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He went across the road to the inn, got his breakfast, returned to his room, donned his broadcloth coat, made thirty years before in London, took from his strong-box notes to the amount of twenty-six hundred dollars, and left for Indianapolis by the noon stage. At Indianapolis he sold the notes and brought back Dic's gold. This he kept in his iron box during the day and under his pillow at night.
They meant that secret room to be the strong-box, the inviolate hiding-place which should keep what might be entrusted to it. It was, as it were, the heart of Hynds House. "Remember that Richard's father died of a stroke of apoplexy, and without speaking. Thus Freeman would know no more than Richard did. There was but one person alive who knew, and that was " "A slave?"
That campaign set my blood to rights. I'm ten years younger," he exclaimed, pounding his chest. "That's a good strong-box, isn't it?" and he coughed loudly to thoroughly convince of its solidity. "France can still count on me! I was ready for war, and I shall be prepared for peace." "Just wait till it gets here," murmured some woman.
To attain the latter through the Duke of Mantua, it was necessary to make a good impression on Annibale Chieppo, the Duke's Minister of State. Chieppo had the keeping of the ducal conscience as well as the key to the strong-box.
The day after they had taken their great resolution, they went down town in a body, and invested most of the funds at the disposal of the syndicate in an elaborate toy bank, in the form of a dog who stolidly swallowed their stray bits of silver and nickel into an iron strong-box below, which nothing but a powerful hammer could ever succeed in opening.
"Yes, for he was mine once. You will not bear witness against him before the judge? Is he not punished enough in losing me? Am I not punished?" "Silence!" exclaimed the old man, in a terrible voice. His hand, trembling with passion, had struck against the strong-box, and at its touch his wrath broke out in flame. "That man is dead to you henceforth! You gave your promise without conditions.
After much labour they entered, and found the old miser dead in his strong-box, the secret spring of which he had apparently not been able to find, after having locked himself in; a horrible end in every respect. The Brissacs have not been very particular in their alliances for some time, and yet appear no richer. The gold flies away; the dross remains.
The work of Stizus ruficornis can at once be recognized, among all the other cocoons of a similar nature, by this protuberance. Its origin will be explained by the method which the larva follows in constructing its strong-box.
Had she not, by this policy, conquered the cold, Scottish exclusiveness of Inverness-shire, so that the right sort of people fought to be at her house-parties during the shooting, even though she would persist in travelling back and forth to London in gowns that would be conspicuously elaborate at an afternoon reception, and even though, in any condition of dress, she never left quite enough of her jewels in their strong-box?
Would that my grave might lack filling, as long as my little strong-box here; I'd willingly allow it." "And so would I!" laughed the soldier: "Then travelling will be easy for you," said the artist. "There was a time, when my pouch was no fuller than yours. I know by the experience of those days how a poor man feels, and never wish to forget it.
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