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but he knew his Creole too well to make such a blunder as that. He did not resume his book immediately, but sat for a while meditatively looking out into the garden. XXIII

She was hungry again, for the Highcamp dinner, though of excellent quality, had lacked abundance. She rummaged in the larder and brought forth a slice of Gruyere and some crackers. She opened a bottle of beer which she found in the icebox.

Then she went across the room to where he sat. She bent over the arm of his chair and called his name. “

She was endeavoring to heat a pot of chocolate on the stove. The room looked cheerless and dingy to

One of the sailors, happening to say to another, "that he believed the world was going to be at an end;" this observation led her into a new train of thoughts: some of

Considering the separation of the soul and body, this night seemed sadly solemn, and the hours long.

In this retreat she read

Young people are mostly fond of scribbling;

The pipe was still between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "Awake,

My whole examination served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote

All well." "Thank you!" said

I could see that

Then the rope tightened mercilessly, while

He had lessoned from

Well, I have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon it the folk that we are in search of are to be found. "I think I could lay my finger on it," said

I bought this estate, which chanced to be in the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, and though my wife died young she left me my dear little

Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence

We have a housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily get her out of the way." "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip,

I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be happy until you had been on the scene of the crime. "It was very nice and complimentary of you,"

We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic." "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a realistic effect," remarked