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Mostyn sprang up in bed, drew on a dressing-gown, and took from the small safe at his bed-head the Museum keys and a loaded revolver. A somewhat dishevelled figure, pale and wild-eyed, he made his way through the private door and into the ghostly precincts of the Museum. He did not hesitate, but ascended the stairs and unlocked the door of the Assyrian gallery.
If they won't pay all, strike 'em for half." He hung up without saying good-bye. "Well, that's out of the way," he declared with satisfaction. "Just closed for a cargo of zinc ore from Australia to San Francisco ex our schooner Mindoro. Matt Peasley's been hunting wild-eyed for a cargo for her scouring the market, Gus and nothing doing!
"Some wan back of me sez thot's Durade. Wal, it was! An' sudden he seen who the gurl wuz watchin' Lee. "Thot Durade turned green an' wild-eyed an' stiff. But thot couldn't hould a candle to Lee. Shure he turned into a fiend. He bit out a Spanish name, nothin' loike Durade. "An' loike a hissin' snake Durade sez, 'Allison Lee!
Travellers have told queer, queer stories about bands of these wild-eyed Koordish women waylaying and capturing them on the roads through Koordistan, and subjecting them to barbarous treatment.
But such mishaps were only part of the adventure, as inevitable as storms in winter and wounds in battle. These dreams were in the days before her father's Rationalism kept her chained indoors: his evangelism sowed seeds that took root and flowered into a desire that she might be a wild-eyed, flame-tongued John the Baptist, making straight the way of the Lord.
Frank looked up from his dessert quite wild-eyed. It was so pat! "His grandfather sent it to him. He has a lot more than that." "What are you talking about?" demanded Frank, coming wholly out of his trance and looking from one to the other. "Who has six hundred dollars, and whose grandfather sent it to him?" "Lee's," said Bill. "I don't believe it!" "It is true," Bill affirmed.
Aberdeen Boy, a recent importation, and one of the noblest of those who were to refine the wild-eyed longhorns of Texas, was having no more trouble with acclimation than his predecessors; he manifested his illness simply by lying down and looking more innocent than usual, and heaving big sighs which wrung Virginia's heart.
As if this were not excitement enough for a lifetime, right on top of all that night's adventures came another shock. When the population of Elmbrook returned, after the rescue of the doctor, Sawed-Off Wilmott rushed through the village, wild-eyed, with the astounding news that Ella Anne Long had disappeared with the ne'er-do-weel from Glenoro!
The three men stared at each other, wild-eyed. "This is dreadful," said Morris, "dreadful. I do not understand one word that is addressed to me." "I give you my word of honour, no more do I," said Michael. "And in God's name, why whiskers?" cried Morris, pointing in a ghastly manner at his cousin. "Does my brain reel? How whiskers?" "O, that's a matter of detail," said Michael.
There was a tableau: the aged noble stretched out beside his rapier, D'Hérouville leaning against the wall and wild-eyed . . . and a black-robed figure standing in the doorway. "Have you killed him?" asked the black-robed figure, stepping into the room. D'Hérouville gazed at him, incapable of speaking. "Have you killed him, I say?" repeated Brother Jacques.
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