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There were two men after her. He seemed to visualize the situation as a scrap from the stop-press of a newspaper. Also ran. Luke Sharper, Esq. He recalled some of the things Jona had said to him in the tool-shed. She had been rather frank in speaking of her husband. "Bill's wonderful," she said. "He caught the tiger last night. When the keeper couldn't get it. He does everything well.
Casually he turned over an evening paper. "I see there's good news about Mr. Silver's Bank," he said. "It's weathered the storm." He pointed out to her a paragraph in the stop-press column. The Man with the Gamp The good news was confirmed. That night a telegram came from Mr. Silver to say he was coming down next morning and asking them to meet him at Lewes.
Raffles let it pass; he had been talking of the close-of-play scores in the stop-press column, and I thought he was studying them rather silently. Or perhaps he was not studying them at all, but still thinking of Camilla Belsize, and the look from those brave bright eyes that she had never meant him to see.
Well, wait a bit; the local police won't thank you for knocking them up at this hour. And I bought a late edition which you ought to see; that must be it on the floor. You have a look in the stop-press column, Bunny." I found the place with a sunken heart, and this is what I read: WEST-END OUTRAGE
"We were coming up the Via Venti Settembre again to the Verdi, under those arches, when I saw my brother. He was standing by a little table set out by the kerb where an old woman was selling lottery-tickets. It used to be as much to the Italians as horse-racing is with English people. The evening papers had the winning numbers in the stop-press column.
Only by the exercise of that hard self-control, of which women alone are capable, did she refrain from tumbling against the blue-clad breast of Adams, the Cheswardine coachman. She purchased the Signal with well-feigned calm, opened it and read: 'Stop-press news. Pekin. Li Hung Chang, the celebrated Chinese statesman, died at two o'clock this morning. Reuter.
And a famous descriptive reporter of the Sunday News had got lodgings, at a high figure, exactly opposite No. 29. Priam and Alice could do nothing without publicity. And if it would be an exaggeration to assert, that evening papers appeared with Stop-press News: "5.40. Mrs. Leek went out shopping," the exaggeration would not be very extravagant.
He snatched a paper from a boy as the train moved out and; unfolding it, found a mere announcement in the space reserved for stop-press news: "Mr. Stephen Aylmore, M.P., was arrested at two o'clock this afternoon, on his way to the House of Commons, on a charge of being concerned in the murder of John Marbury in Middle Temple Lane on the night of June 21st last.
It contained a detailed report of the breaking of the Portuguese centre near Richebourg St. Vaast on April 10, and the consequent retreat, over some seven miles, since that day of the British line, together with the more recent news of the capture of Armentières and Merville. Sitting down at his own table he read the telegrams again, and then in the stop-press Sir Douglas Haig's Order of the Day
He went to the office and obtained a copy of The Advocate of India, the evening newspaper of the city. He looked at the stop-press telegrams. There was no mention of Ballantyne's death. Nor on glancing down the columns could he find in any paragraph a statement that any mishap had befallen him.
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