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Updated: June 27, 2025
Grimes paid many playful and chivalrous compliments, but met with very slight encouragement in return.
Colonel McIntyre had been in his office within the hour the question was answered, and Kent's eyes brightened, then clouded Barbara had been there as well, and Grimes had stated that before he received a knock-out blow in the McIntyre library he heard the swish of skirts! Kent laid his hand on the envelope.
For a moment no one moved, then, with a strange hoarse cry, Adam had flung himself down upon his knees, and caught up a great handful of the gold; then while Miss Priscilla sobbed with her arms about Small Porges, and Anthea stared down at the treasure, wide-eyed, and with her hands pressed down upon her heart, Adam gave a sudden, great laugh, and springing up, came running out through the window, never spying Bellew in his haste, and shouting as he ran: "Grimes!" he roared, "Oh!
On the day of the fight notes were taken just before Grimes fired his first gun, just after the third reply from the enemy when we were massed in the road about seventy paces from Grimes' guns, and when I was beginning to get scared and to think I would be killed at the halt just before you advanced, and under the shelter of the hills in the evening.
Grimes, who, by reason of the dint in his skull, had been left behind, was walking about the sea-beach, talking mysteriously, and shaking his fist at an imaginary foe. On going up to him, they discovered that the blow had affected his brain, for he was delirious. Frere endeavoured to soothe him, without effect; and at last, by Bates's advice, the poor fellow was rolled in the sea.
Grimes bristled up like certain animals, which are good at running and skulking, but which, when fairly trapped, fight desperately. "Telling it to a thousand is not half as bad as doing it, Mrs. Comegys," she said, angrily. "You needn't try to screen yourself from the consequences of your wrong doings, by raising a hue and cry against me. Go to the fact, madam!
On hearing this the captain again summoned all hands aft, and ordered Andrews to bring his sugar cask. There in the head was found a piece of iron which exactly fitted the notch in the axe which the carpenter produced. "Now, lads, say who stole Andrews's sugar and concealed it in Pulley's chest?" asked the skipper. "Grimes! Grimes!
The detective withdrew his head from the opening at the end of the casket, and regarded the furniture vexedly. "Not a thing," he acknowledged. "Except I am convinced that it required dexterity to slip Grimes inside the casket. The butler is small and slight, but he must have been unconscious from that tap on the forehead and, therefore, a dead weight.
The men of his own nation men from the land of the open English Bible and temperance cup and song are cheering him on to mad disgrace. And now another call for the appointed sport is drowned by the flat-boatmen singing the ancient tune of Mear. You can hear the words "Old Grimes is dead, that good old soul"
Pay for the article yourself, Mr Vavasor, and then it's your own. That's what I always say." Mr Grimes went to work strenuously, almost fiercely, in the opposite interest, telling all that he knew, and perhaps more than he knew, of Vavasor's circumstances.
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