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He had arranged for the ceremony to be performed at two-thirty; and the witnesses, a glum verger and a woman engaged in cleaning the church, sat in the pews of the empty building, waiting to earn the guinea which they had been promised. The conversation was about nothing in particular one of those empty, purposeless exchanges of banal thought and speech characteristic of such an occasion.
'There's been a naccydent, says the Missus: 'but thank the Lord the vittles is cold! 'Maybe he've forgot the day, says the Vicar; 'but any way, we'll give en another ha'f-hour's grace an' then set-to, says he, takin' pity on the noises old Truslove was makin' inside his weskit. . . . So said, so done. At two-thirty service bein' fixed for ha'f-after-three they all fell to work.
By this time all of our supplies had been loaded and stored, and from the crow's-nest a stretch of open water could be seen as far as Cape Rawson. From there to Cape Union the ice was packed solid. It was two-thirty P. M., July 17, 1909, that the Roosevelt pointed her bow southward and we left our winter quarters and Cape Sheridan.
Bailey away from the club-house because you were afraid there would be blows?" "The situation was unpleasant," Halsey said evasively. "At that time had you any suspicion that the Traders' Bank had been wrecked?" "No." "What occurred next?" "Mr. Bailey and I talked in the billiard-room until two-thirty." "And Mr. Arnold Armstrong came there, while you were talking?" "Yes.
"I'm awfully worried." "Worried?" "Yes, about Carfax. No one knows what's happened to him. He may have gone up to town, of course, but if he did he went without an exeat. Thompson saw him go out about two-thirty yesterday afternoon -was going to Grantchester, because he yelled it back to Cards, who asked him where he was off to not been heard or seen since."
"Everybody in Baltimore knows of them," declared Jim with full civic pride. "I shall take the two-thirty train," said Martin. "Maybe we shall travel together." "That's the one I take," said Jim. "Match you to see who engages berths for both of us." "I'll gladly engage one for you without matching," declared Martin, a proffer which Jim immediately accepted.
Gone, too, was Polish Anna, with her damp calico and her ubiquitous pail and dripping rag and her gutturals. In her place was a trim Swede who wore white kid shoes in the afternoon and gray dresses and cob-web aprons. The sight of the neat Swede sitting in her room at two-thirty in the afternoon, tatting, never failed to fill Ma Mandle with a dumb fury. Anna had been an all-day scrubber. But Lil.
"If I allow myself a little handicap in the matter of details," she said, "I know I can put everything else through as well as Gaspard;" whereupon she enveloped herself in a huge linen apron, tucked her hair into one of the chef's white caps, and attacked the problem of preparing luncheon for from sixty-five to two hundred people, who were scheduled to appear at uncertain intervals between the hours of twelve and two-thirty.
As you enter his room you see, lying half-dressed on the bed, a pale, wan, emaciated creature, who is staring fixedly at the ceiling. It is the happy bridegroom. His lips open. He speaks feebly. "What time is it?" he says. You reply, "Two-thirty, old man. Time to start getting dressed." "Oh, my God!" says the groom. Ten minutes pass. "What time is it?" says the groom. "Twenty of three," you reply.
"That was at what time?" "About two-thirty, sir." "Then you were the last person to see him before ..." "Why, no ... that is, unless ..." The butler hesitated, casting a quick glance round his audience. "What do you mean?" rapped out the Inspector, looking up from his notebook. "Did anybody else see Mr. Parrish in spite of his orders?" Bude was silent. He was looking at Greve.
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