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He fumbled inside his overcoat and tugged out his watch. "Here's a light," said Rogers, and shone the ray of an electric torch upon the watch-face. "A quarter-to-three," grumbled Stringer. "There may be murder going on, and here we are."... A sudden clamor arose upon the shore, near by; a sound as of sledge-hammers at work. But above this pierced shrilly the call of a police whistle.
"Then the case is very clear for my friend Wallingford," said I. "He is a wise man in your sense of the word wise, in resolutely putting away from his mind the image of one who, if she had been worthy of him, would have taken her place proudly by his side; but, proving herself unworthy, could never afterward be to him more than a friend or stringer.
Gimme leave to tow that barge anything to keep your freight off the Victor, an' we'll pull it up river for you " "Be a good feller, Gib. You usen'ter be hard an' spiteful like that," urged McGuffey. "I'll tow the barge free," wailed Scraggs. Mr. Gibney sat calmly down on the stringer and lit a cigar.
He's only the servant; and through the servant we hope to find the master." "But why in the east-end?" came the plaintive voice of Stringer; "for only one reason, that I can see because Max says that there's a Chinaman in the case." "There's opium in the case, isn't there?" said Dunbar, adding more water to his whisky, "and where there's opium there is pretty frequently a Chinaman."
Ash laughed at Henderson, taunted him, shook his bat at him and dared him to put one over. Henderson did not stand under fire. The ball he pitched had no steam. Ash cracked it square on the line into the shortstop's hands. The bleachers ceased yelling. Then Stringer strode grimly to the plate. It was a hundred to one, in that instance, that he would lose the ball.
It's that Dan Stringer." "He's got hold of a regular scamp, then. I never knew any good of Dan Stringer," said the archdeacon. Then Mrs Grantly was told, and the whole story was repeated again, with many expressions of commiseration in reference to all the Crawleys. The archdeacon did not join in these at first, being rather shy on that head.
This was Stringer, the detective to whom was assigned the tracing of the missing Soames; and he loomed up through the rain-mist, a glistening but dejected figure. "Any luck?" inquired Sowerby, sepulchrally. Stringer, a dark and morose looking man, shook his head. "I've beaten up every 'Chink' in Wapping and Limehouse, I should reckon," he said, plaintively.
If during this interval of peace he could find a maiden who would love him faithfully to death, he would be released: his wanderings would be o'er, and death would swallow him up. How the maiden's fidelity could be tested does not appear. Wagner would have it that with the Dutchman he ceased to be a mere stringer of opera verses and became the full poet.
The First Consul returned home in very ill-humour, and said to me, "Bourrienne, what a brute that Garat is! What a stringer of words! I have been obliged to listen to him for three-quarters of an hour. There are people who never know when to hold their tongues!"
Then it transpired that there were four candidates in the field; a Congressman, an ex-Governor, a silver-tongued orator named Stringer, who was a member of the upper branch of the State Legislature and who claimed to be a true defender of popular rights, and Hon. James O. Lyons.
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