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You don't deceive me at all, Mr. West. I know as well as you do better that the man who did the swindling last night was not you. And I'm sick I'm downright sick whenever I think of it!" West's expression changed slightly as he looked at her. He seemed to regard her as a doctor regards the patient for whom he contemplates a change of treatment. "See here," he abruptly said.

Bertie spoke with decision. "You had better go to bed yourself." She made a face at him. "I shall do nothing of the sort. I shall sit up and do the Clothing Club accounts." Bertie frowned abruptly. "Not to-night, Dot." "Yes, to-night. They have got to be done, and I can think better at night." "You are not to do them to-night," Bertie said, with determination.

Even if foreign dreams of empire in Mexico had vanished so abruptly, it could hardly be expected that a land torn for many years by convulsions could become suddenly tranquil.

Her weeping grew more violent. He saw the people at the next table turn and stare, heard the men laughing harshly. For the spectacle was evidently not an uncommon one here. She pushed away her unfinished glass, gathered up her velvet bag and rose abruptly. "I guess I ain't hungry after all," she said, and started toward the door.

The thoughtful serious state of mind in which Mary found herself had been induced in her by a conversation had with her father on the evening before. Without any preliminary talk and quite suddenly and abruptly he had told her that he was a victim of heart disease and might die at any moment.

Belgium will never be what Charlemagne made it, the nucleus of a great Empire; but, unless it remains a free factor in the history of Europe, as it was for the first time under the great emperor, conflicts between the two rivals, abruptly brought together along the same frontier, become inevitable.

"You'd better not write; he may want to meet you." With distaste she perceived that although he had never done anything useful for her, he was still capable of being jealous of her, and she abruptly rose to go. But she delayed for a moment to satisfy a curiosity that had vexed her for years. "Tell me," she asked. "How did you get rid of Peacey? Was it money?" He shrugged his shoulders.

The conductor glanced sharply at Pete as he passed, then turned abruptly, and stepped to a man who stood talking to the clerk at the desk. "I jest saw one of 'em," said the conductor. "I never forget a face. He was rigged out in town-clothes but it was him all right." "You sure, Len?" "Pretty darned sure." "Well, we can find out. You set down over there in the window and be reading a paper.

If you and she are taken away, what have I left in life? I was a coward, sir, not to tell you. You must have guessed it. And yet, God help me, I can't stand by and see the nation go to pieces. Your nation as well as mine, Colonel. Your fathers fought that we Americans might inherit the earth " He stopped abruptly.

Our guide, on being asked, said he had seen other cairns of stones besides these on the hill-top, but could not recollect where. He was very uneasy when questioned; and at last said he had business to attend to, and left us abruptly. In his absence we examined all around for traces of graves. Between the plain and the river was a thicket of low trees and undergrowth.