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He even made a point of arriving that afternoon at the apartment house in the company's repair wagon, the vehicle having been procured through Fleck's assistance. "There's a dangerous short circuit somewhere in the house," he announced to the superintendent's wife. "My husband isn't here," she answered unsuspectingly. "Do you know where the switch-boards are?" "We can find them," said Carter.
"Ya!" said the alderman unsuspectingly, "gifing such a forgetfulness on such easy things as dongolas." "Sure! You tell Dugan what dongolas is, Grevemeyer," said Toole quickly. Grevemeyer looked at his glass thoughtfully. His mind worked slowly always, but he saw that it would not do for him to have knock-out drops so soon after Toole. "Ach!" he exclaimed angrily.
And off went the sergeant and a dozen men, as pleased as Punch. Some time elapsed before they reached the hillock, and still the three Boers moved slowly and unsuspectingly across our view. After an anxious pause the rifles cracked out, one after another, like a rip-rap, and at the same time the Boers seemed to fly instead of to crawl.
While this was enacting, Butler and the extra detective had stepped out of sight, to one side of the front door of the house, while Alderson, taking the lead, rang the bell. A negro servant appeared. "Is Mrs. Davis in?" he asked, genially, using the name of the woman in control. "I'd like to see her." "Just come in," said the maid, unsuspectingly, and indicated a reception-room on the right.
Paul inwardly determined to mention it in his first letter to Aunt Lucy. He could imagine her astonishment. While he was busy with these thoughts, his companion had finished his oysters. "Most through?" he inquired nonchalantly. "I've got to step out a minute; wait till I come back." Paul unsuspectingly assented. He heard his companion say a word to the barkeeper, and then go out.
He had unsuspectingly opened the dining-room door, and had been greeted by a burst of laughter, and had had to retire precipitately before the impertinent mirth of the women who were assembled there.
I had a very secure hiding-place in the hollow of an old oak, where I have often been secreted while Sir E.C. and his keepers, without casting a glance in my direction, passed unsuspectingly by, vowing all sorts of vengeance against trespassers.
"You must understand that, in the space of three or four months that appears to separate the dates at which the two films were made, his passion has made progress; and to him it is not the princess who is coming but Rose Andree." The man crouched low. The victim approached, gaily and unsuspectingly.
Along this trench seeds and other food were scattered, which the birds soon discovered, and of course began to eat, unsuspectingly following the tempting bait through the gallery till they emerged from its farther end in the centre of the trap, where they contentedly fed till the food was all gone.
One by one, the gaoler himself, unsuspectingly, brought the different ingredients: oil was imported in salads, wick the prisoner himself made from threads pulled from the quilt, and in time the lamp was complete.
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