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Updated: May 3, 2025
After walking some fifty yards down the street I turned half round and beheld, as I knew I should, the whole company at the door staring after me. I leered sideways at them for about half a minute, but they stood my leer stoutly. Suddenly I was inspired by a thought. Turning round I confronted them, and pulling my note- book out of my pocket, and seizing my pencil, I fell to dotting vigorously.
"Yo' beast!" said the righteous publican, regarding the figure of his best customer with fine scorn. Then catching sight of a photograph in the little man's hand: "Oh, yo're that sort, are yo', foxy?" he leered. "Gie us a look at 'er," and he tried to disengage the picture from the other's grasp.
She stopped and laughed, then drank. Presently setting down the glass again, she leered in a manner frankly animal at Mr. Blee, and told him to say what he might have to say and be quick about it. He fired a little at this invitation, licked his lips, cleared his throat, and cast a nervous glance or two at the window. But nobody appeared; no thunder-visaged Lezzard frowned over the geraniums.
He reached down and picked it up, and when he straightened himself he pulled out a dime and handed it to the beggar, who, instead of accepting the proffered donation, disdainfully pushed aside the hand holding the alms and stepping closer he almost insultingly leered into Joe's face. "Say, McDonald," he hissed, "when did you make your getaway?"
They were lifting Stangeist up now, propping him up in the chair. Stangeist moaned, opened his eyes, stared in a dazed way at the three faces that leered into his, then dawning intelligence came, and his face, that had been white before, took on a pasty, grayish pallor. "You the three of you!" he mumbled. "What's this mean?" And then Clarie Deane laughed in a low, brutal way.
With long, tapered fingers, Jack Hardy rolled a cigarette, placed it between his lips and leered insultingly. "There's only one law in Midway," he laughed evilly, "and that law is that all strangers must attend to their own business. Now I don't know who yuh are, but " "I'm Kid Wolf," came the soft-spoken drawl, "from Texas. My enemies usually call me by mah last name."
The boy leered and jerked his thumb towards the direction of the river. "Closed to-night, follower of the Way," he said with a smothered noise like a strangled laugh. "Closed to-night. Every door shut, every light hidden, and those who go and demand the dreams cannot pass in. I, only, know the password, since my master receives high persons." He spat on the floor.
"But what's the use of settin' out here like a couple of dam' buzzards when the ladies are waitin' for us in there?" queried Malvey, and be leered at Flores. The old Mexican grunted and rose stiffly. They entered the 'dobe, Malvey insisting that Pete come in and hear Boca sing. "I can listen out here." Pete was beginning to hate Malvey, with the cold, deliberate hatred born of instinct.
"I'll I'll go away," he said, "I was only going to sleep here." The convict, still guarding the door, leered brutally at him, his head hanging low, his lips apart, more like a beast than a man. "No, yer won't go 'way, nuther," he finally said; "yer ain't goin' ter double-cross me, pal. Wot d'yer say yer wuz?" "A scout," said Pee-wee. "I don't need to stay here, you were here first.
A war-bride!" But Paliser, who had his fill, was rising and, abandoning histrionics, she resumed: "The 24th at eight; don't forget!" Then as he passed from the portal, the priestess lifted her hands. "What a fish! Fast or loose, what a fish!" Above her Mammon glowed, behind her leered Priapus. Through the sunny streets, Paliser drove to the Athenæum, where everybody was talking war.
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