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He wasn't so stupid after all, the humpback wasn't. What Bogdan said infuriated the master. Bogdan let him shout and stared like a man hypnotized at the nickeled hilt of the hunting-knife. It was not until the name "Marcsa" again struck his ear that he became attentive. "Marcsa is in my employ now," he heard the lord saying. "You know I am fond of you, Bogdan.
There was, among other things, as I recall, a large nickeled ice-tray on wheels packed with unopened bottles of champagne, and you had but to lift a hand or wink an eye to have another opened for you alone, ever over and over. And the tray was always full. One wall of the dining-room farther on was laden with delicate novelties in the way of food.
He walked around the room once, opening and shutting the doors of the cabinets as he passed, and finally paused in front of the safe. A brief examination of the nickeled dial and handle and of the enameled edges of the heavy door satisfied him that no force had been employed the safe had merely been unlocked. Whereupon he sat himself down, cross-legged on the floor, in front of it.
Abby Daggett, the soft round of her beautiful, kind face flushed and tremulous, murmured: "Poor man poor man!" Mrs. Solomon Black with a masterly gesture headed the women toward her parlor, where a fire was burning in a splendidly nickeled stove full five feet high. "Now," said she; "we'll talk this over, whatever it is."
The place was brightly lighted by a nickeled lamp, though it was scarcely four feet high and the centerboard trunk occupied the middle of it. A wide cushioned locker ran along either side a foot above the floor, and a swing-table, fixed above the trunk, filled up most of the space between.
"Sure regular force." "Regular force?" The stranger pulled back his coat and displayed his nickeled star. "But what are you doing here?" gasped Orme, amazed. "Why, a foreign fellow came to the chief and said you wanted a man to keep an eye on your quarters to-night and the chief sent me. I was dozing a bit but I'm a light sleeper. I wake at the least noise."
Rapidly, nervously, he unscrewed it; but the hinges were riveted to the main structure, and after a brief examination he shrugged his shoulders despairingly. Then, he recollected that in the adjoining bathroom there was a metal towel rail, nickeled, and with a heavy knock at either end, attached by two brackets to the wall. He ran into the inner room and eagerly examined these fastenings.
Thereupon Lawrence was glad to escape, and Ormond, who rode out to gather the miners for a systematic search, left them mercifully alone. Afterward the old man brokenly narrated what had passed, and then there was a heavy silence in the room, out of which the sunlight slowly faded, until, as Miss Carrington told me, the ticking of a nickeled clock grew maddening.
"Don!" called the elder Melville, briskly. "We're going on shore now. You'd better leave your further studies aboard until to-morrow." "Good-bye, then, lads," said Don Melville, laying a hand on the nickeled railing of the spiral stairway leading up through the conning tower.
"Trust that to me!" exclaimed Davy; and snatching up the nickeled instrument he placed it to his lips, immediately sending forth the strident sounds that have done duty on many a battlefield. No sooner had the last note pealed forth than every boy listened eagerly; but there was no reply.
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