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Turning to Leroy again he said: "You are quite ready?" "Quite," replied Leroy. "And your friends ?" Leroy smiled. "They are ready also!" There followed a pause. Then Thord called in a clear low tone "Lotys!" The woman sitting in the embrasure of the window rose, and turning round fully confronted all the men.
"It sounded horribly indecorous I expected to see her in fragments on the floor and I fairly gasped." "Gasped, mother? You laughed in his face!" "Did I, dearest? It is possible." Mrs. Leroy admitted. "And when I looked vague he explained, 'I mean that you seem to have relinquished the reins very early, Cousin Alice! "'Relinquished? Relinquished? said I. 'Why, dear me, Mr.
But when the Princess Anatolie and Monsieur Leroy gravely declared their belief in the communications of departed persons by means of rappings, not to say by touch, and by strains of music, and perfumes, and even, on rare occasions, by actual apparition, then Don Nicola felt that it was his duty to protest, and he accordingly protested with considerable energy.
"A friend took these snap-shots of us," she explained, returning the photos to their places, "and Leroy likes to preserve them 'just for fun' he says. We spent little time in looking at the few rude head-boards and scattered mounds of those quiet sleepers by the sea, but bestowed more attention upon the beach-miners on our left.
The boy talked with the Indian for a short time, and then turned to Ned, excitement showing in his face. "He says there's another airship here," Mike said. "Prowling over the mountains." "They can't follow us in the air, eh?" cried Leroy. "I guess this is going some!"
"Thanks, I'll remember when it comes to that!" "You're incorrigible, Stan," said Leroy, as his guests were taking their leave. "You'd better settle down yourself first, and leave Shelton alone." When they had all gone, the host stood looking at the empty chairs.
"Better to be a popular dancer," whispered Paxhorn, as the door swung open again, and Adrien came out, with Ada Lester on his arm, Mr. Jasper Vermont following behind them. "All here?" asked Leroy in his clear voice, as they descended the steps to where the motors stood waiting. "Come along" turning to the rest of the party "we are all going to supper to celebrate Ada's triumph.
The young woman looked in his direction and was favorably impressed with his open, frank expression. "I'll trust myself to your care," said she, pulling away from the well dressed young man. Leroy Crutcher, for such was his name, cast a look of malignant hatred at Bud Harper, the successful hackman and muttered something under his breath.
So vast was the number of volunteers, in companies and in regiments, each eager to be accepted, that the Hon. Leroy P. Walker, the first Secretary of War of the Confederacy, was fairly overwhelmed by the flood of applicants that poured in on him day and night.
Whereupon she pressed an invisible spring under the table, which set a bell ringing in some lower quarter of the house. "Pasquin Leroy, Axel Regor, Max Graub!" she said "Take your places for to-night beside me newcomers are always thus distinguished! And all of you sit down! You are grouped at present like hungry wolves waiting to spring.
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