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It would be almost impossible for the man not to watch for his ancient enemy. At two minutes to twelve, as the whistle boomed its warning to visitors to go ashore, Haggerty put his hard-palmed hand on Mason's shoulder. The man, intent on watching the gangplank, turned quickly, sagged, and fell back against the rail. "Come along," said Haggerty, not unkindly. Mason sighed. "One question. Did Mr.
Cruel, hard-palmed Isom, who had gripped her tender throat, was dead there on the floor at her feet! Dead by his own act, in the anger of his loveless heart. "I'm afraid he is," said Joe, dazed and aghast. The night wind came in through the open door and vexed the lamp with harassing breath.
Hogarty's hard eyes could be very hard hard and chilling as chipped steel and they were that now. He was only just beginning to awake to a realization of that profaned floor, but the smile upon Denny's mouth neither disappeared nor stiffened in embarrassment before that forbidding countenance. Instead he held out his hand a big, long-fingered, hard-palmed hand toward the ex-lightweight proprietor.
"There was a man I knew, a mighty hunter before the Lord and before the Game Laws." The thin brown fingers of the muscular hard-palmed hand played with the stem of a wineglass as the sentences came out, crisp and pointed. "Well, this is the story of a mistake, and an old shikari of your experience can find even more excuses for it than I can ... but perhaps I bore you?"
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