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Updated: June 12, 2025
'You are a friend of Archie Weir's? said one to Frank Innes; and Innes replied, with his usual flippancy and more than his usual insight: 'I know Weir, but I never met Archie. No one had met Archie, a malady most incident to only sons.
And so slid off to safer topics, and left on the mind of the child an obscure but ineradicable sense of something wrong. Mrs. Weir's philosophy of life was summed in one expression tenderness. In her view of the universe, which was all lighted up with a glow out of the doors of hell, good people must walk there in a kind of ecstasy of tenderness.
I prayed every minute of my ride that Juanita would find and tell you." "I couldn't come half as fast as I wished." His smile assured and cheered her. Then as his glance fell on her wrists, still red and creased from being bound, he exclaimed, "What's this? Let me see." And he caught and lifted her hands to look. "He had you tied?" Weir's gaze moved away to Sorenson. "Yes. Hands and feet."
And so slid off to safer topics, and left on the mind of the child an obscure but ineradicable sense of something wrong. Mrs. Weir's philosophy of life was summed in one expression tenderness. In her view of the universe, which was all lighted up with a glow out of the doors of hell, good people must walk there in a kind of ecstasy of tenderness.
"It will not please whoever hired the dead man. He was hired for the job, of course." "Unquestionably, señor," was the reply. At the inquest next morning no outward sign indicated what Weir's enemies might be at. Indeed, none of them was present.
Martinez had no need to look up Weir's number; and it was in a strain of terror and excitement that he waited for the connection. "See Janet Hosmer at once," he shot at the engineer, followed by the rest of the warning already quoted which had so electrifying an effect upon Steele Weir. But the words had broken off abruptly.
Whenever he was in Miss Weir's presence, however, he manifested none of the disagreeable characteristics that Nelly Morrison had ascribed to him. The size of the check which Hazel received in her weekly envelope was increased far beyond her expectations. Nelly Morrison had drawn twenty dollars a week.
I learned afterwards that they had hung, till some thirty years before, in a long gallery connecting the main part of the house with that portion to which the turret referred to so often in Old Weir's story was attached. One particularly pleased me.
If he had been in the vault, he could safely have lighted a candle without their perceiving its beams; and though the safe was modern it probably had no time lock. Sorenson could unlock it with a few twirls of the combination, stuff his pockets with currency and negotiable paper to the amount of thousands and then slip away. Fortunately the moonlight was to Weir's advantage.
So it was that the plan craftily put in operation by Weir's enemies, to gather and inflame the people, under cover of whose pressure and excitement when the engineer was arrested he might be slain by a pretended rescue or popular demonstration, whichever should serve best, produced the expected result.
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