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Marshall, with your permission I should like a word with Mr. Sturgis." "Mr. Who?" The gimlet-eyed sportsman came forward. "I am Denman Sturgis, at your service." "The deuce you are! What are you doing here?" "Mr. Sturgis," explained the Count, "graciously volunteered his services " "I know. But what's he doing here?" "I am waiting for Mr. George Lattaker, Mr. Marshall." "Eh?"
"These are the girls with whom Miss Lehar is staying," said Mr. Wing. He introduced the little man as Special Agent Sanders. Sahwah searched Mr. Wing's face pleadingly; he looked greatly puzzled, and very, very much disturbed. Then she looked at the gimlet-eyed man in the chair and saw his eyes rove from one to another of the girls questioningly. He began to speak without preliminary.
Startled, Stephen arose, and the others gained their feet. They set out across the settlement. They struck between some adobe houses, crossed some back yards, dodged under clothes-lines, and found themselves in a tiny graveyard. The woman brought them to a stop before a fresh mound of earth. Here she knelt in another outburst of tears, while the gimlet-eyed storekeeper explained.
'D n her gooseberry wig, said the corporal, when she was out of hearing, 'that gimlet-eyed jade mother adjutant, as we call her is a greater plague to the regiment than provost-marshal, sergeant-major, and old Hubble-de-Shuff, the colonel, into the bargain. The vivacity of this good lady, as it helped Edward out of this scrape, was like to have drawn him into one or two others.
Now, before you meet him, I want you to plainly understand the truth about this unfortunate affair; and that's why I telephoned your gimlet-eyed friend Neergard just now to let you come around here for half an hour." The boy nodded and, drawing a gold matchbox from his waistcoat pocket, lighted his cigarette.
And each one of this clan each slim, feline little man in blue serge, white-toothed, gimlet-eyed, smooth-tongued, brisk hated Mary Gowd. They hated her with the hate of an Italian for an outlander with the hate of an Italian for a woman who works with her brain with the hate of an Italian who sees another taking the bread out of his mouth.
"Alfred," he said, as that gimlet-eyed person answered the call, "make yourself clean and proper, Alfred, and replace your sabots with a pair of shoes. Then put on your best hat and take this letter to the big white house in the Rue de Dragon. There is no answer, mon petit Alfred."
In the scene, as he visualized it while riding, he was to advance gimlet-eyed, throw open his coat and confront her with the badge which made the guilty tremble. "Guess you know what I'm here for, Madam," he was to say significantly and harshly. But like most prearranged things in life it all went differently. When he was close enough to see well his jaw dropped automatically.
Beware, you base twelve ounces to the pound huckster, you gimlet-eyed seller of dog sausage, you sanded sugar idiot, you small potato three card monte sleight of hand rotton egg fiend, you villian that sells smoked sturgeon and dogfish for smoked halibut. The avenger is on your track."
But by a coincidence the doctor came, gimlet-eyed. "Hysteria...." he said to Sister in the bunk. "Is no one going to reassure Gayner?" I wondered. And no one did. Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself? Tetanus or the fear of tetanus a choice between two nightmares. Don't they admit that? So, forbidden to speak to him, I finished my splint till tea-time.
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