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Briscoe's department. "So I suppose you'd better turn it over to him," says he. "Just as you say," says I. "The old gent is due at two-fifteen, and I'll shunt him onto Briscoe." Which I did. And at two-thirty-five Briscoe breezes in with his report. "Nothing to it," says he.
He remained silent for a moment, and then raising his head, said: "As nearly an hour and three quarters as possible." This was pretty good evidence of the practically simultaneous experience of my friends in Melbourne at twelve-thirty A.M., with my own at two-fifteen A.M. in the neighbourhood of Dunedin.
I will ring him up at his house." He took up the telephone and a few minutes later spoke rapidly in Spanish to the chief detective of Spain. Presently after a rapid conversation he put down the receiver, and said: "Señor Rivero will meet you at the Delicias Station at two o'clock to-morrow morning. The express for Barcelona leaves at two-fifteen.
He went directly to the log-landing, where in a listless and half-hearted manner the loading crew were piling logs on Pennington's logging-trucks. Bryce looked at his watch. It was two o'clock; at two-fifteen Pennington's locomotive would appear, to back in and couple to the long line of trucks. And the train was only half loaded. "Where's McTavish?" Bryce demanded of the donkey-driver.
He put out the light and crossed to a settle. Here he lay at full length courting sleep. When he awoke, he thought, refreshed and alert, he would show his youth unmistakably. But sleep would not return. He tried every position, every trick for propitiating Morpheus. All in vain. At length he rose again and turned on the light. It was two-fifteen.
And so it came about, through events of surprisingly simple shaping, that her first week in the metropolis found Lilly integral to it. She liked the consciousness that unless she appeared at the Union Family Theater at two-fifteen and at eight-fifteen she was breaking into the continuity of a sequence of events in which she had her place.
As a matter of fact, I needed somebody to look after my things, and Spike can do it as well as anybody else." "I see. Not bad my spotting him, was it? Well, I must be off. Good-bye. Two-fifteen at Paddington. Meet you there. Take a ticket for Dreever if you're there before me." "Eight. Good-bye." Jimmy returned to the dining-room.
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