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"Your job back and no questions asked," pursued Ellis, with an outer cheerfulness which cost him no small effort in the face of his growing conviction of some tragic issue pending. Now she looked directly at him, and there was a flicker of flame in her regard. "Do you know what a Hardscrabbler is, Ellis?" she asked. The other rubbed his head in puzzlement. "I don't believe I do," he confessed.
Isabel looked up, searching his face with the fond puzzlement which her eyes sometimes showed when they rested upon him; then she glanced down the hall toward Fanny's room, and, after another moment of hesitation, came quickly in, and closed the door. "Dear," she said, "I wish you'd tell me something: Why don't you like Eugene?"
Straight above hung the red-belted disk of Jupiter, with the pale globes of Satellites II and III wheeling close, and all of them were of the same relative size they had appeared when last seen from the Scorpion! Dr. Ku smiled unctuously at the puzzlement that showed on the faces of his captives.
He sat on our laps, curled up on the seat and took naps, or looked out of the windows with evident puzzlement at the way things had suddenly taken to flying; he even made friends with the passengers, and in general amused himself as any other traveller would on an all-day's journey by rail, except that he did not risk his eyesight by reading newspapers.
The rumble of the wheels had though she was awake prevented her from hearing the rapid approach of a number of horses in the wake of the coach, until a peremptory: "Halt! in the name of the Emperor!" suddenly chased every other thought away; like her father she murmured: "My God! what is it now?" This time there was no mystery, there would be no puzzlement as to the meaning of this fresh attack.
"But you told me the buccaneers stripped you of your money," he said, with a look of puzzlement. "So they did, but I happened to have this crown piece slung about my neck under my shirt, and it escaped their attention." "Egad, I should never have believed you were superstitious," he said with a laugh, and I laughed back, glad enough that I had escaped further interrogation.
"It does not seem right that women should fear men," said Tarzan, an expression of puzzlement on his face. "I am better acquainted with the jungle folk, and there it is more often the other way around, except among the black men, and they to my mind are in most ways lower in the scale than the beasts.
I suppose I must have looked the puzzlement I felt, for she added hastily: "The text, you know; a little cool rill of it to trickle down through the page like a fine, thin strain of music that that helps out the song tee- e-e-um; tee-e-e-um " She lifted her arm, sawing with a long ruler at a violin of air, "but you don't have to listen unless you wish to the obbligato, you know."
They went back two hundred five hundred years beyond the time when Council members first made contact with the Nucleus. There was nothing. Cameron sat back in complete puzzlement as it became apparent that it was useless to go back further. "The normal thing would be for them to brag all over the place about their great conquests.
Jenkins looked at his little friend with a still more complicated knot of puzzlement in his eyebrows, for he felt that Billie was scarcely fitted by years or experience to be a useful confidant.
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