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The words were low and laughing and warm with a sweet friendliness, but they crashed through the room like the breath of a swarm of furies. Andrew Sevier's face went white and drawn on the instant, and every muscle in his body stiffened to a tense rigidity. His dark eyes narrowed themselves to slits and glowed like the coals.
"And you will go back to that man who loves himself better than he loves you?" "That's not true!" she flashed at him. "He is sending for me, not to get me back to him, but to get me back to safety." "What sort of safety?" Henri demanded in an ominous tone. "Is he afraid of me?" "He doesn't know anything about you." "You have never told him? Why?" His eyes narrowed.
Hanson encircled her arms and body in his powerful grip and bore her slowly backward toward the pile of blankets at the far end of the tent. His face was bent close to hers. His eyes were narrowed to two slits of heat and passion and desire.
At about the time when Rexhill was freeing Moran from his bonds, Wade and Santry, with rifles slung across their backs were tramping the banks of Piah Creek. In the rocky canyon, which they finally reached, the placid little stream narrowed into a roaring torrent, which rushed between the steep banks and the huge, water-worn bowlders, with fury uncontrolled.
He read with amazed and offended eyes that he was temporarily in temper quarantine. It soon became apparent that life without Brian was maintaining even more than its usual average of petty complication. The problem of small change Kenny found a torment. There Brian had been a jewel. It simply narrowed down to this, he told Garry: No matter how he started, he never had any.
The other gave up the luxurious rooms she occupied in a hotel, took a lodging-house, which she was able largely to manage herself, made it a delightful home for every inmate, and kept herself usefully busy and happy. Each of these women had an only sister entirely devoted to her. One of them narrowed and the other broadened her sister's life.
It was not much of a clue, but the smallest clue is better than nothing. To find out that the sender of the League letters had fair hair narrowed the search down a little. It cleared the more raven-locked members of the school, at any rate. Besides, by combining his information with Milton's, the search might be still further narrowed down.
There the trail, he knew, narrowed to a single sled-width. Leaning out ahead, he caught the haul-rope and drew his leaping sled up to the wheel-dog. He caught the animal by the hind legs and threw it. With a snarl of rage it tried to slash him with its fangs, but was dragged on by the rest of the team.
The man dived through the door. "And now you, Jovannic!" "At your orders, Herr Hauptmann?" Jovannic looked up in astonishment. The other's face was blazing at him across the table. "Who," Captain Hahn seemed to have a difficulty in compressing his feelings into words, "who ordered you to untie that prisoner?" "No one," replied Jovannic. His gaze at the convulsed face opposite him narrowed.
His eyes narrowed until they became mere slits, and his hands clenched hard as he drew himself to his full height. "If you want the message I carry, come and take it," he challenged. "That is the only way you can get it." "Don't be a fool," another of the men warned. "You might as well hand over that message first as last. It will save you a lot of trouble.
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