Crossword-Solution: FORTYFIVE 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

Just a little while ago, three men tried to get away and they turned bloodhounds after them and shot them dead-and they weren’t bad men either.” When our untasted supper was over that night we were ordered into the square, bare-walled “recreation” room, where we and the other prisoners sat, and sat, and sat, our chairs against the walls, a dreary sight indeed, waiting for the fortyfive minutes before bedtime to pass.

The platform was cold and draughty, offering no inducements to linger for the arrival of the sure-to-be belated "ten-fifty." Peter Barcroft was a thick-set man of fortyfive.

The application to me is this,--"Messrs Touissaint, Doutremont & Co., merchants of great credit at Leghorn, who obtained, fortyfive years ago, letters of nobility from the Court of France, pray the gentlemen, the deputies of the United States of America, to grant them the place of Consul, or of Agent of their commerce at Leghorn." At least, if Congress, or their Ministers, have occasion for a correspondent in that city, they will not be at a loss.