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Let us now inquire into the matter; we are here for that, and for nothing else." "Are these gentlemen of that opinion?" asked Hafner in a conciliatory voice, turning first to Dorsenne, then to Ardea: "I do not adhere to my method," he continued, again folding his paper. He slipped it into his vest-pocket and continued: "Let us establish the facts, as you say.
She opened the door of the library, and closing it quickly behind them, turned to him expectantly. "Nothing to be alarmed at," he said, answering her mute inquiry. He seated himself at the table, and drew from his vest-pocket pencil and blank. Without another glance at the girl, he wrote rapidly for some minutes; then quickly moving back his chair, he arose and handed her the two slips of paper.
To break the force of what appeared to be an open, if involuntary, self-betrayal, another guest stepped forward; but no sooner had he raised his hand to his vest-pocket than Clifford moved, and in a high, strident voice totally unlike his usual tones remarked: "This is all all very interesting and commendable, no doubt.
Shortly after this article appeared, Lord Lansdowne intimated to the young writer that he would like the honor of introducing him into public life, and if agreeable he could arrange for him to stand for Parliament in the vacant seat of Calne. Calne was one of those vest-pocket boroughs, owned by a single man, of which England has so many.
"Shall I send for a police officer, Mr. Hatch, or will you allow yourself to be searched quietly?" said the merchant. Alarmed at the threat implied in these words, the clerk put his hand into his vest-pocket, and drew out a two-dollar bill on the Merchants' Bank. "Is this your note?" asked the shopkeeper, showing it to the young man. "It is." "I must have made a mistake," faltered the clerk.
Payday comes especially happy this time. It will put good feeling into all, and make the service vastly more expeditious." She counted out four ten-dollar notes from a roll in her hand and signified him to approach. He took the money, coolly counted it, and put it in his vest-pocket. "Thank you, Miss." I do not say that she looked disappointed, but I assert that she was slightly disconcerted.
He came home, radiant with delight. "He says he'll take it!" he proclaimed. "Only I've got to do a new ending for the fourth installment he wants something more exciting. So I'm going to have the countess caught in a burning tower!" And he wrote that, and went yet again, and came home with a hundred dollars buttoned tightly in his inside vest-pocket.
But the bride is agitated, and the bridegroom betrays a feverish nervousness. As they stand in the vestibule, John Jenkins fumbles earnestly in his vest-pocket. Can it be the ring he is anxious about? No. He draws a small brown substance from his pocket, and biting off a piece, hastily replaces the fragment and gazes furtively around. Surely no one saw him?
'The boss likes these jimcracks; he's got a lot o' thim up where he lives. I seen him pay twinty dollars to a Jew-dago for one o' THIM. And he pointed to my row of miniatures. "By this time I was face to face with the awful truth. There was nothing in the vest-pocket, nor in the cup, and there was nothing in the drawer.
"Footman?" asked the hussar, in his broken Hungarian dialect. "Yes, footman!" said the valet de chambre, in broken German. The hussar smilingly patted his shoulder, and, with his other hand, pulled the watch from his vest-pocket, kindly saying to him, "Footman, stay here. No harm will befall him!"
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