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"There is something going on," she said, "something dark and horrible. How did you happen to show Mr. Van Buren let him see the last page of my letter?" "I didn't let him see anything," said Glen. "I was dopy, I tell you. I didn't even see the letter myself. Searle sat on the bed and read it aloud and lit his cigar with part of it later."
The pater had always been interested in the lonely old boy, so he sent me over to see if I could do anything for him. I found the place like this and the bird had flown. Went dopy I suppose about the bad news and tore things up a bit." Though the boy's words were slangy, there was real sympathy in his tone and the girls liked him the better for it.
You're dopy." "No, I ain't," said Wid. "I'm in a perfectly sane, sound and disposin' mind. You're getting awful sun-burned, but it only makes you good-lookinger, Miss Annie. "But now lemme tell you one thing," he went on, "I don't want to see you making no more eyes at that corporal in there. Plenty of men in the Army has run away and left three, four wives at home."
Impossible!" "True, nevertheless. Manderson has just now routed him out of the starboard storage-room, near the reserve petrol-tank." "Hm! Who is he?" Bohannan shrugged stout shoulders. "Don't know yet. He's still dopy. Just coming out of the effects of the lethalizing gas." "Ah, yes, yes, I see. One of the former crew, I suppose. This is quite inexcusable.
He had a native instinct for tracking that was wonderful; he had courage that was fatalistic, and he seemed to know what an animal would do and where it would go under certain conditions. Beneath that dopy somnolence of manner his senses were alert and his eyes were usually the first to see distant game.
The pater had always been interested in the lonely old boy, so he sent me over to see if I could do anything for him. I found the place like this and the bird had flown. Went dopy I suppose about the bad news and tore things up a bit." Though the boy's words were slangy, there was real sympathy in his tone and the girls liked him the better for it.
There was little enough to do in this line, for it was plain as day where Benny was bound for, and he knew himself he would never see that little home in Oakland again. Well, he got worse and worse, and sometimes when I went there he didn't know me, being out of his head or kind of dopy with the doctor's stuff, the shadow being over him, as Irish people say.
And in the morning came along two policemen on their way to the beats they owned. The park was deserted save for one dilapidated figure that sprawled, asleep, on a bench. They stopped and gazed upon it. "It's Dopy Mike," said one. "He hits the pipe every night. Park bum for twenty years. On his last legs, I guess."
The others, with the boat still rolling in the heavy sea, had surrounded Jenkins, and seemed to be arguing with him. The big man, saving his voice, answered only by signs as yet; but the voices of the others soon became audible to the two aft. "I tell you it's all worked out, Jenkins all figured out while you were dopy in your bunk." Jenkins shook his head.
"The last crack I gave him stretched him quivering on the ground. Hope it didn't kill the brute." "Hope it didn't?" shouted Little. "I hope it did!" "But I don't want to pay for his old dog." "Pay for it! Are you dopy, daft, or what's the matter with you? Why, that man had a spring gun set, and it would have filled you full of shot if you hadn't tripped!"
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