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"I used the thing on the indicator, the contraption in the box, but I think it's clean enough." Barbara ate her doughnut and drank the bitter tea. Miss Grant looked friendly and she liked the engineer. They were frank, human people, and she thought them kind. Robertson began to talk about carpets, gas-stoves and pans, and Miss Grant told Barbara what the articles cost.
"The conductor of the express, I mean. He said the dog would mind you." "He seems to like me," she replied, turning to the mastiff that had stood all this time close to her. "That is Tom Cameron's dog all right," said one of the other men. "And that lantern is off his motorcycle, I bet anything! He went through town about dark on that contraption, and I shouldn't wonder if he's got a tumble."
"This contraption is bound to come down pretty quick and when it does it'll be all off." "Can't see why that should worry you any," remarked the colonel cheerfully. "It won't be your funeral." "No, but I'll have one at about the same time," Stubbs moaned. "I go down when you do." He raised his voice a trifle. "Let's go down, Hal," he continued. "I'm awfully sick."
"I understand that I'm going to the fair," he told her, as Johnnie Green backed him between the thills of a wagon. "Once I would have been hitched to a light buggy, with a sulky tied behind it. But now I've got to take you and your family in this rattlety old contraption." Henrietta Hen didn't wait to hear any more.
He was still partial to khaki trousers, and these were worn with a strange contraption for a belt; it was a kind of braided fiber of his own manufacture, the material of which was said to have been taken from a string tree. As he resumed his way through the woods he presently heard a cheery, but rather exhausted, voice behind him. "Have a heart, Slady, and wait a minute, will you?"
He had discovered that there were mullet jumping out of the water here and there, "acrobats of the gulf," Frank called them. Among other things aboard the motor-boat they had found a contraption which Frank said was a small Spanish cast-net. It had a row of leads along the bottom, with leading strings passing up through a central ring.
And then we were so hot and thirsty that we stopped in the inn and had beer plain, frothy beer while the chauffeur was trying to start his old contraption into life. Um-mh! That seems a dreadfully long time ago." "It does! It does!" he assented glumly, and fell to staring into the fire as if therein he could bring it all back to vision.
In this contraption we got as far as Nikolsk, where our truck was to have been hung on to the Harbin Express; but the station-master, the best type of Russian public official, thought it a disgrace that the Commander and Staff of their most trusted Ally should travel so. He placed his private car at my disposal on my promise to return the same if and when I could find another.
Strangely enough, there was something very comforting about his enormous crawling contraption. It was docile and reliable, like an elephant. The crashing clangour of its movement was soon forgotten became, in fact, an actual stimulus to thought.
As the gate clicked, John raised his head; then as Bryce's quick step spurned the cement walk up the little old-fashioned garden, he rose and stood with one hand outstretched and trembling a little. He could not see, but with the intuition of the blind, he knew. "What is it, son?" he demanded gently as Bryce came up the low steps. "George, choke that contraption off,"
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