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Blix fairly crowed with delight, clasping her hands upon her knees, and rocking to and fro where she sat upon the log. "Oh, Condy, and you thought of a LUNCH you said it was shoes and you remembered I loved stuffed olives, too; and a book to read. What is it 'The Seven Seas. No, I never WAS so happy. But the mouth organ what's that for?" "To play on. What did you think think it was a can-opener?"
"Robinson Crusoe," he said, "should be rewritten with a can-opener in the leading rôle." Mrs. Norton gave the talk a more practical turn by bringing up the topic of ptomaine poisoning. While the conversation drifted on, Mr. Magee pondered in silence the weird mesh in which he had become involved. What did it all mean? What brought these people to Baldpate Christmas week?
He stood before Taterleg glowing, his hat off, his short-cut hair glistening with pomatum, showing his teeth like a vicious horse. "You look like you was cut out with a can-opener," he sneered. "Maybe I was, and I've got rough edges on me," Taterleg returned, looking up at him with calculative eye. "Now, Mr.
Time was you'd see a stranger once in a month come along in an' buy our food. Time was they mostly had faces we knew by heart, and we knew their business, and where they came from. Tain't that way now. You couldn't open the boys' faces fer news of the forest with a can-opener. These darn guys are always about now. They come, an' feed the boys' drink, an' talk with 'em most all the time.
When she surprised herself at this, she would flush slightly, and again raise her book close to her shaded candle. Then, of course, her meals were a diversion. She became quite expert with the can-opener and the corkscrew. The empty cans, since there was no way to get them out of her suite, she stacked on the side of the bathroom opposite her provisions; and daily the stack grew higher.
Magnetic clamps cut in when they made contact. "Go down and let the bug-doctor in," Ihjel said. "I'll stay and monitor the board in case of trouble." "What do I have to do?" "Get into a suit and open the outer lock. Most of the drop sphere is made of inflatable metallic foil, so don't bother to look for the entrance. Just cut a hole in it with the oversize can-opener you'll find in the tool box.
After Dr. Morees gets aboard jettison the thing. Only get the radio and locator unit out first it gets used again." The tool did look like a giant can-opener. Brion carefully felt the resilient metal skin that covered the lock entrance, until he was sure there was nothing on the other side. Then he jabbed the point through and cut a ragged hole in the thin foil. Dr.
Anxiously and with drawn faces we watched until the last can was lifted from the box. A single thought was in our minds. When the end came the Captain stood up on the raft with wild eyes staring at the sky. "The can-opener!" he shrieked, "just Heaven, the can-opener." He fell prostrate. Meantime, with trembling hands, I opened the box of bottles.
"Making ready for a move?" he remarked as he looked round him. "Say, mister," he added, as his eyes fell upon the safe from which the curtain was now removed, "you don't tell me you keep your papers in that?" "Why not?" "Gosh, in a wide-open contraption like that! And they reckon you to be some spy. Why, a Yankee crook would be into that with a can-opener.
My little adventure into the occult world with Ombos had been rather exhilarating. I was glad when she told me to follow her out, through a long corridor into the kitchen, where she gave me a can-opener and a tin of sardines. "'Open those up and turn them into this little dish, please. And if you have any hygienic aversion to tinned things, please forget it.
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