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For the rest, for the quality that betrayed the man, his expression was not to be read at a glance. Its major message seemed to be goodfellowship, but the seeming failed to strengthen into certainty on closer inspection. Here was a man who could think hiddenly, speak guardedly, wait for others to show their cards, and do all this with a disarming appearance of ingenuous friendliness.
As he completed the signal the door was opened guardedly. A man and woman surveyed him in hostile silence as he pushed past them, kicked the door shut, and deposited the blinking child on the kitchen table. Humpy, the one-eyed, jumped to the windows and jammed the green shades close into the frames.
But most of our games, I told her, were very old came down from child to child, along the ages, from the remote past. "And what is their effect?" she asked. "Do they develop the faculties you wish to encourage?" Again I remembered the claims made by the advocates of "sports," and again replied guardedly that that was, in part, the theory. "But do the children LIKE it?" I asked.
He had hoped for a long letter in the vein of the girl's chaffing humor, and the size of the missive was a distinct disappointment. He opened it guardedly, and his face fell as he pondered the verse. It was a neat, well-bred slap at him as a man without initiative or courage.
Sir James had looked at him during this harangue with unconcealed impatience. "I sent a letter to Chartley of Chartley Towers," he said, "one of us, and a strong one by all accounts. At any rate, my father always reckoned him as such. So I asked him guardedly what he thought, and his reply was, 'The chestnut is on the hob.
Over his third cup of coffee Casey eyed the stranger guardedly. He did not look like an officer. He was not big and burly, with arrogant eyes and the hint of leashed authority in his tone.
Then he went forward on foot, walking guardedly, his tread upon the grass making no sound to reach his own ears, and came to Pollard's gate. It was so dark under the pear trees that the obscurity was without detail; he must guess rather than know where the tree trunks were; it was hard to judge if they were ten feet or fifty feet from him.
"Just wandering about on general principles," replied Will, at the same time turning into one of the eaves belonging to the system of underground passages. "Thought I'd look in here first!" The lads entered the cavern as noiselessly as possible and looked guardedly about. A great heap of furs lay on the floor, and two figures rested upon them apparently lost in slumber.
We must work quickly. Tell me, Tom, who are at the camp anyone except relatives?" "No," he replied, guardedly measuring his words. "Uncle Lewis had invited his brother James and his niece and nephew, Isabelle and James, junior we call him Junior. Then there are Grace and myself and a distant relative, Harrington Brown, and oh, of course, uncle's physician, Doctor Putnam."
"Kid," he said sharply but kindly, "you're too good a hound for the desert. The city needs you here and, dammit, you keep on sniffing." Turning to the unsettled girl beside him, he went on briskly: "Work guardedly; query us when you have to; be sure of your facts, and consign your soul to God. Do I see you moving?" And when Farriss looked again he did.
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