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"Lads," he said, "I expected an easy night of good sleep for all three of us, but I'm thinking instead that we'd better take to the trail, and travel toward the place where that smoke was started." "It's what scouts would do," said Tayoga tersely. "And such we claim to be," said Robert.

Kreener glanced across the laboratory at the crouching figure of Tcheriapin, then, resting his hands upon Andrews's shoulders, he pushed him back in the chair and stared into his dull eyes. "Brace yourself, Colquhoun," he said tersely. Turning, he crossed to a small mahogany cabinet at the farther end of the room. Pulling out a glass tray he judicially selected a pair of dental forceps.

"How, in the name of Neptune, we can ever thank you sufficiently, I don't know." "I'm thinkin' we do owe you a lot," said Seth Cole tersely. The boy smiled in the dark as he shook their hands. He was not foolish to conceal from himself that he liked their praise, but he tried to disclaim credit.

Lanyard," she demanded almost sharply "what was the full wording of that message?" "If you must know " "I must!" He lifted a depreciative shoulder. "If you like, I'll read it to you or, rather, translate it from the thieves' argot Popinot complimented me by using." "Not necessary," she said tersely. "I'll take your word for it.... But you must tell me the truth."

"Honestly?" Tersely "Upon my soul." She rose somewhat hurriedly. "It's going to rain!" "Never mind. I have a conundrum. Why is love like a mushroom?" She wrinkled her brow. "Because it's easily crushed, I suppose, and you're never quite sure of it." "Wrong. Because it springs up in a night that is, in an hour," he answered, impressively.

"If I refuse to throw in my lot with you, you drown me; and if I accept your alternative, and should be unlucky enough to incur the suspicion that I am not acting honestly with you, what happens?" "We hang you," answered Wilde tersely. "I see," I said. "The choice you offer me appears to lie between the certainty of drowning and the risk of hanging.

Impulsively he threw his arm about her, holding her close. "My heart's dearest," he murmured fondly. "If there is anything anything I can do " Barbara straightened up and winked away the tears. "There is," she said tersely. "Investigate Jimmie's death." Kent gazed at her in astonishment. "Please explain," he suggested.

"Il ira loin!" she said tersely; "he flatters me discreetly, as they did when I was young, before the Republic." The silent, well-trained man handed round caviare and olives; Mary trifled with some grapes, her brow knitted a little, thoughtfully. Lady Garnett poured herself a glass of maraschino. When they were left alone, the girl remarked abruptly: "I am not sure whether I quite like Mr.

You'll discover it's a high one, all right." A moment later Cyril's tersely nervous "Good morning, Billy," came across the line. Billy drew in her breath and cast a hurriedly apprehensive glance over her shoulder to make sure Marie was not near.

The doctrine of Lucifer has been tersely described by Huysman as a kind of reversed Christianity a Catholicism