Miss Lizzie
“SLOCUM LEFT for his office. Father and Harry Boyle left for the Fairview, to get an early dinner, Father promising he would return to say good night before he went to sleep. He had fallen in with Miss Lizzie’s suggestion that he use the Pinkertons to help locate my brother; Boyle would take down whatever information Father provided and transmit it, by telephone, to his agency in Boston.
Miss Lizzie’s sitting room—in which, as in most sitting rooms of the period, no one ever actually sat—lay on ...the north side of the building, and from its window I could clearly see our own summer rental. Less than an hour after Da Silva and the others had departed, I watched through the curtain as another detatchment of police arrived. With much honking of horn and ringing of bells, their black van slowly shouldered aside the reluctant crowd before my house.
Four in all, the policemen tumbled from the van like Keystone Kops and leaned their way through the swarm, which was buzzing now, aroused from its lethargy.MoreLess
Miss Lizzie’s sitting room—in which, as in most sitting rooms of the period, no one ever actually sat—lay on ...the north side of the building, and from its window I could clearly see our own summer rental. Less than an hour after Da Silva and the others had departed, I watched through the curtain as another detatchment of police arrived. With much honking of horn and ringing of bells, their black van slowly shouldered aside the reluctant crowd before my house.
Four in all, the policemen tumbled from the van like Keystone Kops and leaned their way through the swarm, which was buzzing now, aroused from its lethargy.MoreLess
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