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It consisted of a broad metal plate, strapped across his shirt, and affixed to this plate was a flat-springed arrangement for firing, simultaneously, the contents of a revolver cylinder. To show how it worked, Jerome removed the five cartridges and then faced me. "Tell me to throw up my hands," directed he. I did so; his palms flew into the air; and with a steely snap the mechanism was released.
Buck's eyes wandered over the faces peering at him out of the murky shadows. The squalor of the hut was painful, and, with the knowledge that help was at hand, the sight struck him even more forcibly. "Quit work?" he asked a moment later, in his abrupt fashion. Somebody laughed. Buck looked round for an answer. And again his eyes caught the steely, ironical gleam in the man Beasley's.
Once he quartered himself like this on an old schoolmate of his, named Brown, who had got married and steady and settled down. Brown tried all ways to get rid of Steelman, but he couldn't do it. One day Brown said to Steelman: "Look here, Steely, old man, I'm very sorry, but I'm afraid we won't be able to accommodate you any longer to make you comfortable, I mean.
"It is not always quite wise to express our thoughts," he rejoined, with deliberate cynicism. "I have ventured to point that out to you before." Again he baffled her. She looked at him doubtfully. He was standing up beside her on the point of departure. He returned her gaze with his steely eyes almost as though he challenged her to penetrate to the citadel they guarded.
And now the greener was speaking, and the tone of his voice was gentle in its velvety softness. His lips smiled, and his gray eyes, narrowed to slits, shone cold with a terrible, steely coldness, so that men looked once, and shuddered as they looked. "And, now, Moncrossen," he was saying, "we will fight. It is a long score that you and I have to settle.
The old doctor found him alone in the dreary room, coming in with the frosty breath of the eager street about him. A grim, chilling sight enough, as solitary and impenetrable as the Sphinx. He did not like such faces in this genial and gracious time, so hurried over his examination. The eye was cool, the pulse steady, the man's body, battered though it was, strong in its steely composure.
If at any time I hamper you, or can not keep the pace, then leave me to shift for myself; but don't make me go until I weaken. Let me stay." Fire and fearlessness spoke in Joe's every word, and his gray eyes contracted with their peculiar steely flash. Plain it was that, while he might fail to keep pace with Wetzel, he did not fear this dangerous country, and, if it must be, would face it alone.
The light in Joe's eyes was the old steely flash, the indomitable spirit while there was life there was hope. "Let the Shawnee chief paint his prisoner black," commanded Wingenund. When the missionary left the lodge with the runner, Whispering Winds had smiled, for she had saved him whom she loved to hear speak; but the dread command that followed paled her cheek. Black paint meant hideous death.
Or better still, here his fancy bolted completely, if he could only slip with her aboard a transport and make a thirty days' voyage through the South Seas! It was at this transcendent stage of his reveries that a steely voice at his elbow observed: "You seem to be finding a great deal to interest you in that smokestack, young man!" Quin descended from his height with brisk embarrassment.
He was so white when he rejoined Mary in the veranda that she sprang up with an involuntary cry and would have had him lie down, where she had been sitting. But the fine steely ring in his voice stopped her short. "Have you any idea," he asked, "where she has gone or what she has gone to do? She came down," he went on without waiting for her answer, "and looked for me. Waited for me.
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