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The Caracunan started and shot a glance at his interlocutor that said, as plainly as words, "How much do you know that you are not telling?" had the latter not been too intent upon his own theory to interpret it. "Ah, that," said Raimonda, after a pause, "that is another question. If it were my sister, or any one dear to me but" he shrugged "views on that matter differ."
"Some high-minded Caracunan patriot, I suppose." "Why?" "Well, I suspect that it was a mistake. From a distance and inside a window, she might easily have been taken for some one else." Carroll's mind reverted to his companion's ready revolver. "Yourself, for instance?" he suggested. "Why, yes." "Who was she?" There was left in the Southerner's manner no trace of the cross- examiner.
Had our supposititious watcher possessed an intimate and contemptuous knowledge of Caracuna officialdom, he would have surmised that lavish sums of money had been employed to stir the port and customs officials to such untimely activity. But not money or any other agency is potent to stir Caracunan officialdom to undue speed.
Frankness and plain-speaking being, as you doubtless know, the distinguishing mark of the Caracunan statesman." The sarcasm was not lost upon Mr. Brewster, but it failed to shake his skepticism. "There are some business matters that require that I should go to the office of the Ferro carril del Norte this afternoon," he said. "I beg that you do nothing of the sort," cried Sherwen sharply.
How, she wondered, had that dry and strange hermit of the wilds known the news before the city learned it? With her wonder came annoyance over her lost wager. The beetle man, she judged, would be coolly superior about it. So she delivered herself of sundry stinging criticisms regarding the conduct of the Caracunan Administration in having stupidly involved itself in a blockade.
But I think it was not that with Basurdo. I think it was underground, not undersea." He brushed his neck with his finger tips. "Is it dangerous for foreigners?" asked Carroll quickly. "For every one," answered Sherwen; adding significantly: "But the Caracunan Government does not approve of loose fostering of rumors." Carroll rose and came over to the Brewsters. "May I bring Mr.
To their open and obvious delight, exhibited jauntily by the Englishman, with awkward and admiring respectfulness by the ball- player, and with graceful ease by the handsome Caracunan, the rest were invited to join the party. "Don't let them scare you about plague, Miss Brewster," said Cluff, as they found their chairs. "Foreigners don't get it much." "Oh, I'm not afraid!
"When my brother fell and broke his arm on the mountain, this gentleman found him, took care of him, and brought him in on muleback." "Lives up there somewhere, doesn't he, Mr. Raimonda?" asked the big man. "In the quinta of a deserted plantation," replied the Caracunan. "Wot's he do?" asked the Englishman. "Ah, THAT one does not know, unless Senor Sherwen can tell us."
"No," grunted that toiler, with the characteristic discourtesy of the Caracunan lower class, and jerked his head backward toward his fare. "I beg your pardon," said the Unspeakable Perk eagerly, in Spanish, turning to the dim recess of the victoria. "Might I Oh, it's you!" He seized Carroll by the arm. "I want your cab." "Indeed!" said Carroll. "Well, you're cool enough about it."
Upon a day not designated as a Caracunan national holiday, she raised the flag of an alien nation and fixed it, and the gilded youth of Caracuna in the street below cheered, not the flag, which would have been unpatriotic, but the flag-raiser, which was but gallant, until they were hoarse and parched of throat.
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