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Miss West didn't mean to shirk her duty. In most things the begoggled lady was a visionary with a theory that if you don't talk about a thing it does not exist; and like most of her kind she swept the disagreeables into a dust heap and made for the high places where all was lovely.
It isn't every one that can go a journey. No doubt one that owns an automobile cannot go. The spirit of the age has got him fast. Begoggled and with awful squawks, feverish, exultant, ignorant, he is condemned to hoot over the earth. Thus the wealthy know nothing of journeys, for they must own motors. Vain people and envious people and proud people cannot go, because the wealthy do not.
"The fact is it would be more convenient for me to go day after to-morrow than to-morrow." "Then you'd better rent a house," was the begoggled one's sharp and brief advice. "Why so?" queried the great man, startled. "Because if you don't get out to-morrow, you may not get out for months." "As I understand the Dutch permit, it specifies AFTER to-day." "It isn't a question of the Dutch.
Round and through these wagon-trains, in a swirl of dust, rumbled and swayed big motor-trucks, and once or twice, scattering everything with a lilting "Ta-te... Ta-da" the gray motor, the flash of scarlet, pale blue, and gold, and the bronzed, begoggled, imperial visage of some one high in command.
Its crescent panes of itanoid begoggled her. Behind him, Georg could hear people advancing. A guard picked them out with a white flash. The mounting flames of the tower bathed everything in red. A block of stone fell near at hand, crashing through the metallic platform upon which they were standing. Broken, it sagged beneath their feet. Georg tore at the girl's head-piece, lifted it off.
Pendant from the blowpipe, the bulb was placed over the hot-bench, where Stevens, now begoggled, begloved, and armed with a welding torch, proceeded to fuse into the still, almost plastic, glass sundry necks, side-tubes, supports and other attachments of peculiar pattern.
"You may proceed, Mister District Attorney!" he announced, and little Pepperill, the youngest of the D.A.'s staff, just out of the law school, begoggled and with his hair plastered evenly down on either side of his small round head, rose with serious mien, and with a high piping voice opened the prosecution. It was, he told them, a most unusual and hence most important case.
"Let that go for the moment. Do you know Miss Brewster's insulter?" "No." "Are you telling me the truth?" asked the Southerner sternly. The begoggled one's chin jerked up. To the trained eye of Cluff, swift to interpret physical indications, it seemed that Perkins's weight had almost imperceptibly shifted its center of gravity.
On came the roaring racer. The car was just a gray blur that hardly seemed to touch the beach, and begoggled Dan Dacy looked like the hooded messenger of death. Then with an ear-splitting roar the great machine passed the scouts on the last mile of the course! "By Jiminy, it's a new record or I'll Oh mercy! Look! Look! She'll be killed!" The scouts stood transfixed with horror.
Well, as I've wasted so much of your time to-day, I'll accept your orders for to-morrow." "And please impress your father with the extreme advisability of your getting off this island." "Yes, sir," she said meekly. "You'll be most awfully glad to get rid of us, won't you?" "Very greatly relieved." "And a little bit sorry?" The begoggled face turned toward her.
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