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But if you care anything for him, you'd best let me go to him as fast as we can travel." "Why? Is ?" "Unless I read wrongly what we saw, back yonder in the clearing," he said, cryptically, "your brother is in sore need of every friend he can muster. I had only a glimpse of our subterranean half-man. But there was a gash across his eyebrow, and a mass of bruises on his throat.

The tall palms nodded languorously, their deep green heads faintly chafing like sleeping crickets; the tinkle of the sands came up to her ears like tiny bells. Dolores followed with her eyes two swiftly moving figures on the shore path, hidden from the ocean by a mass of verdure, and she smiled cryptically.

Life, held in a great unutterable calm, seemed to lie out there in the radiant, vague distance, asleep and smiling cryptically while it slept. Her eyes turned to Starr, whose name she did not know; who had twice come riding out of the distance to do her some slight service before he rode on into the distance that seemed so vast. Who was he?

"You'll get yours, you big slob!" "Eh?" The sergeant cocked an ear alertly, "Beek slab? What is that in Russian?" "It's your middle name," retorted Waters cryptically and made to move on. "Do svidania!" called the sergeant mockingly, raising his voice to a shout. "Till we meet again! Because I shall be watching you, Votters; I shall be." "Here!"

"What are you doing over there, anyhow?" "Wait and see," said Joe, cryptically. "If you think you're going to be the only Central Park in this vicinity you've got to think again." He hesitated and glanced around, but the small Wilkinsons were searching for worms in the overturned garden mold. "How's Edith?" he asked. "She's all right, Joe." "Seeing anybody yet?" "Not yet.

Byrd is going to paint me as something without a soul I think I will dance," she cryptically vouchsafed. "Shall I play?" offered Constance, delighted. Miss Berber turned to the languid musician. "Have you your ocarina, Marchmont?" she breathed. "I always carry it, Felicity," he replied, with a reproachful look, drawing from his pocket what appeared to be a somewhat contorted meerschaum pipe.

She closed the inlaid doors of the cupboard, and locked them with a key which hung from a ribbon inside her dress. Such a precaution was hardly needed, since the writing was all in English, and she had recorded the events of the last few weeks cautiously and cryptically.

But," he asserted cryptically, "I happen to know that wasn't so." "Then what did he go down there for?" demanded Nan indignantly, but not warily. McAlpin, the situation now in hand, took his time to it. He leaned forward in a manner calculated to invite confidence without giving offense. "Miss Nan," said he simply, "I worked for your Uncle Duke for five years you know that."

"It's so difficult you see, if I'm wrong oh, it would be dreadful." She made a grimace at the unconscious Jane. "Never forgive me," she observed cryptically. "You want me to help you out, eh?" "Yes, please. YOU know who Mr. Brown is, don't you?" "Yes," said Sir James gravely. "At last I do." "At last?" queried Tuppence doubtfully. "Oh, but I thought " She paused.

"I should be a jolly sight more uncomfortable with you," said Jim. "And I've got keen on the Empire since I've been travelling." "Oh, if you've seen it," said Mr. Birket, somewhat cryptically, and then the door opened, and Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Birket came in together. Mrs. Birket was a tall, good-looking woman, who held herself upright, was well dressed and well informed.