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A creeping sensation about their scalps was experienced by the two eavesdroppers on observing that they had passed not a hundred yards from a sentinel who occupied a low knoll on their left. Neither Dan nor Fergus dared to speak not even to whisper.
He regarded servants as spies and eavesdroppers, and perhaps there was an excuse for his uncharitable view. At nine-fifty, ten minutes after Frank had entered the gates of Weald Lodge, a car with gleaming headlights came quickly from the opposite direction and pulled up outside the gates.
"I'm hired to keep secrets as well as discover them," Grim answered, smiling broadly. "Of course you are," she retorted. "But I know all Roger's secrets, and he's a doctor, mind you! Am I right, Roger? Come along! There are no servants no eavesdroppers. Wait. I'll put tea on the table, and then we'll all listen."
As he said nothing for a moment, she added rather defiantly: "I daresay you think it is absurd that I should listen to village gossip, but the truth is, I've a kind of horror of the child. He terrifies me!" Dr. O'Farrell looked round the room as if he feared eavesdroppers. He even got up and went to see if the door was really shut. "That's very curious," he said thoughtfully. "Very curious indeed.
"What do you want with us?" demanded Ivan. The man laughed. "What would we want of eavesdroppers and spies? This is our house, poor as it is. We will guard it when young thieves like you come peering in the cracks. What did you think to steal of honest men as poor as yourselves? Your friend here deserves his broken head. Must I give you one, or will you come with me peaceably?"
Who would have anything to gain but an enemy?" "If we had the answers, we could find the saboteur," Gordon pointed out. "If we knew why he calls himself 'The Earthman' we might also have a lead. But as it is, we're stumped. It could be anyone on the base, including me." "Is it you?" Barby asked in a stage whisper. Gordon looked around, as though to make sure there were no eavesdroppers.
He gave it" here, though the door was closed and bolted, and there was no fear of eavesdroppers, he sank his voice to a whisper "he gave it to Fullaway's secretary, the woman we discussed, Mrs. Marlow. That's a fact. He gave it to her just before he set off for Russia." Chettle screwed his lips up to whistle instead of whistling he suddenly relaxed them to a comprehending smile.
"I only had them reserved for me a day or two, stating that I would either call again or send an order for them, if I decided to purchase them," replied Venner. "Are you quite sure that only Mr. Hafferman heard you make that statement?" "Sure only in that the office door was closed, and that he alone was with me. If there were any eavesdroppers about I did not suspect it."
At first, she looked around her, suspiciously, as if distrusting eavesdroppers; then she gazed wistfully into the face of her attentive companion; after which this exhibition of girlish coquetry and womanly feeling, terminated by her covering her face with both her hands, and laughing in a strain that might well be termed the melody of the woods.
For our errand lies amidst dark forests with their hidden perils and dangers, and I wot that none know better what such dangers are nor how they may be escaped than our brethren of Gascony." "Then you know on what quest we are bent, sweet Prince?" Edward nodded his head as he looked over his shoulder. "Ay, that I do right well, and that will I tell you incontinently if no eavesdroppers be about.
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