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I knew that sooner or later the time must come when our friends and enemies would be forced to declare themselves openly. When we reached Helium there must be an accounting, and if Tardos Mors had not returned I feared that the enmity of Zat Arras might weigh heavily against us, for he represented the government of Helium. To take sides against him were equivalent to treason.
"Zat man Senor Ramo I do not like zat he should see me." "Oh, you mustn't be so timid," declared Jack's sister. "He won't harm you." "No, but my father " "I think you are mistaken, Inez!" went on Cora. "At any rate, he has seen us he remembers us as from having come out on the same steamer with us," for Senor Ramo was now bowing, and is smile spread itself over his oily and expansive countenance.
Ees it zat?" A quick thought came to David. "Is it true that St. Pierre can not whip you, Bateese?" Bateese threw out his chest with a mighty intake of breath. Then he exploded: "No man on all T'ree River can w'ip Concombre Bateese." "And St. Pierre is a powerful man," mused David, letting his eyes travel slowly from the half-breed's moccasined feet to the top of his head.
"You shall zee, mad-am," said Mr. Gusher, extending his right hand and shrugging his shoulders, "how much ze demand for ze stock in zat grand enterprise is. Ze rush for him is so great ze price will be double very soon as you shall zee."
"Hooray! hooray! Out for the day!" sang, or rather yelled, Junkie, as he approached. "Ramble and roam Never go home!" added Archie, setting down his camera, and beginning to arrange it. "All of us must Eat till we bust! "Junkie teached me zat," said innocent Flo, with a look of grave surprise at the peals of laughter which her couplet drew from her brothers.
But, if Marian might not come down, Marian's father might stay up. As soon as his step sounded on the stairs the child's wailing ceased. "Zat zoo, daddy?" and the father felt, in the darkness, that two tiny arms were stretched out towards him in piteous welcome.
"You're giving us a heap of bother, Jules," he said, after the captured rascal had been safety stowed away in the tonneau of the car, with the chief beside him and Frank mounting to the front with the chauffeur. "But this winds you up. I understand your trial comes off tomorrow and you'll soon be snug in the pen." "Zat was ze knowledge zat urge me to break out," remarked the prisoner, blandly.
While he was speaking, one of my guards had removed the gag from my mouth, but I made no reply to Zat Arras: simply standing there in silence with level gaze fixed upon the Jed of Zodanga. And I doubt not that my expression was coloured by the contempt I felt for the man.
"Just so; but before zat, I mean," said the Pasha, with a keen glance. Lancey was a bold and an honest man. He would not condescend to prevaricate. "I'm wery sorry, your your Pashaship, but, to tell the plain truth, I never did 'ear of you before that." "Well, zat matters not'ing. I do go now to sup vid von friend, Hamed Pasha he is called. You go vid me. Go, get ready."
Then said Sharrkan to them, "Ye have fought through all this day and are aweary of fight; so it behoveth that you return to your places and sleep and not sit up." They accepted his counsel and then each went away to his own pavilion, and none remained with Sharrkan but a few servants and the old woman Zat al-Dawahi.
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