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Mounting quickly when they arrived, Megget gave a curt order for his own men to follow and galloped in the same direction the ranch owners and cowboys had taken.
Smith. Yes, I'm back," returned Lane, taking the chair Smith indicated. And then he met the inevitable questions as best he could in order not to appear curt or uncivil. "I'd like to see Mr. Manton to ask for my old job," interposed Lane, presently. "He's busy now, Lane, but maybe he'll see you. I'll find out." Smith got up and went out.
"We'd be playing against stacked cards in a game like that. Take it easy now, and maybe our chance will come later." Meanwhile the sergeant had started off, and the friends had no choice but to follow him. He led them out of the tent, where a squad of soldiers was lined up. At a nod from the sergeant, these surrounded the boys, and at a curt word of command they all started off.
Siegfried, however, replies: "What do I know? All I know is that the pieces could be of no use to me until I forged the sword over again for myself." Wotan breaks out laughing: "I agree with you!" Siegfried suspecting that he has been quizzed, loses his patience, becomes curt and rough. "What are you laughing at me? Old questioner, you had better stop. Do not keep me chattering here!
For instance, that little box up there in the beaming just over your head the one that looks as if it were a part of the house electric installation is a microphone, and one of your own men helped to put it up. We've got copies of every letter and telegram you've dictated since you had this desk dragged out here a week ago Saturday." "I'm taking all that for granted," was the curt admission.
For days he leaves all the harbour work to his chief mate, the keeper of the ship's anchor and of the ship's routine. For days his voice will not be heard raised about the decks, with that curt, austere accent of the man in charge, till, again, when the hatches are on, and in a silent and expectant ship, he shall speak up from aft in commanding tones: "Man the windlass!"
But strangest was it to listen to the hot silence, to look up at the brilliant stripe of blue between the adobe walls, while over there ! The portentous uncertainty of what might be over there made his answers to Ganz's questions about his journey curt and abstracted.
He had just completed his task when the detective rejoined him. "No trace of any one," the latter announced. "Some one put up a joke on Stuart, I imagine. Find what you wished, sir?" Kent was distinctly annoyed by the question. "Yes," he replied shortly. Ferguson ignored his curt tone. "Will you spare me a few minutes of your time, Mr. Kent?" he asked persuasively. "I won't detain you long."
Allertssohn walked out of doors with a steady step, addressed his men in a few curt, vigorous words, ordered the drummers to beat their drums, while marching through the city, to rouse the people at the fair, placed himself at the head of his trusty little band, and led them towards the new Rhine.
She had, of course, wished her friend to be present at the wedding yet the curt refusal had only aroused anew her pity at stupid prejudices. It was out of the question to ask her father to leave his work in the Kentucky mountains and come all the way to New York. She would surprise him with the announcement.
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