AN EXPLANATION XVII WHAT A GIRL SAW XVIII THE LOST BROOCH XIX IN THE CHURCHYARD XX AN INVOLUNTARY EAVESDROPPER XXI GIFFORD CONTINUES HIS STORY XXII HOW

" CHAPTER XX AN INVOLUNTARY EAVESDROPPER

"Playing the eavesdropper, eh?" came from Flockley with a sneer.

As he looked he beheld this fellow go straight to the great cabin, where he disappeared with a cunning leer upon his face, so that our hero could not but be aware that the purpose of the eavesdropper must be to communicate all that he had overheard to his master.

Not only would I hate to have him scorn me for an eavesdropper, but I had already built up a great plan for the use I could make of what I had overheard.

THE EAVESDROPPER III JOHN

CHAPTER II THE EAVESDROPPER

No eavesdropper could ever have caught the least word or gesture to justify it.

Could a malicious eavesdropper have assisted at the secret operations of her inmost mind, even then he could scarcely have seen aught to justify it.

hearer, auditor, listener, eavesdropper, listener-in. auditory, audience.

[person who desires knowledge] inquirer; sightseer; quidnunc [Lat.], newsmonger, Paul Pry, eavesdropper; gossip &c (news) 532; rubberneck; intellectual; seeker [inquirer after religious knowledge], seeker after truth.

informant, authority, teller, intelligencer^, reporter, exponent, mouthpiece; informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective; sleuth; mouchard^, spy, newsmonger; messenger &c 534; amicus curiae [Lat.].

The conversation, of which he was the eavesdropper, was carried on by fits and starts.

All claim on the part of the girl was thus virtually excluded, for the proceedings which took place that evening in another room, under circumstances of suspicion, were sworn to only by Mrs. Hislop herself, an interested witness, and were only partially confirmed by an eavesdropper, who, as eavesdroppers generally do (except when their own characters are concerned), perhaps heard according as foregone prejudices induced her to wish.

When Godfrey, who was not far off, though he had not thought it best to play the part of eavesdropper again, heard the door close, he hurried into the room.

Now, Merriwell did not believe in playing the eavesdropper on any one, but he fancied Harry saw something he wished to show him, so he went forward lightly, placed another chair, got upon it, and looked over the screen.

"Had an eavesdropper, did you?

The trite proverb that "walls have ears" was perhaps never more fully exemplified than when applied to those of the Louvre at that period; many of them, and those all connected with the more public apartments, being composed of double panelling, between which a sufficient space had been left to admit of the passage of an eavesdropper, and the closet in question chanced to be one of these convenient lurking-places.

I played eavesdropper, or I wouldna know it to pass it on to ye, but it's tae gude tae lose, for a' that.

"Don't you see that if we made him angry he would betray us to Mr. Camp, and" Then they passed out of hearing, leaving me almost desperate, both at being an eavesdropper to such a conversation, and that Madge could think so meanly of me.

No less a motive could have induced me to become an eavesdropper.

I am not by nature an eavesdropper, but the girl was clearly making a plea of some kind, and the chaplain’s stalwart figure awoke in me an antagonism that held me to the wall.

“So you are an eavesdropper and detective, are you?

“Or be an eavesdropper or hear pleasant words from the master of Glenarm—” “But I don’t know where you are going—you haven’t told me anything—you are slipping out into the world—” She did not hear or would not answer.

The past events at Glenarm swept through my mind in kinetoscopic flashes, but the girl in gray talking to Arthur Pickering and his friends at the Annandale station, the girl in gray who had been an eavesdropper at the chapel,—the girl in gray with the eyes of blue!