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"The number of the house," he said, "is 75." "I knew it," Gurdon said excitedly. "I felt pretty certain of it. The man who has disappeared lived at No. 75, and the place where we had our adventure, or rather, I had my adventure, is No. 74. Now, tell me, who was it who informed the police of the disappearance of Mr. Bates? Some servant, I suppose?"
Then the prosecuting attorney, shrugging his shoulders, grinned and said something to the marshal of the nobility, and whispers gradually buzzed again excitedly through the hall. Weariness enveloped the mother's body with a stifling faintness. Small drops of perspiration stood on her forehead.
"See, I shall win it all; in one grand coup I shall win it all. I shall win five years' pay in one moment." He swept all of the money forward on the red and threw himself over the table to see the wheel. "Wait, confound you!" whispered the Plunger, excitedly. "If you will risk it, risk it with some reason. You can't play all that money; they won't take it.
"Command me to shed the last drop of blood in my veins for you and I will do it without an instant's hesitation, but I cannot tell you that terrible tale of deceit, treachery and bloodshed!" He had arisen and was walking excitedly about the salon; his pallor had increased and he trembled in every limb.
"Why, I declare, my watch is gone!" he exclaimed in consternation. Just then Snap saw something on the ground and picked it up. It was a shred of a red bandanna handkerchief. "Boys, do you know what I think?" he said excitedly. "I think our visitor was that wild hermit who lived in the lonely cabin in the woods!" "You mean the one Whopper and I met?" asked Shep. "Yes."
The word "Australia" had wakened sad memories, which had to be controlled and driven back at once. "Let us go in; it is getting late for you," she said. And they passed through a French window into the unlighted drawing-room. The next evening Colonel Meredith returned, and, as Gwen had foretold, brought with him the expected visitor. The girl ran excitedly into Valmai's room.
I could see the man gesticulating and nodding his head excitedly as if making some assertion, while his face betrayed the utmost astonishment, mixed I think with some reverence. Goring came across the deck to us presently, still holding the stone in his hand.
"Baxter took my telegram much to heart ... was deeply aggrieved I afterward learned ... the dear boy ... he did 'kill Jarl' finally ... and absent-mindedly brought him to life again, later on in his book." And Harry Varden laughed excitedly like a boy, and he leaned sideways and smote his half-bent, sharp, skinny knee with his left hand.
But by that time Brent's expression had changed with astonishing suddenness. "I see! I see!" he said excitedly. "All right! Have you got space suits in your ship? We have them. So we'll go out and pelt the stars with garbage. I think we'd better get at it right now, too. In under two hours we'll be a fine target for more bombs, and it would be good to start ahead of time."
They're coming from Sixth Avenue." "People?" The fat man pressed his nose to the pane. "Soldiers, by God!" he said emphatically. "I had an idea they'd come back." Edith jumped to her feet, and running over joined Bartholomew at the window. "There's a lot of them!" she cried excitedly. "Come here, Henry!" Henry readjusted his shade, but kept his seat.
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