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Updated: May 15, 2025
I was waiting for something, I had not the least idea what, or in what form it would arrive. I heard the quarters chime one after the other until one o'clock. Then at last I heard the sound of a key in the outer door of the suite. I had already poured half the syphon of soda and a fair quantity of the whiskey out of the window.
I suppose that's Annie with the whisky." As he turned round the door opened, and he beheld a very strange sight, one which, to a man who had had a less stern mental training than he had had, would have been nothing less than terrifying. His daughter came in with a little silver tray on which there was a small decanter of whisky, a glass, and a syphon of soda-water.
It gives you the cold shivers down your back when you daren't look round to see if you're being followed." Sir Henry groped in the cupboard of his desk, and produced a bottle of whisky and a syphon of soda water. His visitor nodded approvingly. "I've touched nothing until I've reached what I consider sanctuary," he observed. "My nerves have gone rotten for the first time in my life.
And Lady Franks felt she was quite getting on with her work of reform, and the restoring of woman to her natural throne. Best not go too fast, either. "Say when," shouted the Colonel, who was manipulating the syphon. "When," said Aaron. The men stood up to their drinks. "Will you be leaving in the morning, Mr. Sisson?" asked Lady Franks. "May I stay till Monday morning?" said Aaron.
Manderson had put out the decanter of whisky and a syphon and glass, sir, from the cupboard where he kept them Trent held up his hand. 'While we are on that point, Martin, I want to ask you plainly, did Mr. Manderson drink very much? You understand this is not impertinent curiosity on my part. I want you to tell me, because it may possibly help in the clearing up of this case.
A long wicker chair was set in one angle, facing them, in such a position that the movement of the sun would not affect the delightful shade in which the chair stood. A small table stood beside it, with the Times newspaper tumbled on to it, a box of cigars, a spirit-bottle of iridescent glass, a syphon, and a tall tumbler in which a little ice lay crumbled at the bottom.
Andrew went into the salle a manger and returned with brandy, syphon and glasses. Helping Bakkus he asked: "And now, what are you going to do?" "Nothing, my friend, absolutely nothing. I wallow in the ill-gotten matrimonial gains of Theophilus and Ronald. I wallow modestly, it is true. The richer strata of mire I leave to hogs with whom I'm out of sympathy.
The whiskey and soda set out upon the table attracted my attention. I went over to it, struck by a sudden thought! First I poured out a little of the whiskey. It smelt harmless enough. I tried it upon my tongue. There was no distinctive flavor. Then I looked at the soda-water syphon. The top was screwed up tightly enough, and it easily came undone with the application of a little force.
And there they were on the top of a church-tower in the dusky twilight, with blue stars coming out by ones and twos and tens and twenties over their heads miles away from home, with three-and-three-halfpence in their pockets, and a doubtful act about the necessities of life to be accounted for if anyone found them with the soda-water syphon. They looked at each other.
I shall feel all the better for a thorough wash, and don't be long, my good woman, for I have never been so hungry in my life as I am now." Fenwick returned to the sitting-room a few minutes later to find a decent meal spread out for him. There was cheese and butter and some cold meat under a metal cover. A bottle of brandy stood by the side of Fenwick's plate, with a syphon of soda-water.
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