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"Alas! alas! that my day should be in such an age," said Lord Ponsonby. "I wonder who it is darling Sir Lionel wishes to marry," said another. At this remembering rivalry got on the war path, as each looked critically at the other. "Trevalyon would be a decent fellow enough if you did not all kneel to him," growled a county magnate.
The trailer-truck with the Wild Life Control markings on it rumbled past. It growled and roared. The noise seemed thunderous. Its wheels splashed as they went through a puddle close by the gate. It went away into the distance. Jill took a deep breath of relief. Lockley made a warning gesture. He listened. The noise went on steadily for what he guessed to be a mile or more. Then they heard it stop.
Saying these words the chief spun round to seize the truth, which is not a beautiful shape living in a well, but a shy bird best caught by stratagem. This was the last move of the colonel's diplomacy. He saw the truth shining unmistakably in the gesture of Lieut. D'Hubert raising his weak arms and his eyes to heaven in supreme protest. "Not a woman affair eh?" growled the colonel, staring hard.
And the end of it was that I started gossip, and you told me to keep away. That was pretty hard lines. It made me angry. And then I was jealous of Dunne." "He is going to marry Miss Burnaby." "Lucky devil!" growled Farwell dejectedly. "Things run smooth for him. I'll bet he doesn't think half as much of her as I do of you." Sheila smiled for the first time. "You wouldn't tell her that."
Suppose the doctors were wrong and Thornton Lyne was murdered at an earlier hour? Suppose Odette Rider was in reality a cold-blooded . He growled away the thought. He heard the church clock strike the hour of two and waited impatiently for the quarter to chime he had heard every quarter since he had retired to bed. But he did not hear that quarter.
There was silence among them, while the battle raging in the distance growled more furiously than ever, and Maurice had to set tight his teeth to keep himself from speaking his mind aloud. Why did they not hasten whither the guns were calling them, without such waste of words?
Maybe, had we not been speeding to a fight the like of which I had never so much as heard of, I should have thought of home and the fears of those who would hear that I was gone; but as things were, how could I think of aught but what was on hand? We were nearing the vessel fast, and seeing that she did not turn her head and fly, old Thrond growled that there was some fight in her.
After these achievements the wind plunged down into the heather, ran along the deep ditches, and took a substantial grip of the mail-coach, which it met half a mile from the town. 'He is always in a devil of a hurry to get to Krarup Kro! growled Anders, the postboy, cracking his whip over the perspiring horses.
"A golf impostor?" smiled Carter. "I never heard of one. We can get a line on him before he has played five holes." "I don't mean that," growled LaHume. "What I mean is that we don't know anything about this fellow. He comes with no recommendations, and all that sort of thing."
"Oh, there won't be any row," he growled. "Well, if there is," I repeated, "you can count me in." "That's all right," he said. At that moment we reached the top of the incline, and I looked down into the hollow below.
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