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"He'd bet he'd never give 'er another year's schoolin'. She'd come home an' get a summer school that's what she'd do. All folks thought about nowadays was clothes!" To Elizabeth Farnshaw every day of that busy month was full of unconscious growth. As soon as Mr. Farnshaw was out of sight, Mrs. Hornby said to Elizabeth: "Now, my child, I am going to take up the seams in that basque."
That's three days since, and yesterday Hornby he comes to Dad and says as how a steamer was in with mail and freight and who was to carry it around? And Dad says as how I was a man now and could hold up the honour of the family, says he, and moreover, says Dad, 'I'll neither eat nor come out till you come to your senses and beg pardon for mistaking a joke for an insult!"
Hornby having given another correcting twist to her bonnet, was about to step down from the box when Sir Hector rose and bestowed upon her an intimidating stare. "You made some reference," said he, "to a society the Society of Paralysed Idiots, I think, whatever that may be. Now what caused you to make that reference?" "It was a mistake; I was thinking of something else."
But they would not listen to me, although I have known him since he was a little child, and ought to be able to judge, if anyone is. Diamonds, too! Now, I ask you, what could Reuben want with diamonds? and they were not even cut." Here Mrs. Hornby drew forth a lace-edged handkerchief and mopped her eyes. "I am sure Dr.
As the case stands, the balance of probabilities may be stated thus: John Hornby undoubtedly had access to the diamonds, and therefore might have stolen them. But if the thumb-mark was made after he closed the safe and before he opened it again, some other person must have had access to them, and was probably the thief.
You see it made the baby sick too; but it ain't any use to say so to her," John replied, but in spite of the firmness of his tone there was a puzzled look on his face and the last word dragged with indecision. "She was very fond of Mrs. Hornby, too, and that may have had something to do with it," Mrs. Hunter observed. "Ye-e-s-s-s!" John replied.
Unfortunately, however, this was not the case, and the diamonds had to be taken to the works and locked up in the safe." "Who placed them in the safe?" asked Thorndyke. "Mr. Hornby himself, to whom Mr. Reuben delivered up the package on his return from the docks." "Yes," said Thorndyke, "and what happened next?"
Hornby, "but Walter tells me that it was not so, and, of course, he would remember better than I should." "But, my dear aunt, I am sure he gave it to you," interposed Juliet. "Don't you remember? It was the night the Colleys came to dinner, and we were so hard pressed to find amusement for them, when Walter came in and produced the 'Thumbograph." "Yes, I remember quite well now," said Mrs.
"It doesn't make any difference what the weather is in this blessed country," he said dismally to Nora, "you have to go out whether there's really anything to do or not." "That's so," laughed Taylor; "still I think you'll admit the Boss always manages to find something to fill up the time." "That he does," said Hornby with another hollow groan.
Jervis wish to know about it?" Seeing that she was terrified lest some new and dreadful surprise should be sprung upon her, I hastened to reassure her. "My colleague, Dr. Thorndyke, is anxious to examine it. He is directing your nephew's defence, you know." "Yes, yes," said Mrs. Hornby. "Juliet told me about him. She says he is a dear. Do you agree with her?"
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