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Updated: May 6, 2025
It was as if two men talked, one in rapid and clear-clipped syllables the other in a stutter. Said Viper, "There might be neck-stretching too if too many tongues make talk. Jess will have the boys ready at the place soon in the morning. They will wait for orders there." "At the place!" Halloway in his counterfeited sleep cursed to himself.
For a moment Benton was silent. When he spoke it was in quick, clear-clipped interrogation. "You know Puntal and Galavia?" "As I know Spain." "Manuel, suppose the quaking of a throne does interest me, you will go there with me even though I may lead you where its fall may crush us both?" The Spaniard grinned with a dazzling show of white teeth. His shoulders rose and fell in a shrug.
It was hardly the sort of greeting that the outsider might have expected, but neither financier nor secretary was an ordinary type and between them throve an excellent understanding. As Bristoll read from his notes Hamilton Burton's face lost its smile and became instantly attentive while his questions snapped out clear-clipped and comprehensive.
As he counted the four steps up, and then lifted the overhanging edge, there came upon him irresistibly the contrast between the serene party here last night, with their tapers and their delicate dresses and Mary's cool clear-clipped voice and his own soot-stained person, his desperate energy and his quick panting and heart-beating.
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