Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 20, 2025
The faces of both men changed as they recognised this distinguishing mark, and instinctively their eyes met across the width of the open space separating them. Hexford's finger rose to his mouth, but Sweetwater needed no such hint.
Hexford's mouth had settled into a stiff, straight line and the other man's wore a cynical smile I did not like. At this presage of the difficulties awaiting me, I felt one strand of the rope sustaining me above this yawning gulf of shame and ignominy crack and give way. Oh, for a better record in the past! a staff on which to lean in such an hour as this!
Then he began to study the ground in this direction, as he had already studied it in front. The few mutterings which left his lips continued to speak of discontent. "If I had only had Clarke's chance, or even Hexford's," was among his complaints. "But what can I hope now? The snow has been trampled till it is one solid cake of ice, to the very edge of the golf-links.
I could not control my emotion if I let my imagination stray too far. The candlestick must be the property of the club. I had only forgotten. It was bought when? While thinking, planning, I was conscious of Hexford's eyes fixed steadily upon me. "Did you go into the kitchen in your wanderings below?" he asked.
"Do you mean to this house or to this stable?" "To this stable." "Have you heard that the horse was out that night?" "Yes, she was out." "Who driving?" "Ah, that's the question!" "This man can't tell you." A jerk of Hexford's thumb in Zadok's direction emphasised this statement. "But I'm going to talk to him, for all that." "He wasn't here that night; he was at a dance.
If this were the hall and this the table, then was every inch of the latter's simple cloth-covered top of the greatest importance in his eyes. He had no further time for even these cursory investigations; Hexford's step could be heard on the verandah, and Sweetwater was anxious to locate himself before the officer came in.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking