George A. Birmingham

Name: The Search Party — Chapter 20
Author: George A. Birmingham

The Search Party — Chapter 20 (1912)

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“The Search Party — Chapter 20”, published in 1912, is a work by George A. Birmingham. It explores elements such as Susy Lizzie, Bridgy and Goddard.

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George A. Birmingham, The Search Party — Chapter 20 (1912)

“ Approaching the village from the west you come upon the shop door first, then that of the hotel.
"I dare say you're right," said Lord Manton. "Unless Moriarty is a young man with quite remarkable powers of persuasion, Miss Blow's temper is likely to be very bad indeed."
"She'll find out, of course," said Mr. Goddard, "that the sergeant really has gone off in the direction of Rosivera, and taken Cole with him. That ought to pacify her to some extent. Still, I think I'll avoid an interview as long as I can." ”

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George A. Birmingham, The Search Party — Chapter 20 (1912)

“ Sanders was afflicted with a weak heart.
"Isn't there some way of getting from the hotel to the shop," said Mr. Goddard, "without going out into the street? I want to speak to your uncle."
"There is surely," said Susy Lizzie. "If you step across to the grocery counter, the young gentleman that's there will show you the door."
The door, as Mr. Goddard found when the young gentleman opened it for him, led directly to the hotel bar. Jimmy O'Loughlin was serving out bottles of porter to about a dozen customers. There was a babble of talk, which ceased abruptly as Mr. Goddard entered. ”

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George A. Birmingham, The Search Party — Chapter 20 (1912)

“ I'm not sure could I get her, for she's busy with the pig's food and would be wanting to clean herself before she'd come. But there's no need anyway, for I can tell you the way she quietened the doctor's young lady as well as she'd tell it herself, and maybe better, for she might be backward in speaking out before a gentleman. 'The sergeant bid me say,' says Bridgy, 'that he's off this quarter of an hour, and has took Constable Cole along with him.' Only for Moriarty being there and listening to her Bridgy says the young lady would have cursed awful at hearing that. ”

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George A. Birmingham, The Search Party — Chapter 20 (1912)

“ Goddard.
He had glanced at five more telegrams which came from the police who lived in towns where trains stopped. They all denied any knowledge of the Members of Parliament.
"I was saying," said Jimmy, "that maybe since the gentlemen that's wanted can't be found, the ones they'd be sending over to us from Glasgow might be some comfort to the ladies. Susy Lizzie, what are you doing standing there with a grin on your face that a man could post a letter through? Aren't you ugly enough the way God made you without twisting the mouth that's on you into worse than it is? ”

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George A. Birmingham, The Search Party — Chapter 20 (1912)

“ Members of Parliament cannot be found. Goddard, District Inspector."
Susy Lizzie, working at high speed, got these messages despatched and went on with those to Dublin, Kingstown, Rosslare, and Queenstown. Then Mr. Goddard handed her a bundle of forms which contained his appeals to the police at the railway stations. He felt that he had done all that could be done to discover the escaped gentlemen. It is impossible, as Mr. Goddard knew, to get out of Ireland without going either to Great Britain or America. Derry and Queenstown were the ports of exit westwards. ”

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George A. Birmingham, The Search Party — Chapter 20 (1912)

“ Anyway, they said they were going to lie down, and Bridgy brought up a can of hot water apiece for them, and I didn't see them since. There was talk," he added, " of their being up and dressed again to be down ready at the barrack at four o'clock, that being the hour at which they were expecting Sergeant Farrelly to be back."
"Those," said Mr. Goddard, "are probably Mrs. Dick and Mrs. Sanders." ”

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George A. Birmingham, The Search Party — Chapter 20 (1912)

“ There's the doctor's young lady has the big front room, and yourself and the other three ladies has all the rest of the bedrooms there is in it, and the like of a high-up man such as the Inspector-General will be looking for something better than a sofa in the drawing-room. I don't know either is Bridgy fit to cook the sort of dinner he'd be accustomed to. ”

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George A. Birmingham, The Search Party — Chapter 20 (1912)

“ In that case he would hear of them from one of his railway stations. Even the most energetic Member of Parliament would not be likely to do more than fifty miles on his bicycle over west of Ireland roads, and Mr. ”

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