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"A fellow I met in Crumville a few days ago. He appeared to be straight enough." And then Nat told his story from beginning to end. He said that he had hung around the depot waiting for Tom Shocker to come, but that the fellow had failed to show himself. "It's as plain as day," said Phil. "If Nat's story is true, this Shocker went back and robbed Dave."
Princesses don't as a rule come here after breakfast to pass the time of day. It's more absurd than this shocker I've been readin'." "All the same it's a fact. She'll tell you the story herself, and you'll believe her quick enough. But to prepare your mind I'll just give you a sketch of the events of the last few days." Before the sketch was concluded the young man had violently rung the bell.
Holding the pillow in place with one hand Shocker gained possession of the watch and chain and stickpin with the other. Then he took from Dave's pocket a small roll of bank-bills. He tried to appropriate the lad's ring, but could not get it off the finger. Dave, finding himself being robbed, struggled harder than ever. But the bonds held and he was helpless to protect himself.
The Assembly of the League of Nations is not News, until it stumbles on mystery and disaster, becoming material for a shocker. The meeting together of organisations for the betterment of the world is not News, in the sense that their failure is. Deeply Henry, going about his secret and private business, intent and absorbed, pondered this question of News, what it is and what it is not.
"Fargo's is the place to go to," said Shocker, presently. "I know we can trust him." "Of course, I don't want to hurt Porter," said Nat, nervously. "I only want to scare him." "Sure, I understand. We'll scare the wits out of him," returned Tom Shocker. "Now, let me see. I have it we'll catch him on the bridge. His carriage is bound to come that way, to get off Goat Island."
The usual lists of distinguished strangers, wandering English story-tellers in search of material for a new "shilling shocker," artists suing to paint her or "Mademoiselle l'Inconnue," crept from time to time into the genial social column of the newspaper. Stuart spent the evenings in state on a couch at the head of the drawing- room, where he usually remained until the guests departed.
"They are on their way out West, and I suppose they ran up here to see the sights. I I wish I could do something to 'em!" added Nat, bitterly. "Maybe you can," answered Tom Shocker, always open for action. "I'll tell you one thing," he continued, in a low tone. "If they had treated me as they treated you, I'd not let them off so easily."
"Don't you want some one along?" asked Laura, who did not like to see her brother depart in the company of such a looking stranger as Tom Shocker. "No, Laura. Oh, it's all right. I'll be at the International on time," said Dave, and then he hurried over the bridge and down a side street of the city, in company with Tom Shocker.
"It is his one dissipation. He is noted for it. You, as a stranger, could hardly be expected to know of this idiosyncrasy. Mr. Gladstone sought relaxation in the Greek poets, Sir Andrew finds his in Gaboriau. Since I have been a member of Parliament, I have never seen him in the library without a shilling shocker in his hands.
A few paragraphs from Ingersoll, a few pages from Poe, a few stanzas from Whitman but make your own search and your own comparisons; and if, in your final ranking, Brann stands not among the Titans who number less than the fingers on God's hand, it will be because you cannot divorce the sublime beauty of "Life and Death" from the coyotes and the jackals that run rampant through the pages of Brann the shocker of the thin of skin.
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