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"And is there anything very alarming about that?" he questioned, with a quiet smile. "No; but I thought " "You thought that I could not have very much of this world's goods since I had come here to work a mine," Sir William said, completing her sentence. "But, darling, all that was only a ruse; I have been working more for my wife than for gold." "Will!"
I refused, and said some wild, bitter things. He then roughly pushed me back, and I fell overboard." The mystery of Paul Lanier's conduct greatly puzzled all. However, it was evident that he had not intended the consequence of his rash act. This was the result of brutal passion at her resistance to some other design. What could he have intended in his deceitful ruse?
"I believe, gentlemen," Prince Rupert said to his officers, "that this is but a ruse on the part of Louis to aid his Dutch allies by getting part of our fleet out of the way. Still, I have nothing to do but to obey orders, though I fear it is but a fool's errand on which we are sent." The wind was from the north-east, and was blowing a fresh gale. The Prince prepared to put to sea.
It seemed, all at once, as if the ground sank beneath him, and he heard nothing save the cry of the masses, silent so long, but now demanding justice, growling and threatening to take their share, which was withheld from them by force and ruse.
Our only hope lies in traveling northward as rapidly as we may, of coming to the camp of the raiders before the knowledge of Achmet Zek's death reaches those who were left there, and of obtaining, through some ruse, an escort toward the north.
"Some folks who will give us all the help we want," said Snap, quick to understand the ruse his chum was playing. "How many people are up here?" asked the rich lumber dealer, nervously. "Oh, seven or eight," answered Whopper, but did not add that he was counting in Felps's own party. Behind a thick mass of brushwood rested the Snapper, as the boys' craft had been christened.
"I believe he's struck it rich, an' most likely he has put Samson out of the way." "But he asked about him, though," one of the men replied. "Oh, that was just a ruse, an' nothing more. He wanted to find out if we suspect anything. I say, Shorty, bring us something," he ordered. "This is my treat." When the liquor had been brought, the men drank and talked in low voices.
"No, I haven't," I retorted; "for I want you a few thousand miles away from here." He chuckled, and thereafter spoke no more. He did not stir as I passed by him and went down into the cabin. I lifted the trap in the floor, but for some moments gazed dubiously into the darkness of the lazarette beneath. I hesitated to descend. What if his lying down were a ruse?
And a little acid will help you to think differently about us...." His vibrations died away. The pull of gravity in the room was normal. I was alone in the dim silence, with the bodies of Carter and Johnson huddled on the grid. I bent to examine them. Both were dead. My isolation was not ruse this time. The outlaws made no further attack. Half an hour passed.
"It was Reuben who told me," answered Gertrude, with a little blush which she tried to conceal by turning her face towards the window. But her ruse was in vain. Madam's hawk eye had caught the rising colour, and her brow contracted sharply. "Reuben! what Reuben? Have I not told you a hundred times that I would have none of that sort of talk any more?
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