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A steward passed back and forth amongst the passengers with a universal request all were asked to repair to their staterooms. Twenty-seven exceedingly alert-looking men thereupon commenced their task.
The third person of the trio was an old, alert-looking little man, writing at the table as if for very life.
You can see at a glance, as you watch him standing by the big easel, his coat off, to give his arm freer play, squeezing the tubes of color on his palette, that he is not the boy you knew some years ago. He is, you will admit, as strong and alert-looking as he was that morning when he cleared the space in front of Margaret's brother with a cart-rung.
While the investigator was speaking to the sergeant, one of the alert-looking young men approached. "Pardon," said he. "But is there anything you'd like to say to the Star?" "No," replied Ashton-Kirk. "You are working on the Hume case, are you not?" asked the reporter with professional insistence. "Oh, I have had a little interest in it as an outsider, that is all," returned the other.
They were eager, alert-looking young men, well-muscled, curly of hair, and possessing in common an unabashed carriage of the head which, more plainly than any mere facial resemblance, proved them brothers. They, too, were nursing their knees. "He must be an unadorned ass," remarked one of the occupants of the window seats, in answer to some previous statement.
Byner next morning with considerable curiosity. And soon after eleven there was shown in to him, a smart, well-dressed, alert-looking young man, who, having introduced himself as Mr. Gerald Byner, immediately plunged into business. "You can tell me something of James Parrawhite, Mr. Eldrick?" he began. "We shall be glad we've been endeavouring to trace him for some months.
Two men entered the porch in company. One was a somewhat slight made, but alert-looking man, by name Lysimachus, and by profession a designer.
The instant they stepped from the car, Matt Larson's eyes swept the platform, alighting with a pleased expression on the figure of a wiry, alert-looking boy of perhaps eighteen, who stepped forward silently, quickly, and laid his hand in Larson's, outstretched to greet him. The boy was Indian through and through, with a fine, thin, copper-colored face, and eyes of very rare beauty.
But as he entered the gates, a quick firm footstep sounded behind him, and he turned to see a smart, alert-looking young man approaching. Bunning recognized him as a stranger whom he had seen once or twice before, at intervals, in company with Wallingford. For the second time that night he saluted. "Looking for the Mayor, sir?" he asked, throwing the gate open.
Carter, at last catching sight of his fellow travelers, noted with some apprehension that they were being pretty closely watched by an alert-looking, middle-aged man. Receiving a covert nod from Josef, the latter had disappeared at once into the human medley. With all expedition, therefore, the American rejoined them.
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