Had its mission been to serve as a blanket to this crime by wiping out from the old snow all tell-tale footsteps and such other records as simplify cases of this kind for the detectives, it could not have happened more apropos to the event.

His eye had fallen again on the bottle, and, in its shape and tell-tale label, he beheld a witness bound to testify against him if he kept silent himself.

Now, Pambo, is the time for you: Beat little Tell-Tale black & blue.

A NIGHT ALARM XII THE TELL-TALE MATCH-SAFE

He was cheered to think that his labours at the binnacle were bearing fruit, and grateful that Monk was so busy being an invalid waited upon and pitied by a beautiful volunteer nurse that he was willing to trust the navigation to Mr. Swain and had no time to observe by the tell-tale whether or not the course he had prescribed was being followed.

If the Squire of Barracombe overlooked from his terrace garden the inhabitants of the village and the tell-tale doorway of the much-frequented inn on the high-road belowhis tenants in the valley and on the hillside were privileged in turn to observe the goings-in and comings-out of their beloved landlord almost as intimately; nor did they often tire of discussing his movements, his doings, and even his intentions.

But a more tender tell-tale revealed the secretrevealed it, before the marquise could cover the disgrace.

[280] The Tell-Tale.

This he did, and the tell-tale signature of 'M. Pascal, Paris,' still remains as a token of the accuracy of this narrative.

For with a whisk of my wing I brush my feet clear of the tell-tale silveriness!

he said, studying her face until the tell-tale blood stole to her very temples.

For a second her lids fell in a tell-tale manner, and her cheeks paled and reddened with each alternating emotion.

Hers was a tell-tale faceit portrayed every emotion.

He was nearly done, with a tell-tale wheeze in his lungs, with blood pressure making his eyes start well-nigh from his head, and a bloody froth choking him.

EPILOGUE TO HENRY SIDDONS' FARCE, "TIME'S A TELL-TALE" (1807) Bound for the port of matrimonial bliss,

Epilogue to "Time's a Tell-Tale.

'When did you hear it?' 'Well;it is in the "Daily Tell-tale."

And, but for the tell-tale riot of the streams and the sponginess of the compound, there was nothing to betray the past misdeeds of the clerk of the weather.

He leaves a characteristic ripple and tell-tale bubbles of air and streaks of oil.

The tell-tale body is all tongues.

The single shot they had heard, the tell-tale revolver close to the dead man's hand, were clear evidence of what had occurred.

"Do you think it then quite impossible for cousins to love?" Ellen bent lower over her embroidery-frame, for she felt a tell-tale flush was rising to her cheek, and without looking up, replied calmly "Miss Harcourt is a proof that such love can and does existmore often, perhaps, in a woman's heart.

" The varying emotions I have noticed were clearly traceable as they swept over her tell-tale countenance during the minute or so that elapsed before she spoke.

A tell-tale mark on the surface of the fly-wheel showed friction against something, and we found that while the wheel ran freely if we were out of the machine, with the load in, and especially on up grades with the chain drawing the framework closer to the running gear, the rim of the wheel just grazed a bolt-head in a small brace underneath, thereby producing the peculiar grating noise we had heard and materially checking the motor.

But if the tell-tale air test were to exhibit in the morning, both to nurses and patients, and to the superior officer going round, what the atmosphere has been during the night, I question if any greater security could be afforded against a recurrence of the misdemeanor.