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Ajax Anaconda Airline asked Richard Attorney Bayard began beneath Bess brow Count Storri Credit Magellan cried Storri Croesus Czar Daily Tory daugh daughter dinner dollars door Doro Dorothy Dorothy's drain eyes face favor fear Fopling French shares gave gentleman give gold Governor Obstinate Gwynn hand Hanway-Harley Hanway's Harley house Harley's Hawke heart honor hour hundred Inspector Val John Harley kissed knew latter London Bill looked Marklin marriage Matzai millions Miss Harley morning mother mouth never night nobleman Northern Consolidated observed Richard old gray buccaneer once osprey pool Patrick Henry Hanway politics President railway replied Reve's Rich Russian San Reve Sands Senator Coot Senator Gruff Senator Hanway Speakership Steamboat stood Storms street sure talk tell thing thought thousand tion told took Treasury tunnel Uncle Pat Warmdollar wedding White House woman word Zulu Queen
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Page 476 - So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.
Page 415 - there's a bend at that point." " What's next? " asked Mr. Duff; " do we follow him in and collar him? or do we just wait here? " " Collar him ! " repeated Inspector Val disgustedly. " I'd like to catch you collaring him ! Is this a time to talk of collaring, and we no further than the threshold of the job? Let him alone; he's only laying out the work to-night.
Page 413 - ... bolted to the masonry — the floor, steel slabs two feet in width, laid side by side but not bolted, and bedded upon masonry that rested on the ground! Surely, nothing could be more solid or more secure! The door and the complicated machinery that locked it were wonders, marvels ! Nowhere had he, Storri...
Page 237 - We certify . . . that Santum was out on the platform when another Indian of almost as great a stature came out, and the two passed and re-passed each other as they walked up and down. At the same time a conversation was being carried on between George Dix, Mayflower, old Mr. Morse, and Mrs. Eaton inside the cabinet. We recognized the familiar voice of each.
Page 413 - Tha gold, too, one hundred and ninety-three millions in all, packed five thousand dollars to a sack in little canvas sacks like bags of birdshot, and each sack weighing twenty pounds — Storri saw it all! " And yet," quoth Storri, giving the polite Assistant Secretary a kind of leer, " do not that door and lock remind you of the chains and locks upon your leathern letterbags? — a leathern bag which the most ignorant of...