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It was lightly tossed off, but not without its evil implication; and I felt his eyes intently fixed upon me as he sat hunched up on the rail in his sodden sleeping-suit, like some huge, ill-omened bird of prey. To get rid of him, to obliterate the horrible fact that he still existed in the flesh, was the instinctive impulse of my staggered brain.
That 'something' must have manifested itself very abruptly, and demanded great haste either that, or he expected to return; for you will observe that, although he replaced his shaving tackle in the portmanteau, he did not put his sleeping-suit back with it. While I am poking about, do me the favour of looking in the bag, Mr. Narkom; and tell me if you find the collar and necktie there."
She must have locked it for some reason, and forgotten. Entering his dressing-room where the gas was also light and burning low, he went quickly to the other door. That too was locked. Then he noticed that the camp bed which he occasionally used was prepared, and his sleeping-suit laid out upon it. He put his hand up to his forehead, and brought it away wet.
He was extravagantly gorgeous too got up in a soiled sleeping-suit, bright green and deep orange vertical stripes, with a pair of ragged straw slippers on his bare feet, and somebody's cast-off pith hat, very dirty and two sizes too small for him, tied up with a manilla rope-yarn on the top of his big head.
You must be getting chilly in that wet sleeping-suit." "As a matter of fact I am, and I was wondering if you would not offer me something to drink." "You shall have a bottle to take along," I promised, with alacrity, but he demurred. "There is no sociability in that. And you seem very lonesome here stuck for two more hours at least. Come, Captain, fetch your bottle and we will share it together."
I saw the train start from the station at Taco, but he was not in it. 'Purvis is in a tight place, said Dunbar dryly. Ross, hearing voices in the drawing-room, wakened up, and now appeared with ruffled hair and still clad in his sleeping-suit. He suggested refreshments, and sat down to hear what Dunbar had to say. Peter's face had a queer set look upon it.
Pym in person, he would write him a short note giving some sort of explanation. So it happened the next morning, before anyone at the hill-side camp was dressed, a Black Watch boy presented a note to Mr. Pym's boy, and a little distance off on the road Major Carew waited on his horse for a message. And in his tent, still in a sleeping-suit, Mr.
But the door did not open, nor when he pulled it and turned the handle firmly. She must have locked it for some reason, and forgotten. Entering his dressing-room, where the gas was also lighted and burning low, he went quickly to the other door. That too was locked. Then he noticed that the camp bed which he occasionally used was prepared, and his sleeping-suit laid out upon it.
As I came at night so I shall go." "Impossible!" I murmured. "You can't." "Can't? . . . Not naked like a soul on the Day of Judgment. I shall freeze on to this sleeping-suit. The Last Day is not yet and you have understood thoroughly. Didn't you?" I felt suddenly ashamed of myself.
A short distance away there was a little open space of moonlight, and in its midst, at full career, he met the Irishman O'Hara, a gaunt and grotesque figure in his sleeping-suit, barefooted, with empty hands. Beyond him still, some one else ran, stumbling, and sobbed and uttered mad cries. Ste. Marie dropped his pistol to the ground and sprang upon the Irishman.
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