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"Is she with him?" he asked Barker, and musingly listened while Barker told him.
They were silent a moment, motionless, locked in the secret seclusion of their own minds. Then they listened with absorption to Jean's brief story. "Wal, that lets us in," said his father. "I wish we had more time. Reckon I'd done better to listen to you boys an' have my men close at hand. Jacobs happened to ride over. That makes five of us besides the women."
But, although they listened with all ears, little more information was forthcoming, save that one Carey, Chief of the local police, was already busy. "He's telephoned all around," said Mike, "and told them to look out for the automobile. But, say, what chance has he got, eh? You can't stop every automobile that goes through and search it for jewelry!"
Dale listened to the conversation at the table without attempting to understand it. Somebody, as he gathered dully, was demanding an interview. But the interruption could make no difference. It was all over. "He said he wouldn't take 'No' for an answer." Then they all laughed; and Sir John said to the young man, "Very well. Ask him in."
The ladies looked up in surprise. The officers all of whom remembered the name in connection with what had been said by Messrs. Crane, Wilkins, and Gleason himself listened for his reply. Gleason was quick to note the silence and to divine its cause. "Give my compliments to the colonel, and say that I do not know. I have not seen or heard rather, I have not seen Mr.
Princess Elizabeth had done the same; and with suspended breath they both listened to the long-drawn and plaintive tones which softly floated in to them on the wings of the night. A smile of satisfaction flitted over their pale, sad faces, and a deep sigh escaped from their heavy hearts. "Thank God! he is saved," whispered Marie Antoinette.
But 'tis a fault to choose such subjects for the Stage, as will inforce us upon that rock: because we see that they are seldom listened to by the audience; and that it is, many times, the ruin of the play.
To this end he hastened down the town, ran along the eastern road over Durnover Moor, up the hill beyond, and thus onward in the moderate darkness of this spring night till he had reached a second and almost a third hill about three miles distant. In Yalbury Bottom, or Plain, at the foot of the hill, he listened.
"Well, you only got his word for it that this is where the shot, was fired. Maybe HE'S trying to cover something up." Murphy started, then glanced around. "Hell!" he exclaimed. "Where's that guy gone to, anyway?" Marsh, who had recently been close at their heels, was not now in the group. Murphy moved on tiptoe to the kitchen door and listened.
"Valentine watched it and listened to the pleasant sounds it made until he began to feel as if the River was something like a friend and companion. It soothed his grief and drove away his loneliness. Being alone, he began to speak his thoughts aloud. "'Oh! I wish I had a friend as strong and as powerful as the River! he cried. "'And why not? he heard a voice say.
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