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"Allowing for some of the ash slipping down the pile and for our having moved a little that was there before Wandle threw the cash-box in, it fixes the time he did so pretty close to Jernyngham's disappearance," he remarked. "Looks bad against the Austrian, doesn't it?" "You have quite as much against Prescott." "Yes," Curtis admitted regretfully; "that's the trouble.
The place, and everything which Lady Hamilton had done to it, delighted him; and he declared that the longest liver should possess it all. Here he amused himself with angling in the Wandle, having been a good fly-fisher in former days, and learning now to practise with his left hand what he could no longer pursue as a solitary diversion.
"It is surprising; but hadn't you better look after Wandle? He seems to be getting up." Wandle was cautiously getting on his feet, and the trooper watched him until he moved a pace or two. "You don't look very broke up," he said. "Do you feel as if you could walk?" "I believe I could ride," Wandle answered sullenly. "Well, I guess you won't.
This was a sign that their owner had recently come home, and Prescott, opening the door without knocking, abruptly entered the kitchen. The lamp was lighted and Wandle, standing near it with his fur-coat still on, looked startled.
Having listened attentively to the statement of Wandle Schoonhoven, giving an occasional grunt, as he shoveled a spoonful of Indian pudding into his mouth, either as a sign that he relished the dish or comprehended the story, he called unto him his constable, and pulling out of his breeches pocket a huge jack-knife, dispatched it after the defendant as a summons, accompanied by his tobacco-box as a warrant."
The man tactfully moved away and Jernyngham turned to Prescott, speaking rather hoarsely. "She's gone that's the end of it!" He dropped into one of the chairs scattered about and a few moments later broke into a bitter laugh. "It would have been more flattering if she had chosen you or Wandle instead of that blasted weedy drummer. Still, there the thing is, and it has to be faced."
The man had his sympathy, but he was troublesome. "I'm afraid I can't spare you more than a minute or two," he said. "I'm expecting a constable I've sent for." "One would have imagined that my business was of the first importance," Jernyngham rejoined. "Have you any news of the fugitives?" "Wandle has been arrested." "Ah! That's satisfactory, though I don't think it will carry us very far.
I have even heard it asserted, that a hare enjoys being hunted. Yet I will allow that fly-fishing, after your vindication, appears amongst the least cruel of field sports. We must, however, confine ourselves to a few colloquial extracts from the practical portion of the volume; as Flies on the Wandle, &c. Orn. Certainly not.
The sage Wouter took them one after the other, and having poised them in his hands, and attentively counted over the number of leaves, fell straightway into a very great doubt, and smoked for half an hour without saying a word; at length, laying his finger beside his nose, and shutting his eyes for a moment, with the air of a man who has just caught a subtle idea by the tail, he slowly took his pipe from his mouth, puffed forth a column of tobacco smoke, and with marvelous gravity and solemnity pronounced that having carefully counted over the leaves and weighed the books, it was found that one was just as thick and as heavy as the other therefore, it was the final opinion of the court that the accounts were equally balanced therefore, Wandle should give Barent a receipt, and Barent should give Wandle a receipt and the constable should pay the costs.
On the morning after the corporal's discovery, Gustave Wandle was leading his team to a drinking pool on the creek that crossed his farm. He was a big, reserved, fair-haired man, with a fleshy face that was redeemed from heaviness by his eyes, which were restless and keen.
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