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"Quite true," agreed Lennon, and he thrust the revolver into his pocket. "Now, with regard to the lode, our next step will be " "What'd you say you was to git from your copper company?" broke in Slade, suddenly straight-eyed and cordial. "Twenty thousand bonus for relocating the lode, and " "You can draw on 'em for it?" "For half, at least.
It must have been a bitter pill for Scottie to swallow, but he was not particularly formidable with his weapons, compared with straight-eyed Jeff Rankin, and he answered: "Maybe there's some I jolly along a bit, but, when I talk to old Jeff Rankin, I talk straight. Look at me now, Jeff. Do I look as if I was joking with you?" "I ain't any hand at readin' minds," grumbled Jeff.
Bill Gregg found himself looking not into the savage face of such a gunfighter as he had been led to expect, but a handsome fellow, several years younger than he, a high-headed, straight-eyed, buoyant type. In his seat in the saddle, in the poise of his head and the play of his hand on the reins Bill Gregg recognized a boundless nervous force. There was nothing ponderous about Ronicky Doone.
A' might just as well have been my head, if a wave hadn't lifted the muzzle when that straight-eyed chap let fire. Bear a hand, boys, and cut away the wreck. He hathn't got never another shot to send. He hath saved us trouble o' shortening that there canvas. We don't need too much way on her."
What do you care?" the boy asked curiously. "If he takes you on board, he's got to put you across." Garth looked at Charley estimatingly. But there could be no doubt of the boy's straight-eyed, whole-souled devotion to Natalie; and he quickly made up his mind. He told him briefly what had occurred on the way in. Charley whistled in astonishment. "So that's the kind Nick Grylls is!" he exclaimed.
Newspaper offices are among the most conservative organisations in the world; but surely after twenty-five years some changes might be permitted to creep in; some original convention of expression or assembly might be developed. I drew up to this idea cautiously among a knot of fellow-craftsmen. 'You mean, said one straight-eyed youth, 'that we are a back-number copying back-numbers?
Two American soldiers saluted the colonel gravely lean, tanned, straight-eyed young fellows. For the first time I noticed that the Americans were wearing puttees like our men, instead of the canvas gaiters which they sported when first in France. Their tin hats and box-respirators have always been the same make as ours. The colonel stopped to look at his map.
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