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Grabman, too thoughtful, too jealous of his rival, to take the hint at that moment, darted off, as fast as his thin legs could carry him, towards the unwelcome interferer in his own business. Approaching the gentleman, a tall, powerful-looking young man, he somewhat softened his tone, and mechanically touched his hat as he said, "What, sir, are you, too, in search of Mrs. Joplin?"
The moment that the motley army of our assailants came close enough to the house to enable them to see that it had been put into a state of defence, they halted, and some half-a-dozen of them clustered about an immensely tall and powerful-looking negro who was attired in the stained and somewhat tattered uniform of a Spanish infantry colonel, and wore a sword buckled about his waist, with a pair of big horse pistols thrust into his belt.
At the lines where the horses were picketed the Haussa picked out a powerful-looking brute a "salted" Cape horse which had shown considerable temper at previous times. Vaulting upon the animal Bela Moshi rode it barebacked, urging it at a gallop and finishing by taking a formidable obstacle in the shape of a cactus-bush. "How can do, sah?" he asked. "Good enough," replied Wilmshurst.
A very tall and powerful-looking man came to the head of the stairs, on hearing our footsteps, and regarded us suspiciously. Directly he recognized my companion, however, he allowed us to pass. "A nice quiet part of the hotel this," my guide remarked, glancing towards me. "Very!" I answered dryly. "A man might be hidden here very securely," he added. "I can well believe it," I assented.
It stretched along the entire top storey of a long block of buildings, and was elaborately fitted with bathrooms, a restaurant and a reading-room. The trapezes, bars, and all the usual appointments were of the best possible quality. The manager, a powerful-looking man dressed with the precision of the prosperous city magnate, came out of his office to greet them.
There was, however, to be no unpleasantness just then, at all events except in so far as poor Carter was concerned; for when he and I went aft to where Captain Williams a tall, powerful-looking, and rather handsome man in a barbaric sort of way, with a pair of piercing black eyes, and an abundant crop of black, curly hair, with beard and moustache to match was standing on the quarter-deck, just outside the entrance of the saloon, the captain stepped forward, and, extending his hand, bade me welcome to his ship with every sign of the utmost friendliness.
He was a tall, powerful-looking man, and Archie recognized in him the daring rider of the white horse the chief of the guerrillas. "I wonder what the old chap would say if he knew I was about," thought Archie "I, who gave him that wound. I'd be booked for Shreveport, certain."
"Estelle," he cried, more puzzled than angry when he suddenly caught sight of us both, "what are you doing here with that lout?" I was trembling with excitement not fear, of course, though Farewell was a powerful-looking man, a head taller than I was. I stepped boldly forward, covering the adored one with my body. "The lout," I said with calm dignity, "has frustrated the machinations of a knave.
And when the other horses saw him looking at Dad with his tail cocked, and his head up, and the bridle-reins hanging, they went for their lives through the trees, and Blossom's foal got staked. Another day Dad was out on Ned, looking for the red heifer, and came across two men fencing a tall, powerful-looking man with a beard, and a slim young fellow with a smooth face. Also a kangaroo-pup.
Dumb, khaki-colored fighters on wheels, staunch, powerful-looking, a host of them, rolling eastward toward the seat of war, some loaded with soldiers, some with camp equipments, and all hinting of the enormous resources the fatuous Kaiser had let loose upon himself in this far-off land. On other highways the weapons and materials of war were converging toward the great seaports in the same way.
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