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I stopped at this albergo for a considerable period, that a sufficient alibi might be established and the moment of my arrival there prove uncertain, should any future question ever arise concerning it. Then the crash came. I returned home suspecting nothing to fall like Lucifer, to find all lost, to hold my dead wife in my arms and know that, without her, life was ended for me.
Whitney's illness as an explanation of her son's delay in returning to the camp of the rustlers. Exasperated, and suspecting a pretense, Inman consented to a brief postponement of the attack. The next startling occurrence was the capture of Monteith Sterry while trying to steal through the lines.
Just south of the Smoky Hill River, a little before we got to the post, a courier heading for Fort Dodge passed us at a rapid gait. Suspecting that he had despatches for me, I directed my outrider to overtake him and find out.
He flung half a crown on the table, and the superintendent, suspecting nothing, and willing to oblige a man who had always been friendly and genial towards himself, went out of the room, with no further precautions than the turning of the key in the lock when he had once got outside the door.
Although our heroine was not exactly pleased with the manner and countenance of the man, yet the charm of the name of Woodburn, to whom he had so artfully referred, restored her confidence, and she at once and thankfully accepted of his proffered guidance, little suspecting that she had yielded herself to the most subtle of her foes the deceitful and treacherous David Redding!
I should like to know how any one of us would look, or what the devil we should have to say for ourselves, in any Christian witness-box. For me, you know there's one thing certain that, practically speaking, all our subjects have been murdered. 'Macfarlane! cried Fettes. 'Come now! sneered the other. 'As if you hadn't suspected it yourself! 'Suspecting is one thing 'And proof another.
Just as French and his wife drew within sight of the white headstones in the churchyard the horses reared back on their haunches and snorted in terror. French was alarmed, and suspecting highwaymen had been scented by the horses, he reached for a shotgun which lay in the bottom of the wagon for just such an emergency. But before his hand touched it he was startled by a scream from his wife.
Some time afterwards, I found that he and D'Alembert had, to a certain degree, I will not say supplanted, but succeeded me in the good graces of Madam de Luxembourg, and that I Had lost in them all they had gained. However, I am far from suspecting the Abbe Morrellet of having contributed to my disgrace; I have too much esteem for him to harbor any such suspicion.
The well-trained animal understood the signal, and, rearing high in the air, was fast nearing the bank, when the young man, suspecting her design, shrieked out: "Stop, lady, stop! It's madness to attempt it." "Follow me if you can," was Maggie's defiant answer, and the next moment she hung in mid-air over the dark abyss.
But she could not help suspecting that he was off on some jaunt with Bridget, and no doubt she felt a little bitter about it. "Shall I?" he answered, with a laugh. "Don't take too much for granted. I may get a snack at the club. Anyhow, you had better not wait." She understood that he did not intend to return and wondered how she should dispose of her silver card-case.
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