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Peckham and billed at four hundred per cent of the regular retail price. Then he reinserted the stogy between his lips and produced from his inside pocket a typewritten sheet. "There's Watkins murdered his stepmother indicted seven months ago. Give you murder in the second?" "I'll take it," assented Peckham, lighting a cigar in a businesslike manner. "What else you got?"
"At this point of his confession John Campbell glared savagely at me for assent, and set down a sadly frayed and noxious stogy on Nickerson's black walnut. I hastened to agree, though much of the doctrine was heresy to a realist, only objecting: 'But one really has to draw a scene such as you describe just like any other. In fact, the drawing of atmosphere is the most difficult branch of our art.
Sorg he found his partner smoking the usual stogy and gazing pensively down upon the harbor.
Well, Ameriky is good enough fer me an' mine," complacently. "I dare say!" "An' if this stogy continues t' behave, we'll say no more about the vanishin' leddy." And with this the policeman strolled off into the fog, his suspicions in nowise removed. He knew many rich young bachelors like Hillard.
Each of us put on a rough, heavy suit of clothing, woolen army shirt and "stogy" boots included; and into the valise we crowded a few white shirts, some under-clothing and such things.
He almost bumped into Philip Plotkin, of Kleinberg & Plotkin, who was licking the refractory wrapper of a Wheeling stogy, with one eye fixed on the automobile in front of his competitors' store. "Hallo, Mawruss," Philip cried. "Pretty high-toned customers you must got it when they come down to the store in oitermobiles, ain't it?"
"And you might as well wipe him off the list." "Anything the matter with the indictment?" asked the D.A. "Caput Magnus drew it. He's a good man, you know." Mr. Tutt drew sententiously on his stogy. "I would like to tell you all my secrets," he replied after a pause, "but I can't afford to. The indictment is in the usual form.
Tutt, finally succeeding in his attempt to make a damp stogy continue in a state of combustion. "If you murdered a tyrant wouldn't you be contributing toward progress?" "No," retorted Miss Wiggin, "you wouldn't; and you know it.
"That is true!" she admitted, "but tell it not in Gath!" "A shyster," began Mr. Tutt, unsuccessfully applying a forced draft to his stogy and then throwing it away, "bears about the same relation to an honest lawyer as a cad does to a gentleman. The fact that he's well dressed, belongs to a good club and has his name in the Social Register doesn't affect the situation.
I don't have to hear about it. Don't want to read the plan. But I'll bust it higher than Hades. See if I don't!" He spat the remaining filaments of his stogy from the window and fished out another. "How do we come into it, anyhow?" he demanded. "Doctor I mean Mister Barrows," replied Miss Wiggin. "Oh, yes. Of course. Well, you send for him to come down here and sign the papers." "What papers?"
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