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"Even should it be only a wildgoose chase," said Alcide Jolivet to himself, "it may be worth powder and shot." The two correspondents therefore began by cautiously sounding each other. "Really, my dear sir, this little fete is charming!" said Alcide Jolivet pleasantly, thinking himself obliged to begin the conversation with this eminently French phrase.
But he heard nothing. The silence of the forest was unbroken save for the noise he made himself. It became plain at last that he was alone. Robin and Wildgoose had either lost his track, or had not followed him. And a sudden doubt surged into Tom's brain as to whether or not Robin had betrayed him to the footpads.
Nancy gave him a scornful glance. "As if you didn't know better'n me!" she derided. "Eh?" "Oh, you needn't be so innercent," she retorted with mock indignation; " you what led me wildgoose chasin' in the first place!" "What do ye mean?" Nancy glanced through the open barn door toward the house, and came a step nearer to the old man. "Listen!
"From my brother Richard," he said. "Dr. Caldegard knows this Melchard, I believe." When Caldegard had told them all he knew of the man, the Superintendent looked at the Commissioner, "I think, sir," he said, "we'd better inquire about Mr. Alban Melchard." "Rather a wildgoose chase," grumbled the Home Secretary. "I shouldn't wonder, sir," replied Finucane, "if Mr.
That Poor Peter Peebles had been put on this wildgoose chase by some of his juvenile advisers in the Parliament House, he himself had intimated; but he spoke with much confidence, and the Justice, who seemed to have some secret apprehension of being put to trouble in the matter, and, as sometimes occurs on the English frontier, a jealousy lest the superior acuteness of their northern neighbours might overreach their own simplicity, turned to his clerk with a perplexed countenance.
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