisfaction complete.
I took up the issue of the following day the twenty-eighth: "RANGOON: We have been forced to sell father's stick-pin the emerald scarab he brought home from Cairo." I had Bray's interest now. He leaned heavily toward me, puffing. Greatly excited, I held before his eyes the issue of the twenty-ninth: "RANGOON: Homburg hat gone forever caught by a breeze into the river."
This gave me an idea. Carrying it back with me into the recess, I got down on my knees, and first taking the precaution to toss a little stick-pin of mine under the cabinet to be reached after in case I was detected there by Nixon, I insinuated the cutter between the base-board and the floor and found that I could not only push it in an inch or more before striking the brick, but run it quite freely around from one corner of the recess to the other.
And Holmes scowled at the fat footman before him, who fidgeted uneasily as he replied: "Well, er, ah, yes; Hi was put in chokey once about ten years ago for lifting a diamond stick-pin belonging to a fellow-servant when Hi was working for the Duke of Bridgerswold; but Hi gave it back to him, Hi hassure you Hi did, Mr. 'Olmes."
The driver was alone, and as he climbed out to inspect his tires, he confronted what looked to his startled eyes like a dozen masked men. Solemnly they went through his pockets while he stood with his hands high above him. They took his half-plug of chewing tobacco and a ten-cent stick-pin from his tie, and afterwards made him crank his car and climb back into the seat and go on.
She was natural. Two things I noticed about her especially. Her belt buckle was exactly in the middle of her back, and she didn't tell us that a large man with a ruby stick-pin had followed her up all the way from Fourteenth Street. Was Kerner such a fool? I wondered.
Oh, yes, I prayed all right, but I searched, too. And there it was. What I said to that woman I don't know even now. I flew out through the hall and down the steps and And there Kitty Wilson corralled me. "Say, where's that stick-pin?" she cried. "Here! here, you darling!" I said, pressing it into her hand. "And, Kitty, whenever you feel like swiping another purse just don't do it. It doesn't pay.
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