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Cash flinched again, wavered, swallowed twice, and got up so abruptly that Lovin Child sat down again with a plunk. Cash muttered something in his throat and rushed out into the wind and the slow-falling tiny white flakes that presaged the storm. Until the door slammed shut Lovin Child looked after him, scowling, his eyes a blaze of resentment.
Just in front of him, Ziffak was facing toward the prow, directing the actions of the crew, though for a time little of that was required of him. Waggaman was at the prow, silent, glum, scowling. He did not speak for a long while, but, now and then, glanced at Ziffak. When he did so, he was pretty sure to find the black eyes of the head chieftain fixed upon him.
So he tore himself away and made up for lost time as he continued his journey on his own horse, for which Tom Murphy and three men had faced down the scowling population of Hoyt's Corners. The rest of his journey was without incident until, on his return home along another route, he rode into Rawhide and heard about the marshal, Mr. Townsend.
Bad Pete, now on foot, had turned into the camp from the farther side. Espying the boys he swaggered over toward them. "How do you do, sir?" nodded Tom. "Can't you two tenderfeet mind your own business?" snarled Pete, halting and scowling angrily at them. "Now, I come to think of it," admitted Tom, "it was meddlesome on my part to ask after your health. I beg your pardon."
The young man opposite him too, a sullen, scowling bravo, was staring boldly at Natalie. Garth stiffened himself to play a difficult part. "I feel like a rare, exotic bird," whispered Natalie in his ear. "You are," he returned grimly. "I think it would be better if you did not speak my name," he added. "I will not address you by yours. We must be prepared to parry questions."
There was that in the haste with which he came which seemed quite sufficiently menacing, so that I did not need the added evidence of brandishing spear and scowling face to warn me that I was in no safe position, but whither to flee was indeed a momentous question. The speed of the fellow seemed to preclude the possibility of escaping him upon the open beach.
As I crossed the deck, up the poop ladder comes Adam himself, his red seaman's bonnet tight-drawn about his ears and a perspective-glass under his arm. "'Tis as I thought, Martin," says he, pinching his chin and scowling away to leeward, "she changed course as we did." "Nay but, Adam, how should she know we changed and the night so black?" "Very easily, shipmate, by means of a light "
Maitland shook his head, scowling over the butler's burly shoulders at the rapidly augmenting concourse of servants in the hallway lackeys, grooms, maids, cooks, and what-not; a background of pale, scared faces to the tableau in the library. "This won't do," considered Maitland. "Get back, all of you!" he ordered sternly, indicating the group with a dominant and inflexible forefinger.
Now do sit down and make yourself uncomfortable. You have made me uncomfortable enough. Any one might think you a country parson." But Verelst, scowling at the dial which the legs of the nymph upheld, removed his glasses. "I am going." He moved to the door, stopped, half turned, motioned again. "Tell Margaret I would rather see her in her coffin." Angrily she started.
And quietly the clerk returned to his table of figures. But later he intended to write a letter, unsigned, to his serene highness. Carmichael, scowling, undertook to answer his mail, but not with any remarkable brilliancy or coherency. And in this condition of mind Grumbach found him; Grumbach, accompanied by the old clock-mender from across the way, and a Gipsy Carmichael had never seen before.
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