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It said: "Two diamonds and two emeralds, unset, apparently part of Withers jewelry, pawned here about two-thirty this afternoon by medium-sized man; a little slim; black moustache; high, straight nose; bushy eyebrows; very thin lips; gray eyes; age between thirty and forty; weight 140 pounds. Two pawnshops used. No trace of him yet."
Lord Colambre had detected numerous false charges, and sundry impositions: the land, which had been purposely let to run wild, so far from yielding any rent, was made a source of constant expense, as remaining still unset: this was a large tract, for which St. Dennis had at length offered a small rent.
"With friends!" answered the Marchioness. "But do not essay to speak. Drink this. You must husband your strength. Meantime, let us drive you to your home." Winnifred was lifted tenderly by the menservants into the aristocratic equipage. The brake was unset, the lever reversed, and the carriage thrown again into motion.
To set it was a matter of the utmost simplicity, while to spring it one had barely to go at the contents of the case and touch the trigger lightly. The springs were left unset, as Garrison tossed in the trifles he should need. Then he changed his clothes, turned off the gas, and was presently out once more in the open of the street, walking to the Grand Central Station, near at hand.
You know what the rules say about that? Death without trial." "No, I didn't, capt'n; I didn't." "Search him, Mr. Todd." The search brought to light a tobacco-pouch in which were about fifty unset diamonds and a few well-jeweled solid-gold ornaments, which the captain pocketed. "Not much of a haul, considering what you left behind," he said calmly.
These had rotted; they came apart easily in O'Reilly's fingers, displaying a miscellaneous assortment of unset gems some of them at first sight looked like drops of blood, others like drops of purest water. They were the rubies and the diamonds which had brought Isabel to her death. O'Reilly waited to see no more. Candle in hand, he crept out into the well to apprise Rosa of the truth.
And this was before breakfast, when each man was on honor pledged to take only a pint of hot water -nothing more -before reporting. On the other mornings, football aspirants were pledged to run without the coach. Yet, with all this, studies had to be kept up to a high average, for no man on the "unset" list could hope to be permitted to play football. Hard work? Yes. But discipline, above all.
He had thousands in unset gems which he neither sold, wore, nor gave away.
"Guests must be served first" was the only argument; pointing out that there were a dozen tables yet unset made no difference. Our chauffeur had gone, so we left our address for him, ordered a taxi, and drove to the Burlington Hotel two miles away.
But then, old Luddy was a character apparently always in the most poverty-stricken condition, apparently hardly more than keeping body and soul together, trusting no one, and obsessed by the dread that by depositing in a bank some one would discover that he had money, and attempt to force it from him, he had put his savings, year after year, for twenty years, twenty-five years, perhaps, into unset stone diamonds.
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