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Updated: May 12, 2025
There was a deafening uproar, hats were tossed ceilingward, and great wads of money were passed out by the "trusted cashier" to indifferent millionaires. Felix wanted to rush in and bet at once on something if he waited it might be too late. Was it necessary to be introduced to the cashier? No? Would he take the bet? All right, but
"Good and hard, except for the slush at the Boiler and another stretch just below the Cascade." Lapierre rolled a cigarette. "Hear you caught MacNair with the goods at last," he ventured. Ripley nodded. "Looks like it," he admitted. "But what do you mean, 'at last'?" The quarter-breed laughed lightly and blew a cloud of cigarette-smoke ceilingward.
A grunting gasp came to his ears, and then the silence and the night alike were split by a report, accompanied by a streak of orange flame shooting ceilingward from the middle of the room. Its light, transient as it was, gave him some inkling of the situation. Unthinkingly he flung himself forward, ready to grapple with that which first should meet his hands.
Tutt with entire good nature. "He's glad he did it and he's quite willing to be hanged!" "That's it in a nutshell!" replied Tutt. The senior partner of Tutt & Tutt ran his bony fingers through the lank gray locks over his left eye and tilted ceilingward the stogy between his thin lips.
Twisting spirals of smoke curled ceilingward. Von Ritz and Benton, kneeling at the King's side, raised him from the floor. The wounded man attempted to speak. His eyes turned inquiringly toward the door of the other room. Benton caught the questioning look and nodded his head. Then Karyl settled back against the officer's supporting shoulder after the fashion of a reassured child.
If long years of the military had taught him anything, it was patience. The other man had the initiative now, let him use it. Holland cast his eyes ceilingward, and, without referring to the dossier before him, said, "Crossed categories at the age of seventeen to Military, remaining a Rank Private for three years at which time promoted to corporal.
She glanced at them now and then, to make sure. Her equanimity restored by Patty's kindliness and tact, the girl lapsed into what was, doubtless, her customary way of eating. She displayed undue gusto, smacked her lips at the appearance of a dainty dish and when the dessert proved to be ice cream, she rolled her eyes ceilingward, and patted her chest in a very ecstasy of anticipation.
Dermott said, after a silence, peering into the cloud of smoke he had blown ceilingward, as though to foretell the future. "Ye see, Mr. Ravenel, if she will so far honor me, I'm intending some day to marry Katrine Dulany." There was again the challenge of the eyes, but Frank's training stood him well as he raised his brows with genuine surprise. "So?" he said.
She leaned back in her chair, clasped her slender hands behind her head, and stared ceilingward, with the air of one who has pleasantly solved all the perplexities of life. "Good heavens, what do you mean to do next?" Hamilton questioned, in frank alarm. "Never mind: you'll see," came the nonchalant answer.
"Would you have me slink away like a thief in the night, giving Cuthbert Mackenzie the pleasure of branding me far and wide as a coward? It is not to be thought of, sir." The captain shrugged his shoulders, and meditatively blew a cloud of smoke ceilingward. "I admire your spirit," he said, "but not your discretion. Am I to understand, then, Mr. Carew, that you choose honor before duty?"
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