In fact my hastily formed calculation was, as we know, subsequently borne out and the suicide theory would probably have been quietly accepted had it not been for the intervention of Gervase Henshaw with his smartness and incredulity.

" All doubt of her father's sinister intervention in Jack's disappearance now took the form of certainty in the girl's mind.

Then, if we take this as our starting point, remembering that at the stage of this original movement there can be no intervention by a second power, because there is none, why should we mentally impose any restriction upon the action of the Creative Power?

[Footnote 1: From the outbreak of war in August 1914, Bissolati strongly advocated Italian intervention on the side of the Allies.

I fancy," he added with an ugly significance, "that the police will be quite equal to dealing with the situation without any assistance or intervention from me.

"Your wife simply came to beg my intervention with the management to secure her a room in the" "Chuck it!"

"The diplomacy of the Wilhelmstrasse," says Baron Beyens, "applied itself, above all, to calm the exasperation and the desire for intervention at the Ballplatz."

The whole scheme of non-co-operation must break to pieces, if our final reliance is to be upon British intervention for the adjustment of our quarrels or the punishment of the guilty ones.

The stream was a little stream; yet Dante felt it as great an intervention between them, as if it had been Leander's Hellespont.

Some would have been ready to advocate intervention as a duty.

With the question of Grecian intervention out of the way, the Allies then occupied themselves with the attitude of Rumania and the intervention of Russia in behalf of Serbia, in order that the latter country might be saved from the fate of Belgium.

We, in Hungary, thought the same; but against us is that monstrous principle of armed intervention against setting up an example.

So he invented an excuse postponing his intervention until the morrow, and when he returned home tired with roaming, he stopped on his door-step.