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"That's exactly what I am doing now," I remarked; "hadn't you better tell me what it is you want?" "Buy twenty hotels like that," he growled to himself; "and every joker boarding in them too twenty times over." He lifted his head smartly "I want that young chap." "I don't understand," I said. "He's no good, is he?" said Chester crisply. "I know nothing about it," I protested.

Inside six months we'll be subdividing and getting our money back." She laughed. "So you think that Shandon will jump at the chance to go into any sort of partnership with you?" "We'll make him," crisply. "He has retained Brisbane, the biggest, highest priced criminal lawyer this side the Rockies. He has cleared up his mortgage but he's had to mortgage again to do it. He's in debt up to his eyes.

Cochrane said crisply: "Jones, what speed would that be?" "It'd take a slide-rule to figure it," said Jones' voice, very calmly, "but it's faster than anything ever went before." Cochrane waited for the next beep. It did not come in ten seconds. It was easily fifteen. Even he could figure out what that meant!

"Here" he teed a ball "you do about every wrong thing you could. You don't overlook a single one. Now I'll show you. Take your stance, address the ball!" He had forgotten, in the heat of his real affection, all the difference in their stations. He was talking crisply to this Whipple as if he were merely a Cowan twin. Merle, silent, dazed, meek, did as he was directed.

Ambrosial was the bread baked by Mrs. Peters, the taciturn and serious religious person of color who attended to our cooking; the prize morsels were the ends, golden brown in hue, crunching so crisply between our teeth. I used to wonder how a being with hands so dark as those of Mrs. Peters managed to turn out dough so immaculate.

The excited twitter of their speech scaled up. "You travel with the beasts " the alien's accusation came crisply while the others gabbled. "That which hunts could not have tracked you had not the stink of the beast things been on you." "I know no beasts," Dalgard faced up to that squarely. "The sea people are my friends!"

And 'pon my word, Mrs Lawford, there's plenty of room for sceptics in a world like this. 'Very well, said Mr Bethany crisply, 'that's settled, then.

"You'll get cold if you're not careful," said his thoughtful niece. "That's the worst of men, they never seem to have any thought. Did he seem angry, or mournful, or what? I suppose you couldn't see his face?" "I didn't try," said Mr. Mott, crisply. "Good night." By the morning his ill-humour had vanished, and he even became slightly facetious over the events of the night.

A look of intense disgust spread itself over the Inspector's massive face. "Well," he concluded sheepishly, "when I broke into the room I found young Gilder along with that Turner woman he married, and they were just talking together." "No trace of the others?" Demarest questioned crisply. At the inquiry, Burke's face crimsoned angrily, then again set in grim lines.

While she heard her voice crisply explaining, "Why, you see, mother dear, I simply had to get some work done for the office " Una was telling herself, "Some day he will kiss me, and I'm not sorry he didn't to-night not now any more I'm not.... It's so strange I like to have him touch me, and I simply never could stand other men touching me!... I wonder if he's excited now, too?