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Updated: June 5, 2025
John Van Blarcom, who, at the sight of Miss Falconer and myself to all appearances cozily established for a tete-a-tete meal, stopped in his tracks and fastened on me the hard, appraising scrutiny that a policeman might turn on a hitherto respectable acquaintance discovered in converse with some notorious crook. For an instant he seemed disposed to buttonhole me and remonstrate.
Did you ever see such a get-up?" "It's marvellous. I thought she was a grand duchess." "That's what SHE thinks, if airs count for anything. I think she's a freak." "I suppose she was good-looking in her day," remarked his hostess's husband, appraising the grande dame with calculating eyes. "Do you think they're real?" asked Corky, and his hostess said she thought they were.
Then, while the captive paced the length and breadth of the narrow corridor back and across, to and fro, up and down, with the futile restlessness of a cat animal in a zoo, his feet clumping on the flagged flooring, and the watchful turnkey standing by, Uncle Tobe, having flattened his lean form in a niche behind the outer lattice, with an appraising eye would consider the shifting figure through a convenient cranny of the wattled metal strips.
With a quick motion he reached over and caught the girl's hand and drew it to him, covering it with both of his. Her eyes followed, came to rest on his face, cool, appraising, waiting. She was, in all that had counted in his life, crude, untutored, basic. Yet that calm look made his impulsive action seem unpardonable in the next second.
Then suddenly, at the moment the flow was highest, came the ebb. Her glance met Tisdale's clear, appraising look, and she stood silent and aloof. He looked away and, after a moment, seeing nothing further to do, started back to his train. She turned to take the empty cup, and as she closed the hamper the whistle of the westbound sounded through the gorge.
But in strict confidence I may say that work on a farm in the East and on a ranch in the West are twins you can't tell t'other from which." McHale appeared as they drove up, to relieve Casey of the horses. He was freshly shaven, and dressed with unusual care. Feng, in white jacket and apron, grinned from his quarters, appraising the "hiyu lich gal," with an eye to possible dollars.
Conscious of a certain feeling of stealth, he scrutinised the cards in the backs of the two chairs. The steward was collecting the discarded steamer-rugs farther down the deck, and the few passengers who occupied chairs, appeared to be snoozing, all of which he took in with his first appraising glance. "Miss Guile" and "Mrs. Gaston" were the names he read. "Americans," he mused.
Each lad carried an automatic at his hip swinging from a well-filled cartridge belt. In addition, Jack bore his repeating rifle in a leather scabbard on his saddle. Frank cast an appraising eye over himself and his comrades, and grinned with approval. Despite Jack's rebuke, he could not long keep silence. "Well, here we go, fellows," he said cheerfully, "just like the Three Musketeers.
Giving Mary Louise a momentary appraising glance, us the latter came in with her bundle, she snapped out: "This place open, you suppose?" Mary Louise hastily laid down the menus. "Yes," she said, "it is. Haven't you been waited on?" "No," said the old lady, stirring in her chair and making as if to rise, though wild horses could not have pulled her away from even the prospect of food.
"But you will consider my proposition of marriage?" Patty's honest gaze encountered the appraising glint in the coot grey eyes of the foppish scape-grace before her. She lowered her own eys quickly to hid a hunted look in their dark depths as she answered: "Sir, after the week of races, you shall have your answer."
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