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Updated: June 18, 2025
"Look, Walter," he remarked at length, taking a fine tipped pencil and pointing at the distinguishing marks as he talked, "You will notice that all the 'T's' in this note are battered and faint as well as just a trifle out of alignment. Now I will place the paper from the bomb under the lens and you will also see that the 'T's' in the scrap of formula have exactly the same appearance.
'It is the secret society which has planned the great rising which is to drive you out of Germany, just as you have been driven out of Russia. 'And these T's stand for it? 'They are the signal. I should have told you all this in the village, but I dared not be seen speaking with you. I galloped through the woods to cut you off, and concealed both my horse and myself.
"'Jacob kin stick to the farm an' the mill; if he likes, says he, 'an' Tom kin go to sea, an' William kin be a minister, 't's all he's good fer, I reckon; but I'm goin' ter be a gentleman! says Simon. He said it in father's hearin' one day, an' father lay back in his cheer an' laughed; he was allays laughin', father was.
"I 'll tell ye what's the mahtterr," she said, in a frightened voice. "Ahbner 's go'n' to car' his dog, 'n' he'll set him on ye'z sure 'z y' 'r' alive. 'T's the same cretur that haaf eat up Eben Squires's little Jo, a year come nex' Faast day."
Kame's touch was light and her imagination sympathetic; she was the most adaptable of the feminine portion of her nation, and since the demise of her husband she had lived, abroad and at home, among men and women of a world that does not dot its i's or cross its t's. Nevertheless, the letter filled Honora with a deep apprehension and a deeper resentment.
'But this one's out of England: and it's a prince I suppose they'll call him: and princes don't count in the population for more than finishing touches, like the crossing of t's and dotting of i's, though true they're the costliest, like some flowers and feathers, and they add to the lump on Barney's back.
And then they carefully examined Charley's work, crossed his t's, dotted his i's, saw that his spelling was right, and went to bed. Again, punctually at ten o'clock, Charley presented himself at the Internal Navigation; and again saw the two seedy old messengers warming themselves at the lobby fire.
"But the reason of your letter gettin' earlier this morning was that Seen'yer Bruno said he was goin' past the Hall, sir, and would just leave the letters at the Lodge. It is a bit out of the carrier's way, and that man do have a long tramp every day, sir." "Ah, that accounts for it," murmured the journalist, without looking up. He was occupied in crossing his t's and dotting his i's.
"What did he do to you?" inquired the boys, as they followed him down the road. "Why he ; but 't's no use to be rakin' it up agin. You know he always passes hisself off as one o' the conscrip'-guards, that's his dodge. Like as not, that's what he's gwine try and put off on y' all now; but don't you let him fool you." "We're not going to," said the boys.
It is, indeed, the fault of our play-mounters that they are too precise about dotting "i's" and crossing "t's," and like the pet photographers of amateurs they show too much detail.
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