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"Whatever it was," he remarked, "it doesn't mean to repeat the act. But all the same, Bob, I've got a hunch we've found the place, and that Echo Cave lies far up yonder in that beetling cliff." "It's a fierce reach up there," remarked Bob, as he scanned the height. "How under the sun d'ye suppose that old professor could ever get up and down?
'Bragg Richard Bragg, repeated our friend, thoughtfully, while he scanned the man's features, and ran his sporting acquaintance through his mind's eye. 'Bragg, Bragg, repeated he, without hitting him off. 'I was huntsman, sir, to my Lord Reynard, sir, observed the stranger, with a touch of the hat to each 'sir. 'Thought p'r'aps you might have known his ludship, sir.
At first he heard only distant echoes of a short, muffled blow, irregularly repeated and seeming familiar to the ear. As he speculated upon what the sound might be, it grew gradually plainer and came seemingly nearer. He bent his eyes down the valley to the west and scanned the wagon-trail and the railroad track as far as he could in the dusk, but could see nothing.
In vain he scanned even the shop fronts for a friendly, homelike name. Whether the fault was his, whether he would better have served his own interests than those of his government, it now was too late to determine. In his own home, he was a stranger among strangers.
Finally, paused before going, and looked into the very wise little eyes that scanned him so carefully. "Is there anything you want, Daisy?" he said with a physician's familiarity. "No, sir, I thank you." "Mrs. Benoit takes good care of you?" "Very good." The manner of Daisy's speech was like her looks; childlike enough, and yet with a deliberate utterance unlike a child.
Tarzan and Otobu were both equally confident that the Xujans would not follow them beyond the gorge, but though they scanned every inch of the frowning cliffs upon either hand noon came and there was still no indication of any avenue of escape to right or left.
Roberts getting to all appearances better every day, and her husband's visits being paid with due regularity; one day, however, he failed to appear, and Mrs. Roberts seemed very uneasy. After tea she asked for the evening paper, and hastily scanned its columns, when her eye fell on some item of interest, and she became deadly pale.
He scanned with careful eyes the mountain side, and the deep, rocky caverns, and the dark gorge through which the little river rushed; but in the dim moonlight not a living being could he see, save a lazy salmon swimming in the quieter eddies of the stream.
For the informal "function" was enlivened by the most untoward incidents, due to the host's simplicity, spontaneous acts and words, and the homelike nature of the scene. Truly enough, when his chance came, the meeting was eccentric. Lincoln scanned him a moment, threw out his large hand, and said: "'You're a pretty tall fellow, aren't you?
Next dawn was hot, but there was a stimulation in it; not like the mountains, not like the sea. The air was full of a mellow enticement, like strange incense; or romance. Skag enquired of his servant if the day would be right for the cheetah hills. Bhanah turned to the southeast and scanned the horizon line. Then he held up his hand, palm toward the same direction, for a minute.
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