Word: atwoods
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Seven o'clock came, then eight, finally nine. When it was almost ten, the Atwood and Holmes' phones rang nearly simultaneously, and Mr. Atwood and Mr. Holmes received identical messages: "Dad, we're going to be married right away...
...going to do no such dam' thing;" Mr. Atwood told...
...hoped to sing Fair Harvard at your graduation and greet you as a fellow alumnus," Mr. Atwood told Eric, "but in the circumstances I think it best you matriculate at UCLA." He broke off with a chuckle. "There are scads of pretty girls in Los Angeles. Before the first semester's over you'll have forgotten there ever was an Alice Holmes...
...highway patrolman brought the news to the Atwood and Holmes houses and broke it as tactfully as possible. Somewhere Eric had procured some photographic developer, a compound more than fifty per cent potas. sium cyanide. The children had been found dead in Eric's parked car, and there was ample evidence that, in their case, at least, the popular belief that cyanide of potassium causes quick and painless death was untrue...
...pure chance that brought the the Holmes and Atwood families to my place at the same time. For a moment they glared at each other, then in the twinkling of an eye the two women were in each other's arms, sobbing heart-brokenly. The two men exchanged a silent handclasp...