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He took Merton aside, in private talk.... Ally looked me over with a keen, swift glance that appraised me from head to foot instantly ... sharply but not hostilely ... as one who takes in a situation in a comprehensive instant. "Yes, Mr. Mackworth, I can do it easily ... if they'll fit him." There was an impersonality, however, about Merton's cryptic words that annoyed me.
His investigations were certainly not purposeless; and, as I walked by his side trying to conceive some purpose in his actions, I only became more and more mystified as I recalled them one by one, and perhaps most of all by the cryptic questions that I had just heard him address to the equally mystified porter. The Track Chart
Please do me the justice to remark that I have been in Italy for several paragraphs without once referring to the Old Masters. But the fact is that I have not been much at the Masked Balls. Does this saying seem cryptic?
As nearly as imperfect humanity may, Average Jones appeared to be smiling indulgently at the end of his own nose. "Dare say you're right er in part, Bert. But I've also a hunch that our man Robinson is himself the delusion as well as the object." "I wish you wouldn't be cryptic, Average," said his friend pathetically.
"One never can tell when such news might leak out." His uncle surveyed him sternly. But Charlie's cryptic gaze met his uncle's, undisturbed. "Some one might tell," he gently observed, and said no more. It was some time before Mr. Hurd raised a thoughtful yet somewhat amused face to that of his caller. "I'll consider the matter," he said tersely.
"Careful over what, Aunt Juley?" Mrs. Munt assumed a cryptic air. "It is only that a certain family, whom we know by name but do not mention, as you said yourself last night after the concert, have taken the flat opposite from the Mathesons where the plants are in the balcony." Helen began some laughing reply, and then disconcerted them all by blushing. Mrs.
"I 'ave ascertained that Stiletto, Wraith, and Kobbold left at 6 P. M. with the first division o' Red Fleet's cruisers except Devulotion and Cryptic, which are delayed by engine-room defects." Then to me: "Won't you go aboard? Mr. Moorshed 'ud like some one to talk to. You buy an 'am an see life."
She was stout and heavy, where Milano was swift and graceful; she was frankness itself where Milano was cryptic; and, finally, she was the owner of a very lively curiosity.
Septimius took little or no notice of the raillery of the grim old doctor, but employed the rest of the time in getting as much information as he could out of his guest; and though he could not bring himself to show him the precious and sacred manuscript, yet he questioned him as closely as possible without betraying his secret, as to the modes of finding out cryptic writings.
"From first to last the cryptic writing and symbolism of that wondrous tomb of that wondrous woman is full of guiding light; and the key of the many mysteries lies in that most wondrous Jewel which she held in her dead hand over the dead heart, which she hoped and believed would beat again in a newer and nobler world! "There are only loose ends now to consider.
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