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For all you've done to help me. But I can't talk about it. I just can't. That's all. I don't guess you need to read the stuff I've written now. You see I'll need to make another report." "Why?" Ross's interrogation broke from him almost before he was aware of it. "Why?" Steve's eyes widened. Then they dropped before the questioner's searching gaze. "Yes," he went on dully.
The volatile urchin, who might have been about thirteen years of age, became preternaturally grave all of a sudden, and, looking up earnestly in his questioner's face, said, "Really, Henry, you are becoming unreasonable in your old age, to ask me to give you a reasonable account of a thing, and at the same time to be silent!"
"I air listenin'." He was bending so far back now that his shaggy head rested against the shanty boards. Burnett was piercing him with a strange, mesmeric gaze. "Where's Andy Bishop?" boomed like thunder from the warden. That name, though he knew his questioner's errand, so suddenly falling on Orn's ears, congealed his blood and knotted his muscles with fear.
'No, he said, 'I never heard of any one of 'em. His shifty eye tried in vain to meet his questioner's, and he began to fumble nervously with other papers which he had drawn from his pocket in his search for the first. 'It needs no penetration to discover that this man is lying, said the General to himself. He addressed his question to John Jervase, who made shift somehow to meet his look.
We have promised. We must return to-morrow." Fitzgerald saw the drift and bent forward. The admiral fumed because his Italian was an indifferent article. "But," pursued M. Ferraud, "we will pay you twenty francs the day, just the same." "We are promised." Carlo shrugged and spread his hands, but the glitter in his questioner's eyes disquieted him. "What's this about?" growled the admiral.
Miller met his questioner's earnest gaze defiantly. "I have," he admitted. "State it now, then, please." Miller rose to his feet. He became a little oratorical, more than usually artificial. "I make my appeal to you, Dartrey," he said.
But something happened presently which, though but a simple incident enough, and all in the day's routine, made any such supposition seem most unlikely. The telephone bell rang. Ellen saw Amy's face change at the first sound of her questioner's voice, with that subtle change which sometimes tells more than the person engaged in this form of communication realizes. "Yes, Dr. Burns," she said.
'Why, replied the youth, drawing closer to his questioner's side, 'I was with him at night, and when it was all silent he cried no more for friends he wished to come and sit with him, but began to see faces round his bed that came from home; he said they smiled, and talked to him; and he died at last lifting his head to kiss them. Do you hear? 'Yes, yes, rejoined Nicholas.
In her embarrassment she plunged as usual into the middle of her carefully prepared speech, explaining so tremulously and incoherently that for a moment her puzzled listener was doubtful of his questioner's sanity. Finally, when made to understand, he was very kind and very sympathetic, but his answer merely sent her on another quest. She would have to apply to the treasurer, he told her, Mr.
I know that," with a decided air, "because I have seen him do it." "Cool enough, that, upon my word," was her questioner's mental comment, "and not unpleasant for Donne; but hardly significant of a fastidious taste, if it is a public exhibition." "Ah, indeed!" he said, aloud. "They have been engaged so long, you know," volunteered Mollie. "Singularly enough, I did not know, Mollie," he replied.
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