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So, sir, it is my duty to inform you that I myself own a Colt's .32, as well as a Maxim silencer." "What!" Dundee exclaimed incredulously. He was conscious that, behind him, Captain Strawn was getting to his feet. "There is no need to get out your handcuffs, Captain Strawn!" Judge Marshall warned him majestically. "I assure you that I have not violated the law.
"Right-o, Jesse Strawn," Joe called back. "My bark is short-handed. I need lively recruits. Will ye enlist?" The boat's crew laughed at this as they reached out to lay hold of the raft while the two lads leaped aboard. Joe Hawkridge carried it off with rough bravado as though glad to be among his pals again.
"I haven't seen her yet " "Because she's in her room in the basement, Bonnie," Strawn answered. "Sort of forgot about her, didn't you?" and he chuckled at the younger man's discomfiture. "But I got her story out of her, you bet! Nothing to it, though. One of my boys Collins, it was found her in that short, dark hall that runs between the Selim woman's bedroom and the kitchen.
He stared after her in wonder as she went swiftly to the table and unlocked a drawer. He wondered more as she snatched out a folded paper and brought it to him. "Sign that," she said curtly. "Get it witnessed before a notary and send it to me and Helga Strawn will forget what she knows." A glance showed him the significance of the document.
We find the rather interesting fact that in Sacramento a man, giving his name as Arnold Wentworth paid to Wells Fargo and Company the sum of twenty thousand dollars in bills of a thousand dollars each for an order payable to Helga Strawn in New York. Now do you see where Helga Strawn comes in?" Shandon, merely puzzled, shook his head at the bright eyes suddenly turned upon him.
His purpose was to have Mrs. Strawn and Gloria relieve him of those social functions that are imposed upon the heads of all Governments. Mrs. Strawn was delighted with such an arrangement, and it almost compensated her for having been forced by her husband and Gloria into the ranks of the popular or insurgent party.
I want to have another talk with her, and if she bucks at spending the night here, I'll take her to the Rhodes House, and turn her over to my old friend, Mother Rhodes. We haven't anything on her, you know." "No, nor on anybody else, except that old fool, Marshall, and we can't clap him into jail yet," Strawn agreed, his grey eyes twinkling. "Take your crew on in, chief," Dundee urged.
The race would then go backward instead of lifting itself higher by the insistent desire to excel and to reap the rich reward that comes with success." "In the past, Mr. Strawn, your contention would be unanswerable, but the moral tone and thought of the world is changing. You take it for granted that man must have in sight some material reward in order to bring forth the best there is within him.
"Well, conceding that she was neither deaf nor half-blind, she would necessarily have heard and seen her assailant before he shot her." "What's the other explanation?" Strawn was becoming impatient.
Those caviar and anchovy sandwiches had certainly not stuck with him long.... He was making his way toward the electric refrigerator when he stopped as suddenly as if he had been shot. The kitchen door, which he had taken especial pains to assure himself was locked, when he had made the rounds immediately after the departure of Captain Strawn and his men, was standing slightly ajar!
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