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Remember, perhaps he is dead, as he seems to be." "Yes, yes," said Miriam wildly, "we must find out. Shall we go now?" "Aye, while there is still a little light, for these steps are breakneck in the dark. No, do you follow me." So on they glided down the ancient, darksome stairway, where owls hooted and bats flittered in their faces.
He reached a silver cigar and cigarette box from the sideboard and put it before his father-in-law, and for a time the preliminaries of smoking occupied them both. Then Capes flittered to the hearthrug and poked the fire, stood up, and turned about. "Ann Veronica is looking very well, don't you think?" he said, a little awkwardly. "Very," said Mr. Stanley.
And athwart the fever-mists that arose to obscure her judgment, all sorts of will-o'-the-wisp plans flittered before her; tempting her to this and that course of action to anything rather than patient endurance to relieve her present state of misery by some sudden spasmodic effort, that took the semblance of being wise and right.
Again the lightning flashed, showing the faces and staring eyes of the thousands who watched, and even the white teeth of a great bat that flittered past. That flash seemed to burn off an edge of the lowering cloud and the light grew stronger and stronger, and redder and redder. Imbozwi uttered a hiss like a snake.
The scouts swept low, transmitting fine-screen images back to the fleet, of all they might see before they were shot down. They found the landing-grid. It contained nothing larger than Calhoun's Med Ship, Aesclipus Twenty. They searched here and there. They flittered to and fro, scanning wide bands of the surface of Dara.
She opened it and glanced abstractedly through the leaves as they flittered under her fingers. With her eyes on the page headings she said to him: "I quarrel with one of your premises." "Which one?" "The one that the woman we want will have the paper hidden in her hair or in her corsage or possibly in her stocking." "Well, I couldn't think of any other likely place in which she might hide it.
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