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He searched the memories of the old men and women for other things than abominations, and gave the Arioi a good name for possession of many excellent qualities and for a rare development of histrionic ability.
She thought a little, till at last her spirit overcame her fear. "At the least I will see with mine own eyes," she said. "It is well," I answered. Then, stones having been piled up by me and the eunuch who was with us on a certain spot at the base of the pyramid, to somewhat more than the height of a man, I climbed on them and searched for the secret mark, no larger than a leaf.
The boats were sent out in hopes of getting water; but they searched in vain for it, and only met with great quantities of cocoanuts. The fish, which abounded on the coasts, and the birds, which were also very numerous, suffered themselves to be caught by hand.
I searched the pages eagerly and found the address, together with notes of certain payments. Madame, I saw, lived in a flat in Harrington Gardens, South Kensington. There and then I received instructions to leave next day by the through express to Ostend, seek the lady, and then watch the movements of the Russian, who was busily forming the syndicate for the new Monte Carlo.
"I am very sorry!" said the chief, who thought it wiser not to contradict her. He would have searched his sporan for a coin to make up to her for the supposed loss of her peats; but he knew well enough there was not a coin in it.
We threw out as quietly as we could a couple of hundred rough lumps about the size of those fragments of granite used for macadamising a modern road. "Tom," I said, after trying about with my spade, "there's something more here. I believe those pieces were put in to deceive whoever searched." "Let me clear out a little more of the sand, Mas'r Harry."
Jeannette bandaged his head, the rain spattering through the broken log house upon them both. "Who brought you here?" inquired Jacques. "There was nobody in these houses last night, for I searched them myself." "I hid here before daybreak," she answered briefly. "But if you knew the English were coming, why did you not give the alarm?" "I was their prisoner." "And where will you go now?"
A man shifted his position in the stockade, raised to peer from a hole breast high, and she saw him pitch down on the ground before the sound of the shot reached her. One of her men had noted the darkening of the crack and had searched him out with a rifle shot. Three shots answered it from the main cabin. The thud of hoofs on the trail below drew her eyes that way.
The searchlights then came into play. Sweeping the heavens from east to west, from north to south, they searched the firmament, but could not find the Zeppelin. Was it really there, or was the whole thing due to excited Roumanian nerves? "Suddenly a sound was heard: the noise of the propeller overhead. It sounded so near in the clear, starry night, we felt we must be able to see it.
Then Dick told Madam and the captain the whole story of Amy's life and home, how she had gone away because of her father's mistake, how Whitley had deceived her, and how they had searched for her in vain. Then as he told of the mother's broken health, and the sorrowing friends, though he made no mention of himself, they could not but read as he spoke of others, something of his own trouble.
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