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Soon they brought me before an important-looking body of Indians, who proved to be the chiefs and principal warriors. Among them I recognized, old Satanta and others whom I knew. I supposed that all was over with me. All at once Satanta asked me where I had been, and I suddenly had an inspiration. I said I had been after a herd of cattle or "Whoa-haws" as they called them.
But this engaging display might indeed be a scene having an actual existence at no great space away." "Such is assuredly the case," admitted Fa Fai. "Within certain limitations, imposed by this new art of depicting realities as they are, we may be regarded as standing before an open window. The important-looking building on the right is that erected by this person's venerated father.
Fully fifteen months after the visit to my sister, during which we had met Sir Robert, the whole was suddenly and unexpectedly recalled to my memory. Mark and Nora the elder my sister, that is, were in their turn staying with us, when one morning at breakfast the post brought for the latter an unusually bulky and important-looking letter.
Indeed I felt badly sometimes, and wondered if it could be that my hero were lacking in enterprise and what the world calls "push." But as I observed more closely, I dismissed this suspicion as unjust; for I began to note that one or two of the grave, important-looking men whom Roger Dale treated with so much suavity, were much more frequent visitors over the way.
Finally they brought me before an important-looking body of Indians, who proved to be the chiefs and principal warriors. I soon recognized old Satanta among them, as well as others whom I knew, and supposed it was all over with me. "The Indians were jabbering away so rapidly among themselves that I could not understand what they were saying. Satanta at last asked me where I had been.
Chichester wept as she said: "He was always the most unfeeling, the most heartless the most " "Now in his will " interrupted the lawyer, producing a leather pocket-book filled with important-looking papers: "In his will " he repeated Mrs. Chichester stopped crying: "Eh? A will?" "What?" said Alaric, beaming; "did the dear old gentleman leave a will?"
A row of rather silent but important-looking gentlemen, morning cigars afire, gradually formed ranks in arm-chairs under the colonnade; people passing and repassing began to greet each other with more vivacity; veranda and foyer became almost animated as the crowd increased.
Motor-cars were now arriving every minute, bringing important-looking persons who had timed their journeys so as to come upon the scene a little before 3:45, when the sun would show on the horizon; and whenever one of these big gentlemen appeared within the circle of stones, especially if he was big physically and grotesque-looking in his motorist get-up, he was greeted with a tremendous shout.
An important-looking youth in the uniform of an ambulance surgeon was stitching up a portion of my left forearm with cheerful nonchalance. My brand new dress suit, I observed, had lost all semblance to an article of clothing; they had covered me, as I lay upon the couch, with a torn portiere. The apartment was strangely dark. Here and there stood a lantern, such as are used by the fire department.
A quarter of an hour later, having first encountered a sentry at the upper end of the path, to whom Carlos whispered some password which I could not catch, we found ourselves safely at the base of the cliff and at the extreme end of the village. Arrived here, we directed our steps toward the most important-looking house in the place, at the door of which Carlos knocked.
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