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"Yes," he replied after a moment. "Are you quite certain?" Mr. Latham insisted. Something in the tone caused Mr. Czenki to raise his beady black eyes questioningly for an instant, after which he walked over to a window and adjusted his magnifying glass again. For a moment or more he stood there, then: "It's the same stone," he announced positively.
On the opposite side of the fire-place there was a tall, rather grim-looking lady, also in mourning, and with an elaborate headdress of bugles and ornaments of a feathery and beady nature, which were supposed to be flowers.
But I think you will find no doctor here who will have anything to say about poison." She moved a little nearer to me. The overhanging bunch of scarlet geraniums from her waistband brushed against my coat; the beady black eyes of the dog upon her shoulder were fixed steadily upon me. "Has he said anything?" she murmured. "Not yet," I answered.
Presently Beady Jones and Braverman bustled in, carrying the packs. Then Budd jumped up and ran to them. He returned to the table, carrying a demijohn, which he banged upon the table. "Whisky!" exclaimed Kells. "Take that away. We can't drink and gamble." "Watch me!" replied Blicky. "Let them drink, Kells," declared Gulden. "We'll get their dust quicker. Then we can have our game."
He was quite alone now, save for the quiet figure on the ground and a hoodie crow which was perched on a swaying branch at a little distance, watching the living and the dead with anxious beady eyes. Down under the top layer of sand the ground was stony, and the man who dug was weak from long tramping in search of the gold he could not find.
She insisted that the Doctor should call twice a day; and deluged her patient with draughts every two hours. When anybody entered the room, she uttered a shshshsh so sibilant and ominous, that it frightened the poor old lady in her bed, from which she could not look without seeing Mrs. Bute's beady eyes eagerly fixed on her, as the latter sate steadfast in the arm-chair by the bedside.
In council of the secret clan the war-prophet and the sub-chief voiced for war. The old chiefs and the wise men grown stiff from riding and conservative toward a useless waste of young warriors, blinked their beady eyes in protest but they did not imperil their popularity by advice to the contrary. The young men's blood-thirst and desire for distinction could not be curbed.
I could go with a guard, but to tell you the truth, Rathburn, it's got to a point where I can't trust a soul." "Why not Mannix?" asked Rathburn sharply. Sautee shook his head; his beady, black eyes glowed, and he stroked his chin. "There's another sorrowful point," he explained. "I tell you we're up against it here, Rathburn.
You won't deny that you have been what you call `spoony, in your abominable slang, eh, Frank?" she repeated, with a knowing glance from her beady black eyes. "Pay her attention, Miss Pimpernell," I said impetuously. "Good heavens! Why, at one time I would have died for her, and let my body be cut into little pieces, if it would only have done her any good!"
The little old lady had the newspaper in her hand, and her beady eyes were shining with excitement. "It's all in here, Mr. Fraser about your capture and escape. But you didn't tell us all of it. Perhaps you didn't know, though, that they had plans to storm the jail and hang you?" "Yes, I knew that," the Texan answered coolly. "The jailer told me what was coming to me.
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