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"I heartily applaud your sentiment," said Nigel, with a laugh, as he helped himself to some of the food which the Dyak youth and Moses had prepared, "and if Van der Kemp will give me leave of absence I will gladly keep you company." "Zank you. Pass round zee victuals. My appetite is strong. It always vas more or less strong. Vat say you, Van der Kemp?" "I have no objection.
Afterwards, in a conversation with Nigel, the professor, referring to those qualities of the hermit which endeared him to men everywhere, said, with a burst of enthusiasm, which almost outdid himself "You cannot oonderstant Van der Kemp. No man can oonderstant him.
"Put your hand, palm up, under hers. I am going to withdraw my hand and retire, as I do not wish to excite her; she will probably open her eyes in a few moments. Take her home as quietly as you can." "You will call to-morrow?" whispered Levice. He quietly assented. "Now be deft." The transfer was quickly made, and nodding cheerfully, Dr. Kemp left the room. Ruth came forward.
"<i>Money like water!</i>" repeated the horrified Mr. Wright. "Money like I'll 'money' her I'll " "It don't matter to me," said Mr. Kemp. "I can have a headache or a chill, or something of that sort, if you like. I don't want to go. It's no pleasure to me." "What will it cost?" demanded Mr. Wright, pacing up and down the room. The rich uncle made a calculation.
When he was ready, he moved to Rip’s side and connected the hoses of the torch to the tanks the lieutenant carried. Kemp had the torch mechanism strapped to his own back. It was essentially a high pressure pump that drew oxygen and fuel from the tanks and forced them through the nozzle under terrific pressure. When he had finished, he pressed the trigger that started the cutting torch going.
He had been writing slackly, and with intervals of abstraction, since the shots. He sat listening. He heard the servant answer the door, and waited for her feet on the staircase, but she did not come. "Wonder what that was," said Dr. Kemp.
There stood the apparatus, the experiments arranged and waiting. And now there was scarcely a difficulty left, beyond the planning of details. "I will tell you, Kemp, sooner or later, all the complicated processes. We need not go into that now. For the most part, saving certain gaps I chose to remember, they are written in cypher in those books that tramp has hidden. We must hunt him down.
A sigh of satisfaction broke through the naturalist's moustache on hearing this. "Zen I vill ve vill, you and I, Mister Roy, go after ze booterflies to-morrow!" "But we must push on," remonstrated Van der Kemp, "for preparations to resist an attack cannot be commenced too soon." "You may push on, mine frond; go ahead if you vill, but I vill not leave zee booterflies.
I am afraid that if I had been in your place that is if I had known as much about the tragedy as you do when Kemp was in the witness-box yesterday, I would not have seen anything more in his evidence than the fact that he was committing perjury in order to help Holymead." "I think you would," said Crewe.
"I say..." Ginger Kemp turned bright scarlet and glared before him at the uniformed official, who was regarding their tête-
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