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Then she sped back to safety at the wire's end, threw down her parasol, caught the handkerchief thrown to her by the first performer, and daintily touched her face with it, breathing deeply the while and bowing. He thought Sarah was a strange child "One minute one thing and the next minute something else." Work on the piece dragged slowly to an end.
"Dad says he prescribes a little stimulant!" said Tishy, gaily, "the wire's cut " She took the cork out of the bottle with a strong, capable hand, and filled two glasses. "Drink that at once now! And I'll drink one drop myself just for luck! Here now! Here's to the next time, and you at the top of the poll!"
Those fools down at the office would have it that Beresford wasn't here any longer hadn't been here since Wednesday. Is that so?" Tuppence nodded. "You don't know where he is?" she asked faintly. "I? How should I know? I haven't had one darned word from him, though I wired him yesterday morning." "I expect your wire's at the office unopened." "But where is he?" "I don't know. I hoped you might."
Now a word to all those gallant chaps who love a hunting day: In bad times you know that farming is a trade that doesn't pay, Barbed wire's the cheapest kind of fence; the farmer can't afford Tempting post-and-rails and timber for he's getting rather bored. Therefore, if we want to ride with our old devilry and dash, We must put our hands in pockets deep and shovel out the cash.
He looked excited; he looked more troubled than Pearson had seen him look before. "The wire's from Sir Ormsby Galloway, Pearson," he said. "It's about Mr. Strangeways. He's done what I used to be always watching out against: he's disappeared." "Disappeared, sir!" cried Pearson, and almost dropped the Gladstone bag. "I beg pardon, sir. I know there's no time to lose."
I never have had anything to do with the private affairs of any employee of mine." "She makes her private affairs have something to do with you though," said Allerdyke, tapping the telegram significantly. "But, in my opinion, that wire's nothing but an excuse. What're you going to do?" "Oh, I don't know!" exclaimed Fullaway. "I'm about sick of the whole thing." Allerdyke pulled out his watch.
I didn't know what he meant when he told me he'd come back for the rooster, for I'd forgotten about the bird myself. "Nothing would do but he must bring Peter home, and, knowing what a bad storm it was, I came back with him. I'd have telephoned, but my wire's out of order, so I couldn't reach you, and I didn't want to stop to go anywhere else. So I brought him over in my auto."
Suppose some one cuts the wire, a good clean cut; the two ends are apart: not a mile; not a yard; but distinctly apart. Could I telegraph on that wire? Of course not. Yet I might sit in my room and tick away by the hour wholly absorbed, and use most beautiful persuasive language what is the good? The wire's cut. All my fine pleading goes into the ground, or the air.
Have they a telegraph office?" "Yep; I'm going down to send a wire. Office isn't open long. Agent quits as soon as the east-bound freight comes through." "I suppose the wire's from Miss Stephen?" The page nodded and Walters gave him twenty-five cents. "Well, if you can wait a little, I'll have a message to send; it will save you a journey." The boy hesitated; but the money banished his doubts.
It struck Madeline that Florence stayed rather long indoors. Presently she came out with sober face and rather tight lips. "I couldn't get anybody on the 'phone. No answer. I tried a dozen times." "Why, Florence!" Madeline was more concerned by the girl's looks than by the information she imparted. "The wire's been cut," said Florence.
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