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"Somebody got the idea that one of the things Gess Fayle might have done is to arrange things so he wouldn't have to come back to the Hub for a while. If he could set up shop on some outworld far enough away, and tinker around with that plasmoid unit for a year or so until he knew all about it, he might do better for himself than by simply selling it to somebody."
There was, of course, some supporting evidence ... primarily the improbable appearance of their surroundings. The pencil-thin fire-spouter and the sleazy-looking "restrainer" had a sufficiently unfamiliar air to go with Maulbow's story; but as far as Gefty knew, either of them could have been manufactured in the Hub.
He gave me the story, details absolutely right and straight, all verified and everything. A York man, named Stevens, saw a newspaper account, for the first time this morning, of the murder. He and four other fellows were in a car that went up Hub Hill that night a little after eleven a few minutes after. Hear that?" "Yes. Go on." "Stevens was on the back seat.
The Piazza being built on the side of a hill or rather, as I believe science affirms, in the cup of a volcanic crater the vast pavement converges downwards in slanting radiations of stone, the spokes of a great wheel, to a point directly before the Palazzo, which may mark the hub, though it is nothing more ornamental than the mouth of a drain.
I'd get more square-pullin' out of a starved cat with ten kittens I would, by thunder! Now, men, all together! Huh! Huh! hub! The boatswain strained as if tugging a stubborn oar. In the interval of silence that followed all bent attentive ears, but no call came from the sea. The sleek oars dipped into the waves without a sound, and swung noiselessly in the worn rowlocks.
But there's that old dirt road, same as it's been for years, hub deep with mud in spring and winter, and so dusty in summer that there is no pleasure in driving over it, and a dead loss in both time and money every time a farmer drives over it." "It's surely the roughest road I've ever traveled on, John," laughed his friend, "and I've no doubt what you say is right.
He was just closing it after the carriage. "Oh!" thought I, "I may as well be sure as to whom I am galloping after." With this idea I inclined my horse's head a little, and drew up in front of Scipio. "Gollies! how young mass'r ride! Ef he don't do daat business jes up to de hub! Daat 'im do. Wugh!" Without taking notice of his complimentary speech, I inquired hastily if Mademoiselle was at home.
Stooping quickly, he grasped the hub of the off front wheel, and, just varying the trick which saved Miss Fenshawe in Buckingham Palace Road, threw the small vehicle over on its side. No doubt the patient animal in the shafts wondered what was happening, but the five struggling men in the interior were even more surprised when they were pitched violently into the road.
But he succeeded in proving that it was better than common; the weather was the matter. As the evening wore on, the members of the family gradually edged around the register, finally radiating from it as a centre like the spokes of a wheel, of which the collected feet of the group made the hub.
By Jove, it suits us Forsytes! Not that Forsytes lived there nobody lived there save royalty, rangers, and the deer but in Richmond Park Nature was allowed to go so far and no further, putting up a brave show of being natural, seeming to say: 'Look at my instincts they are almost passions, very nearly out of hand, but not quite, of course; the very hub of possession is to possess oneself. Yes!
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