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I followed in some clumsier fashion, leaving Jennifer to keep the canoe; but half way up the hill he joined me, and would not turn back for all my urging. "No; hang me if I'll let you out of eye-grip again," was all he would say; and so we went together, and were together at the seeing of what the glowing ember-heap would show us. Poor Tomas had his sepulture already.
Judson had broken the curious eye-grip at last, and again he said, "Why?" Gridley hooked his finger absently in the engineer's buttonhole. "Because, if you don't, a man named Rufford says he'll start a lead mine in you. I heard him say it last night overheard him, I should say. That's all." The master-mechanic passed on, going out by the great door which opened for the locomotive entering-track.
How is that?" I bowed as best I might, being so tightly bound; then fixed his eye again. "You had forgot that honor is not wholly dead, sir. This lady is my wife." For some small instant I dared not loose my eye-grip on the colonel, to glance aside at Falconnet, or Gilbert Stair, or at the woman close beside me.
Ford fastened his companion in a steady eye-grip. "One question, Mr. Eckstein; do they play fair with all concerned?" "They are more than fair; they are generous with the company, and with the company's representatives with whom they have to do business.
Judge MacFarlane started guiltily, shook off the angry eye-grip of his accuser, and went to take his place in the Pullman. One minute later the east-bound train was threading its way out among the switches of the lower yard, and Kent had burst into the telegraph office to wire the volcanic news to his chief.
On two contracts with us they have lost money; but I happen to know that in both instances they kept their promises to the engineering department to the letter." Ford had cast off the eye-grip and he appeared to be studying the fresco design of the ceiling over the private secretary's head. "And those promises were ?" Eckstein laughed boyishly. "You needn't make a mystery of it with me, Mr. Ford.
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