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"Oh, if he were a heavy hitter!" groaned many voices. Yedding was confident much too confident. He laughed in Frank's face. He did not think it necessary to watch the man on first closely, and so that man found an opportunity to steal second. Two strikes and two balls had been called. Then Yedding sent in a swift one to cut the inside corner. Merriwell swung at it. Crack!

Whopper spent most of his time fishing and brought in, besides trout and perch, several good sized maskalonge, although no particular fish as large as the maskalonge Giant had captured the summer previous. As the days went by and nothing more was heard of the mysterious voice, the young hunters grew more confident and almost forgot about the affair.

We would be free to move about the ship, join in its activities. It ought to be possible to locate the signal room, get friendly with the operator there. Perhaps we could find a secret opportunity to flash a signal to Earth. This ship, I was confident, would have the power for a long range signal, if not of too sustained a length.

They were confident that German U-boats were beginning to infest the sea bordering on the Atlantic coast of the United States. One might pop up at any time and take a shot at the tender. A sharp lookout was kept, and the gun crews scarcely slept. Every sail or streamer of smoke created excitement on board. But the first night passed in safety and the day broke charmingly.

In the presence of others, there was an air of familiar intimacy that seemed to arrogate a right, which to her he scrupulously shunned to assert. Nothing could be more respectful, nay, more timid, than his language, or more calmly confident than his manner.

By the prince's manner I knew that he felt confident of making big profits. The great Ganskau, the Rothschild of Russia, desired Gregory's aid, and Gregory would assist him at a price. While we were talking Madame Vyrubova rang on the telephone to inquire if Rasputin had left for Tsarskoe-Selo. I replied in the negative, whereupon she said: "Tell him not to come to-night.

As she thought these things and quickly put away the thoughts, since nothing must spoil this hour there was a rap at the door, and she went to throw it open, confident that she would see Nick smiling at her, saying in his nice voice, "Well, are you ready?" But it was not Nick. A bellboy of the hotel had brought up a large cardboard box which had arrived by post. The address was printed: "Mrs.

"Still, another thing, my child," she went on in a more confident voice. "This is thy native land, and the old man who was just sitting here at my side was my father." And there, in the shadow of the birch-trees, in the summer stillness of that hour, she told him the story of her love, of her flight, and of the misery of these long, toilsome five and twenty years.

I am confident that you have murdered my son! "I felt indignant at so insulting a charge. 'You hoary and lecherous villain! I exclaimed, 'if I had been inclined to kill any of your worthless family, it is with you I should most assuredly have commenced.

The good uncle did not consider his own forces strong enough to make head against the joint troops of his brother and his nephew; he declined battle and withdrew to the forest of Brotonne, between Rouen and the sea. Theudebert and Childebert girdled the forest, and quietly awaited the night, confident of catching the beloved brother and uncle in the net.