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Dundee demanded tensely. For Friday she had been driven to making her last will and testament.... "She was home all day, but about half past four Mr. Drake came," Lydia said slowly, as if she too were wondering. "She was awfully restless, couldn't set still or eat. I ought to have suspicioned something, but she was often like that lately. Mr. Drake stayed about an hour.
"She loves him," I said; and then, why I did not know, but I added, pointing to Drake: "and he loves her." There was a tiny, astonished sob from Ruth. Again Norhala brooded over her. Then with a little despairing shake of her head, she paced over and faced the great Disk. Tensely we waited.
He had been eyeing alternately the Master and Wefers; tensely awaiting some overt act or some word of permission which should warrant him in launching himself on the intruder. And now, it seemed, the whole thing was a game; a game wherein he himself had been invited to play a merry and spectacular part. Joyously, he flew after the hurtling lump of steel and rubber.
Suddenly, the bell clanged and a tube rolled out of the computer shoot. Alan waited tensely while MacIntosh crossed the room again, drew out the contents of the tube, and scanned them. The fat man's face was broken by a smile. "You're in luck, starman. Your brother did register with us. Here's the 'stat of his papers." Alan looked at them.
The heavy cruiser Chicago hung motionless in space, thousands of miles distant from the warring fleets of space-ships so viciously attacking and so stubbornly defending the planetoid of the enemy. In the captain's sanctum Lyman Cleveland crouched tensely above his ultra-cameras, his sensitive fingers touching lightly their micrometric dials. His body was rigid, his face was set and drawn.
The Princess Maida " "You are the friend?" Georg whispered tensely. Elza was trembling and I put my arm about her. Wolfgar's face lightened with a brief smile; then went intensely serious. "Yes. A spy, trusted by Tarrano for years but my heart is with the Princess Maida. We must escape all of us now, or it will be too late." He stopped abruptly, and a look of consternation came to him.
She must be signalling." A thrill goes through the battleship. In a minute the big steel fighter may be lying on her side, stricken; or there may be the opportunity for a fair fight. The captain sends an officer below to the detector and changes the course of the ship. Every one awaits developments, tensely. The wireless operator enters the chart-house. I can't raise her.
He could spoor, fell trees, tell the character from the boot-sole, and fling the squaler. He did all these things well, but what he was really best at was flinging the squaler. Clarence, on this sultry August afternoon, was tensely occupied tracking the family cat across the dining-room carpet by its foot-prints. Glancing up for a moment, he caught sight of the other members of the family.
She watched its approach in a sort of fascination, for of late she had been upon the water enough to realize that the feat of which she was witness was not without its difficulties. As the sloop drew nearer she made out a bare-headed figure bent tensely at the wheel, and four others clinging to the yellow deck.
"That is one secret which Thorpe has kept from Jeanne who the other is the one who is paying to have you destroyed. Yes they will attack." Philip bent low over Pierre. "I have known of this plot for a long time, Pierre," he said, tensely. "I know that this Thorpe, who for some reason has passed as Lord Fitzhugh Lee, is but the agent of a more powerful force behind him.
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