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"The letter was, in all probability, written by a German!" There was a moment's silence. Desmond was thinking despairingly of the seeming hopelessness of untangling this intricate webwork of tangled threads. "And this murder, sir," he began. The Chief shrugged his shoulders. "The motive, Okewood, I am searching for the motive.
Marne and now, as she felt more and more assured of Henrietta's ability and success, she was rapidly growing so much better and stronger that she would soon be able to take care of their housekeeping and leave Bella free to marry as soon as her fiancé could offer her a home. But Henrietta was so anxious about other things that these untangling perplexities gave her small comfort.
This nearness was almost more than he could bear. And to have his hands buried in that fragrant mass of the hair he loved, suddenly proved his undoing. He stopped his ineffectual work of untangling; but Arethusa did not know that he had until she felt herself held close to a wildly beating heart and heard him whispering, hoarsely, "Arethusa, I ... I just can't bear it ... any longer!"
He was chiefly concerned in using the key he had discovered as an aid to the construction of the first geological map of England ever attempted, and he left to others the untangling of any snarls of thought that might seem to arise from his discovery of the succession of varying forms of life on the globe.
She felt feverous and ill, and having brewed for herself a huge jorum of tansy tea, sat down over this inspiring beverage, and tried to pull her scattered wits together and think out some way of untangling the skein of difficulty with which she had to deal.
Jemima was lifted out, the tow-line straightened, and another start was made; but after trotting along steadily for a time she gave a second sudden leap, and was between the two dogs just in front of the wheelers. Once more things were badly mixed, and the untangling process had to be repeated.
He said he was too close on them to shoot, so stepping back, he fired both barrels of his gun at the bunch. An untangling at once commenced, and he said, "consarned if he ever saw so many snakes before." Upon going to the place where he had shot, he found 150 snakes dead, and as many more wounded.
When it was clear that the members of the family were in bed, the Grand Army man hitched his shoulders and, untangling his long legs, caught his heels on the rounds of his chair. "S'pose there'll be a will, Phelps?" he queried in his weak falsetto. The banker laughed disagreeably, and began trimming his nails with a pearl-handled pocket-knife.
"Same goes for me," said several of them. "Don't forget, now. Good-by, Tom. 'By, Knight. Here, let's shake that paw again. Drop me a line, eh?" "'By, boys," said Tom, untangling, himself from the group. He looked back and waved. Two days later in Albany Tom presented himself at the Mayor's office. "I've come on a peculiar errand," he explained.
Geraldine, conscious of something she could not understand, glanced again at her sulky brother. "What's amiss, Scott?" she asked. "Has anything gone wrong anywhere?" Scott, pretending to be very busy untangling Grandcourt's cast from the branches of a lusty young birch, said, "No, of course not," and the girl, wondering, turned to Kathleen, who sustained her questioning eyes without a tremor.
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