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Cadet George Hanlon drew in a sharp, startled breath and half-rose from his chair. "The ... the Secret Service, sir? I didn't know there was one." "I told you it was top secret," Admiral Rogers said impressively. "We believe no one knows anything about its existence outside of the membership of that service, and officers of the rank of Rear Admiral or above."
She half-rose, her head thrust forward on her shriveled neck. Tobey paused, confused. "I dunno," he said. "Did he give you the pretty bright thing? And did he give you the ax " she paused and repeated the word loudly "the ax to bring home?" Tobey caught at the word. "The ax?" he cried. "The ax! Ugh! It was all sticky!" He shuddered. "Did pa give you the ax?" But the cloud had settled.
Jimmy half-rose, and, pulling his prisoner by inches to the door, felt up the wall till he found the electric-light button. The yellow glow that flooded the room disclosed a short, stocky youth of obviously Bowery extraction. A shock of vivid red hair was the first thing about him that caught the eye. A poet would have described it as Titian.
"Really, my diagnosis would have no value: I am not going to treat the dog." The physician laughed at his own pleasantry, but narrowly watched his patient from the corner of his eye. Presently he said: "Fleming, your description of the beast fits the dog of the late Atwell Barton." Fleming half-rose from his chair, sat again and made a visible attempt at indifference.
He strolled past the grill-hidden desk which had once held Oliva Cresswell, and saw out of the tail of his eye a stranger in her place and by her side the darkly taciturn Hilda Glaum. Mr. White, that pompous man, greeted him strangely. As the police chief came into the private office Mr. White half-rose, turned deadly pale and became of a sudden bereft of speech.
"And did he come and see Mr Morris in the morning?" Morris half-rose in his chair, but sat down again. "No, sir; and I haven't seen him from that day to this, though I had often seen them together before." "That will do, my man," said the Colonel quietly. "Now, Mr Morris; you wish to ask this man some questions?" "Yes, sir," cried Morris springing up.
Prompted by tender sympathy, Elizabeth half-rose from her easy-chair, but fell back again, murmuring: "No, no, she will best find her way to his heart alone. God help her to be frank and truthful." Still she listened, and her beautiful face grew anxious, for the sternness of her husband's voice, in answer to those feeble plaints, gave little hopes of conciliation.
The muscles ridged up along his jaw as he closed his lips tightly. "Any children?" said Eddring. "Daughter, eighteen years old; and a beauty, if I do say it." "I reckon you love her some, don't you, Captain? Thought a heap of your wife, too, maybe, didn't you?" Wilson half-rose, one hand upon his chair back, as he pounded on the table in front of him with the other.
Then she added, "I was half-tempted to sell some of it; but your father was so queer, and the things seemed so very ugly and unlike what is worn, that I never had the heart to part with them. I don't suppose they'd fetch a great deal." "Let's look at them," said Maggie. Mrs. Howland half-rose from her chair, then sank back again. "No," she said, "I am afraid of them.
After a pause, in which again she said no word, I added: "So, when you write the letter, you might hint, perhaps, that I usually work all the morning, and er am not a very lively visitor! Then she'll understand, you see." And I half-rose to return to my diminutive study, where I was slaving, just then, at an absorbing article on Comparative Aesthetic Values in the Blind and Deaf.
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