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For a moment longer he stood there, undecided whether to laugh or swear, and then his eyes fastened mechanically on the envelope he was twirling in his fingers. Here, at least, was something that was not elusive; that, on the contrary, as a hundred others in the past had done, outlined probably a grim night's work ahead for the Gray Seal!
As she listened a delicious sensation swept through her heart, a sensation elusive and intangible. She surrendered without question. At this moment the Eve in her evaded all questions. Here was a man.
All this he could see. But there were scores of minor evolutions that appeared to him only as confused motion. One thing he caught immediately. Those lonely gyrations were not the exercise of the elusive coquetry which distinguished Peachy.
Isabel's imagination applied itself actively to this elusive point, but every now and then it was checked by a nameless dread, so that when the charming woman was away from Rome she had almost a consciousness of respite. She had already learned from Miss Stackpole that Caspar Goodwood was in Europe, Henrietta having written to make it known to her immediately after meeting him in Paris.
He had been too much baffled in his attempts to find her, she had proved too elusive for him to permit her lightly to slip through his fingers again, as it were, now, when he had the opportunity to press his claims for further recognition.
"I fear a thought would be a somewhat elusive thing to get a rope on," he ventured. "But if it could be done, Dave would do it," Irene interjected. "You remember " "Dave?" said Mrs. Hardy, sharply. "You mean Mr. Elden." The colour rose in the young woman's cheeks, but she stood by her guns. "He was Dave in those days," she said.
The most casual observer could have seen that he was engaged in calculations of an abstruse and elusive nature. "I was on'y seven when 'e started," said Mrs. Silk, sharply. Mr. Wilks brought his eyes to a level again. "Oh, seven," he remarked. "And we was married two days before my nineteenth birthday," added Mrs. Silk, whose own arithmetic had always been her weak point. "Just so," said Mr.
The mustangers were well known in this district and could prove their reason for being where they were found. And Kitchell had raided one of their corrals last season, so they had no possible tie with the elusive outlaw. Probably by now the Trinfans had returned to their hunt for the Pinto.
His muscles were relaxed in a grin, and I had another flash of elusive recollection of his face. But ere I could fix it, he stopped the horse-play. "Come, brethren," he said, "let us serve the Lord with gladness," and he trolled forth a jocund hymn.
Who has been with me in my several meetings with the man who penned that message I leave to adjudge if it be the letter of a madman bent upon self-destruction by strange means, or the gibe of a preternaturally clever scientist and the most elusive being ever born of the land of mystery China. For the present, I can aid you no more in the forming of your verdict.
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