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We left Kâramanèh crouching against the wall; her great eyes were turned towards me fascinatedly. Smith locked the door with much care. We began a tip-toed progress along the dimly-lighted passage. From beneath a door on the left, and near the end, a brighter light shone. Beyond that again was another door.
Ten minutes had passed in this occupation, the Judge and Union Mills conversing in the furtive whispers of children unavoidably but fascinatedly present at a family quarrel, when a light step was heard upon the crackling brushwood outside, and the bright panting face of the Old Man appeared upon the threshold.
His position revealed a full ten inches of the startling hose; and, since they were almost under his nose, Clint gazed at them fascinatedly. "Some socks, are they not?" inquired the youth. Clint, already a little embarrassed by the other's friendliness, removed his gaze hurriedly. "They're very nice," he murmured. The other elevated one ankle and viewed it approvingly.
Morris good-afternoon and she returned the salutation with unction. Both ladies looked fascinatedly to the last at the black smooch on her cheek as they backed out. "I thought I should burst right out laughing every time I looked at her, in spite of myself," whispered Mrs. Lee, as they passed down the walk. "So did I." "And no collar on!" "Yes. She must have been house-cleaning." "Yes.
"We all took different directions, too," said Roy, taking a seat on the couch again and staring fascinatedly at the window. "If all the rest of you hadn't seen it too, I should certainly think I had been mistaken." "You weren't mistaken," Mollie assured him grimly. "I can vouch for that." "Didn't one of you girls call out something about Professor Dempsey?" asked Frank, abruptly.
We left Karamaneh crouching against the wall; her great eyes were turned towards me fascinatedly. Smith locked the door with much care. We began a tip-toed progress along the dimly lighted passage. From beneath a door on the left, and near the end, a brighter light shone. Beyond that again was another door.
Almost supporting my companion, whose courage seemed suddenly to have failed her, I stared fascinatedly at that blood-stained relic. Something then induced me to look behind; I suppose a warning instinct of that sort which is unexplainable. I only know that upholding Carneta with my left arm, and nervously grasping my revolver in my right, I turned and glanced over my shoulder.
Stealthily creeping up the sands till she could get behind the cover of some bushes before she took to her wings, Polynesia went off in the direction of the town; while I remained alone upon the shore fascinatedly watching this unbelievable monster wallowing in the shallow sea. It moved very little. From time to time it lifted its head out of the water showing its enormously long neck and horns.
There were other carefully thought out items in the ship with the same purpose. But none of them should cause Murgatroyd to stare fixedly and fascinatedly at the sleeping cabin door. Not when coffee was in the making! Calhoun considered. He became angry at the immediate suspicion that occurred to him. As a Med Service man, he was duty-bound to be impartial.
He was gazing at the trapdoor which was slowly rising; inch by inch ... inch by inch ... Fascinatedly, raptly, we all gazed. A head appeared in the opening and some vague, reflected light revealed two long, narrow, slightly oblique eyes watching us. They were brilliantly green. "By God!" came in a mighty roar from Weymouth. "It's Dr. Fu-Manchu!" As one man we leapt for the trap.
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