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"That's worth many pearls of price!" "Supposing," said Cleigh, trickling the beads from palm to palm "supposing I offered you the equivalent in cash?" "No, Eisenfeldt has my word." "You refuse?" Plainly Cleigh was jarred out of his calm. "You refuse?" "I've already explained," said Cunningham, wearily. "I've told you that I like sharp knives to play with. If you handle them carelessly you're cut.
Otherwise, I'll lock you up in a place not half so comfortable as this." "Piracy!" "Yes, sir. These are strangely troubled days. We've slumped morally. Humanity has been on the big kill, with the result that the tablets of Moses have been busted up something fierce. And here we are again, all kotowing to the Golden Calf! All I need is your word the word of a Cleigh." "I give it."
Old Slue Foot. The biggest odds I'd ever encountered. Nominally, I had about one chance in a thousand of pulling through. The presence of Mrs. Cleigh of course she's Mrs. Cleigh by this time! added to the zest. To bring her through with nothing more than a scare! Odds, odds! Cleigh, on my word, the pearls would have been of no value without the game I built to go with them. Over the danger route!
Cleigh extended it to her. The moment her hands touched the volume she saw that she was holding something immeasurably precious. The form was unlike the familiar shapes of modern books. The covers consisted of exquisitely hand-tooled calf bound by thongs; there was a subtle perfume as she opened them. Illuminated vellum. She uttered a pleasurable little gasp.
"Of course the Great Adventure Company had to be financed," went on Cunningham with a deprecating gesture. "Naturally," assented Cleigh. "And that, I suppose, will be my job?" "Indirectly. You see, Eisenfeldt told me he had a client ready to pay eighty thousand for the rug, and that put the whole idea into my noodle." "Ah!
Dennison acknowledged her greeting with a smile, a smile which was a mixture of wonder and admiration. How in the world was she to be made to understand that they were riding a deep-sea volcano? "Nothing disturbed you through the night?" asked Cleigh, lifting the pin from the record. "Nothing. I lay awake for an hour or two, but after that I slept like a log. Have I kept you waiting?" "No.
"Yes." "Did they steal anything?" Cunningham could positively see Cleigh's jowls redden as he shook his head to the query. "Sorry. You can't expect us to waste coal hunting for a scoundrel who only borrowed your yacht." But what was the row between Cleigh and his son? That was a puzzler. Not a word! They ignored each other absolutely. These dinners were queer games, to be sure.
Denny isn't afraid, and that's why I am afraid he'll run amuck uselessly. His very strength will react against him." "I was like that thirty years ago." So she called him Denny? Cleigh laid his hand over hers. "Keep your chin up. There's a revolver handy should we need it. I dare not carry it for fear Cunningham might discover and confiscate it. Six bullets."
He had made his entrance stormily enough, but now the hot words stuffed his throat to choking. Cleigh was thirty years older than his son; he was a finished master of sentimental emotions; he could keep all his thoughts out of his countenance when he so willed. But powerful as his will was, in this instance it failed to reach down into his heart; and that thumped against his ribs rather painfully.
Because some presciential instinct warned her that Denny was either dead or badly hurt! The narrowness of the passage gave Cleigh one advantage none of the men could get behind him. Sometimes he surged forward a little, sometimes he stepped back, but never back of the line he had set for himself. By and by Jane forced her gaze to the deck to see what it was that held him like a rock.
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