I never waste my time,” retortedSleuth with dignity.
Sage descended and bade Piper good-night at the door, watching Sleuthslouch away toward the distant lights of the village, a few of which gleamed through the darkness.
Sleuth turned and waited as Fred called his name and came hurrying up.
It was verging on twilight when Sleuth departed, and something like half an hour later Fred reached home.
Under any circumstances, Sleuth wouldn’t do that—alone.
The appearance of the party in the village created a great sensation; but when the citizens were informed that Sleuth and Roy had effected the man’s capture, the sensation was even greater.
Fred attempted again to interest himself in his book, but in spite of his efforts, his mind wandered from the story, and he repeatedly found himself thinking of Sleuth and the matter they had discussed.
They were standing there as Sleuth Piper came up, passed them and entered the building, turning to cast a swift glance in their direction.
At any rate, in the midst of the confusion attendant upon the return of the securities Sleuth slipped through the open door and made all possible haste to leave the bank.
The darkness masked the smile of satisfaction that Sleuth could not repress.
Sleuth Piper seemed to develop a sudden remarkable fondness for Fred Sage, upon whom he persisted in thrusting himself whenever possible, although he endeavored to make his actions seem natural and unpremeditated.
But, although he tiptoed forward with great caution, Sleuthdetected his approach, and, having finished reading the letter, hastily folded the missive and thrust it into his pocket.
Seemingly dazed and crushed, Sleuth permitted Fred to drag him from the crowd, and when he had read the letter from Jorlemon and Gates he was a very sick-looking chap indeed.
In the shadows of the patrons’ side of the cashier window, Sleuth Piper congratulated himself again.
It seems to have been a case of sleuth against sleuth, with the match all square.
When the head-sleuth came that night to report his discomfiture, I cut him short in his theorizing and asked for the facts.
He was energetic and resolute as a sleuth hound on the scent; so he soon made one or two discoveries.
To his unspeakable disgust the supposed sleuth grinned affably at his supposed quarry and said: "Ah, Hyman!
Was that fair, Solon, to pit a sleuth as relentless as Billy against poor Potts?
Ten seconds later on my boar's sleuth follows Boca-Negra, a veritable Beth Gelert.
The leader must combine some of the qualities of a field-marshal with the skill of a deer-stalker, and a bit of red-Indian sleuth thrown in.
Maybe it strikes you as a chesty bluff for a juvenile party like me to start with no more clew than that to round up in a few hours what a high-priced sleuth agency would take a week for.
Bot Ik haiff herd oftymys say, That quha endland a watter ay Wald waid a bowdraucht, he suld ger Bathe the slouth hund, and his leder, Tyne the sleuth men gert hym ta.
It is, of course, all quite wonderful and most excellent reading, and the old-style sleuth really thought he could do it!
Now, the more difficult and complicated his task the less likely is the sleuth (honest or otherwise) to succeed.
Thus, you are more likely to find a detective from a national agency than a sleuth from 300 Mulberry Street, New York, following a forger to Australasia or Polynesia.
Is the professional sleuth working on a fixed salary for a regular agency and doing a dozen different jobs each month as likely to bring to bear upon your own private problem as much intelligence as you yourself?
One can hardly picture a modernsleuth delaying long in an attempt to evangelize his quarry, but these general principles are the right stuff and shine like good deeds in a naughty world.
You located the outlaws for us, and now you’re going out to be the candy boy in the sleuth game.
They’ll see our lights, and we might as well try to sleuth out a moonshiner with a brass band.
Young Sleuthand the Dashing Girl Detective; or, Working with a Lady Agent of Scotland Yard.
Illustration: Suddenly Young Sleuth landed a terrific blow on the jaw of the Englishman.
Young Sleuthin Chinatown; or, The Mystery of an Opium Den.
Young Sleuth After Stolen Millions; or, The Keen Detective and the Safe Blowers.
Young Sleuthand the Beautiful Actress; or, The Diamond Thieves of New York.
Young Sleuth Behind the Scenes; or, The Keen Detective’s Great Theater Case.
Young Sleuth as a Hotel Detective; or, Solving the Terrible Mystery of Room 17.
Young Sleuth on the Rail; or, Working Against the Train Robbers.
Young Sleuth and the Widow in Black; or, Tracking a Child Stealer of New York.
Indeed, he had been upstairs only three or four times since Mr. Sleuth had been with them, and when his landlord had had occasion to wait on him the lodger had remained silent.
It was curious that Mr. Sleuth possessed no notepaper.
But far from going out on any business, horrible or other, Mr. Sleuth now never went out at all.
However, that did not affect Mr. Sleuth adversely.
Mr. Sleuth did not take his money with him when he went out, he generally left it in one of the drawers below the old-fashioned looking-glass.
And yet, though she searched high and low for it, she could not find the place where Mr. Sleuth kept it.
How strange that Mr. Sleuth said nothing of the hoarse cries which had made of the road outside a perfect Bedlam every hour or two throughout that day.
Mr. Sleuth was evidently about to do what he had never yet done.
She remembered exactly how it had looked when Mr. Sleuth had first stood, a strange, queer-looking figure of a man, on her doorstep.
Mr. Sleuth swerved to one side; there came a terrible change over his pale, narrow face; it became discomposed, livid with rage and terror.
That means I'm to lick you whenever you need it," I told Jimmie, for I had already discovered that my young sleuth needed considerable repressing from time to time.
The little sleuth wheeled off in the direction of the nearest drug store.
Paul Braddon 262 Jack Wright and His Ocean Sleuth Hound; or, Tracking an Under Water Treasure.
The bank president had spoken to nobody save the detective about the toy, and the sleuth was as close-mouthed as a clam.
My deduction is,” interrupted Sleuth Piper, “that he will come back.
Seizing Davis by the elbow, Sleuth Piper drew him aside and whispered mysteriously behind his hand: “Listen to the deduction into which I have been led by the present surprising turn of affairs,” pleaded Sleuth.
The other witnesses were William Pickle, Roger Eliot, Sleuth Piper, and Spotty Davis, the last mentioned displaying a great deal of uneasiness, which at times amounted almost to fear.
Sleuth Piper, assuming an air of caution and mystery.
That is the identical shred,” declared Sleuth positively, handing it back.
Sleuth rose to his feet, and there was a stir among those boys of the academy who had absented themselves from school to attend the trial.
Sleuth Piper did his part by taking care of Morehead, and, his teeth set, Hayden came through that opening.
In front of the post office Chub Tuttle was munching peanuts and telling Sile Crane and Sleuth Piper of the wonderful manner in which Stone had defended Amy Eliot from Tige Fletcher’s dogs.
Sleuth mysteriously, glancing all around, as if fearful of being overheard.
Sleuth Piper, succeeding in keeping his man busy, aided Stone in getting through; and Ben was just in time to meet Boothby, who had received the ball from Merwin and was plunging at that very spot in the line.
It didn't look promisin' for sleuth work at first.
If he is the criminal genius who succeeds in doing all these things, there is the element of chance that will turn up some bit of information which will put the vigilant sleuth on his track.
You, gentlemen, have been, as we say in sleuth circles, 'roped.
The sleuth would have sworn he had led the bookkeeper into a confession.
There wa'n't any need to do the sleuth act after Marjorie got started.
I had to sit up and give him the Old Sleuth stare at that.
Perhaps, too, it was with his pathetic quest of a patent of nobility in view that the sleuth thought out a plan for the consolidation of imperial Germany, which in his opinion must recommend itself to his omnipotent friend Bismarck.
It is not surprising, therefore, to hear that the boastful sleuth displayed a ferocity of disposition to the conquered populations which one always suspects to be part of his base and treacherous character.
The store sleuthhe stares puzzled for a second; but the near-English top coat must have impressed him, for he goes sneakin' back down the main aisle.
The gentleman sleuth shrugs his shoulders and allows that if Mr. Ellins ain't satisfied he might go up to Floor 11 and ask for himself.
And by followin' her scared glances I discovers this low-brow store sleuth scowlin' ugly at her.
The French sleuth never moved a muscle, and it was as if the warning had been passed to a man stone deaf.
But the hint of an interesting personality had been betrayed to the public, the name of a new sleuth had gone on record, and the infection of curiosity spread like a mulberry rash from newspaper office to newspaper office.
Then Peg asked: "You'd like to be Sleuth Gerry, wouldn't you?
I haven't been a sleuth long enough to be sure about anything," the president smilingly admitted.
The president, being aware of this, said as soon as Sleuth Bertha had read the minutes of the last meeting: "Geraldine and Doris look as though they would burst if they didn't tell us something.
We'll have to put you on the sleuth committee, Bursie, but do hurry and tell us the worst.
Doris patted their youngest as she approved: "Observation is surely an excellent trait for a sleuth to develop.
Sleuth Doris regretfully told them that Danny's mother's name was Martha O'Neil, and so the mystery was no nearer a solution than it had been.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sleuth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: detective; dog; eye; fed; hound; investigator; operative; plainclothesman; revenuer; sleuth; spy
