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"That phonograph is getting on my nerves. Aren't you sick of it?" "Jack London wrote a story once," he replied calmly, "of a Klondike prospector and his dog. Between them there was a feud of long-treasured hatred." Conscience glanced at him questioningly. "What has that to do with Eben and the phonograph?" she inquired. "The dog couldn't endure music.
"It seems to give me life," she declared, to add after a few moments of silence: "Situated as I am, they're like drops of water to a man dying of thirst." "But you're not going to die: you're going to live and be happy with me!" She looked at him questioningly, putting her soul into her eyes. "But you must trust me," he continued. "Haven't I already?" she asked.
"Cross!" She pointed into the void ahead; then, as we started forward, thrust out a hand to Ruth, held her back. Drake and Ventnor drew close to them, questioningly, anxious. But I stepped forward, out of the dim gleaming. Before me were two cubes; one I judged in that uncertain light to be six feet high, the other half its bulk. From them a shaft of pale-blue phosphorescence pierced the murk.
Dick smiled with a touch of cynicism. "Miss Moore was listening that night too," he said. "Yes," Juliet said quickly. "I was there." Saltash looked at her questioningly for a moment, then his look returned to Dick. "I am the friend who never tells," he observed. "So it was Miss Moore you were playing to, was it? Ah, Juliette!" He threw her a sudden smile. "I would I could play like that!"
There was a knock at the door. Mills entered with a note upon a salver. Sir Henry took it up, glanced questioningly at his wife, and tore open the envelope. "There will be no answer, Mills," he said. The man withdrew. Sir Henry read the few lines thoughtfully: Police-station, Dreymarsh SIR, According to enquiries made I find that Mr.
A young man came out of the saloon and stood eyeing her questioningly while he lit a cigarette. "Looking for a friend to-night?" he asked. Thea drew up the collar of her cape and walked on a few paces. The young man shrugged his shoulders and drifted away. Thea came back to the corner and stood there irresolutely. An old man approached her. He, too, seemed to be waiting for a car.
Nestor," he said; "see that none of these youngsters gets away during my absence." "I'm goin' to get away right now," Jimmie exclaimed. "I'm goin' with Ned to the city. I guess I'm not visiting China to live in a cornfield. I want to see the wheels go round!" The officer glanced at Ned questioningly, while the little fellow made a face back. "Let him come along," Ned said.
Ward uttered an exclamation none the less violent because it was half- suppressed, while, for my part, I laughed outright; and as Keredec turned his eyes questioningly upon me, I said: "Professor Keredec, you'd better understand at once that I mean to help undo the harm you've done.
"I have only nineteen minutes...." Gatton looked at me questioningly, but I could only shake my head. The significance of the Eurasian's words escaped me entirely; but as Damar Greefe begun, slowly and with palpable effort, to speak again, I saw a queer expression stealing over the face of the watchful Gatton.
There was a subtle, sardonic flavor to it on both sides and, once in a while, as Tamada, like an animated sphinx, went about his duties, Rainey saw the eyes of Carlsen turned questioningly upon the giant as if a bit puzzled concerning the exact spirit of his sallies. Rainey admired while he marveled at the sheer skill of Lund in this sort of a fencing bout.
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