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At sight of it, at vision of that messy crown of hair and of those gray, penetrant, questioning eyes, the man's spent breath quickened. He turned his own eyes quickly away, lest she should read his thought, and began speaking of what? He hardly knew. Anything, till he could master himself.
She paid absolutely no attention to the other two in the room, but went straight to the desk, and there halted, gazing with her softly penetrant eyes of deepest violet into the face of the Inspector. Under that intent scrutiny, Burke felt a challenge, set himself to match craft with craft.
Hanlon found Abrams in the library, and slipped into the seat next to him. Opening a magazine and holding it fairly high before his face while apparently reading it, Hanlon started talking in low but penetrant tones. "Don't look up, Mr. Abrams, but listen to me. You may or may not know it, but there's a plot against your life.
But half way to the pony he stopped. Voices, approaching by way of the bed of Dry Creek, drifted to him. "He must 'a' turned and gone back. Mebbe he guessed we was there." And a voice that Bannister knew, one that had a strangely penetrant, cruel ring of power through the drawl, made answer: "Judd said before he fainted he was sure the man was Ned Bannister.
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