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"But they've been bringing such pressure to bear to make me agree to an earlier wedding day !" "Not even that shakes my belief in Mrs. Inche's story. As a matter of fact, Bayard offered her half a million if she'd divorce him quietly, without any publicity, in the West." "And she accepted ?" "She has refused, believing she stands to gain more by holding on."
The door slammed on Peter as Bewilderment. In the hall, savagely punching the elevator bell, P. Sybarite employed the first part of an enforced wait to return the clip of cartridges to its chamber in the butt of Mrs. Inche's pistol.... He punched the bell again.... He put his thumb upon the button and held it there....
The little man accepted the card with no discernible sign of jubilation over Shaynon's discomfiture. "Thank you," he said mildly; but waited close by her side. For a moment Shaynon's face reminded him of one of the masks of crimson lacquer and black that grinned from the walls of Mrs. Inche's "den." But his accents, when he spoke, were even, if menacing in their tonelessness.
Halting, P. Sybarite wheeled and dropped a hand to the pocket wherein rested Mrs. Inche's automatic. "Get that door open!" he cried to the boy. "I've got a taxi waiting " His words were drowned out by the thunderous detonations set up by a second shot in that constricted space.
Deep transverse grooves are then cut in the rounded surface of each half at intervals of three or four feet; and the intervening masses of wood are split off. In this way it is whittled down until it is only some six inche's thick. The plank is then trimmed down to the desired thickness by blows of the adze struck across the direction of the grain.
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