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It worked out just right and nothing to carry." "One of the mainest matters with the widely-known world," said Pringle wearily, "is that people won't play their hunches. They haven't spunk enough to believe what they know.
She flushed and her eyes fell before his. "No," she said, with a deep sigh. "I do not think he cares. He seems quite indifferent. All the time Sir Stephen and I have been working " "Have you been working?" said Howard, raising his eyebrows. She laughed a little wearily. "Indeed, yes. I have been what do you men call it? log-rolling for weeks.
It was nearing the middle of June, and it was getting to be a very hot June at that. For two days the trail-herd had toiled wearily over the hills and across the coulees between the Missouri and Milk River. Then the sky threatened for a day, and after that they plodded in the rain.
"But are they exposed to any more now than they were before?" he remarked wearily. "Why not let 'em alone, dear lady, let 'em alone? They deserve it." At length the ladies rose, and with a sigh of relief Vane sat down next a lawyer whom he knew well. "You're looking pretty rotten, Derek," he said, looking at Vane critically. "I've been dining next a woman with a mission," he answered.
"For one thing I think we should not be going to the Springs to-morrow in a private car, or buying the Jackson house or any other. Now put it all out of your head and have a good rest." He kissed her again, and she murmured wearily: "I'm so useless, they should kill things like me! How can you love me?"
"Then why did they shoot that poor devil of an Italian? And why the abduction?" "Oh, I don't know, Saunders." Mark spoke wearily. "Whoever she is, she can't be in two places at one time, can she?" "For heaven's sake, Saunders!" Mark's look was wild, his weariness gone. "What are you driving at? You'll have my brain reeling, too. What is it now?" "I thought I'd get you," coolly retorted Saunders.
"I am entirely in your hands," David said, wearily. "So far as I am capable of thinking out anything, it seems to me that we have to find the woman." "Cherchez la femme is a fairly sound premise in a case like this, but when we have found the woman we shall have to find the man who is at the bottom of the plot.
The Boundary Commission camp is stationed over two hundred miles from Herat; eight days roll wearily by and my movements are still carefully confined to the little garden, and my person attended by guards day and night. Every day I amuse myself with giving raisins to the robber ants, for the sake of seeing the ever-watchful bul-buls pounce upon them and rob them.
She had been made vaguely uneasy by his repressed manner, and by the fact that her kiss of greeting had been almost put aside by him, at the door, a few minutes earlier. Dear old Wolf; she had always loved him she would not have him unhappy for all the world! In answer he looked at her unsmilingly, wearily narrowing his eyes as if to concentrate his thoughts.
"Eyah!" muttered Slavin approvingly, "Th' 'nigh-hind' 'tis, note, bhoy! . . . 't'will serve good thrailin' that. Well, let's follow ut on!" Wearily his companions plodded on in his wake. The tracks, after following the draw for a short distance, suddenly wound up a steep, narrow path on the left side of the coulee.
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