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Anybody else got anything to say? If not, we'll adjourn." Caleb followed his son out and across the yard to the old log homestead which still served as the superintendent's office and laboratory. When the door was shut, he dropped heavily into a chair. "Son," he said brokenly, "you're you're crazy plum' crazy. Don't you know you can't do the first one o' these things you've been promisin'?"
I tell you, this bit of information has set me to thinking, and the outcome of my thoughts is a simple question: 'Are we men or brutes? That is what I want to know, and as it concerns you two as well as me, I'm going to ask you to answer it!" There was the silence of death in the superintendent's office. Even Mr. Denton stood perfectly still as he asked his question. Suddenly Mr.
I respect your scruples, Mr. Lidgerwood. But it is no longer a personal matter between you and Hallock: the company's interests are involved." Without suspecting it, the trainmaster had found the weak joint in the superintendent's armor. For the company's sake the personal point of view must be ignored. "It is such a despicable thing," he protested, as one who yields reluctantly.
Thoughtful and subdued in spirit, Hamilton strolled back to the night superintendent's office, where he found the figures done at last and the completed schedule awaiting him. He gratefully accepted the offer of a cup of coffee, from some which had just been sent in, and sat down beside the desk. "I've been talking with the 'crusader," he remarked.
For a moment Faith could hardly believe her senses. She stared at him stupidly, while her limbs trembled beneath her. Instantly a suspicion darted through her brain. She remembered that he, too, had been in the superintendent's office that evening, and that it was possible, even probable, that he knew something about the money. "Oh, Miss Marvin, this is dreadful!" he managed to say at last.
One of them, ahead of the others, carried a bull's-eye lamp and in swinging it about revealed himself as one of the superintendent's own officers. He caught sight of his superior and came forward. "Mr. Brereton's here, sir, and some gentlemen from Norcaster," he said. "They want to see you particularly something about this place, so I brought them "
"I want to see Luke," said the Doctor to a very grand person in a blue coat with brass buttons standing at the door. "Ask at the Superintendent's office," said the man. "Third door on the left down the corridor." "Who is that person you spoke to, Doctor?" I asked as we went along the passage. "He is a policeman." "And what are policemen?" "Policemen? They are to keep people in order.
Every girl wants to seem popular in the eyes of some member of the opposite sex even though that member may be an unpleasant person whom she dislikes. And so, with a feeling of utter meanness in her soul with a real weight of deceit upon her heart she smiled into the Superintendent's anxious face. "I do appreciate the way you feel about me," she said softly, "I do, indeed!
He carried with him, instead of a huge sample case this he left in the ante-room an ingenious little mechanical pencil sharpener. Stepping up to the superintendent's desk, he set the machine down squarely in front of the official and, without a word, picked up a pencil from the desk and sharpened it. "How much by the dozen?" asked the superintendent. "Twenty-five dollars," replied the salesman.
"They were lowered down in the dumb waiter to the cellar and then carried through the lot to Fifty-seventh street. "I'll leave the rest of this job to you, Patsy. Find out all you can and have as many witnesses as you can get together, at the superintendent's office to-morrow afternoon, at three o'clock. We're going to have a special examination into this case."
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