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It was the vril, the force, of Dr. Fu-Manchu. I began to move away from the window. But Smith held my wrist as in a vise. He was listening raptly to the torrential speech of the Chinaman who sat in the chair; and I perceived in his eyes the light of a sudden comprehension.
Just now, Bedient caught the waving hand of David Cairns in the small crowd below. Fifteen minutes later they were in a cab together.... Beth had returned to New York. This was the answer to Bedient's first question. "Are you going to stay with us this time, Andrew?" Cairns asked, raptly studying his friend. "Yes. Several weeks at least." "At the Club?" "No.
Many a time we who were watching said to one another: Surely that's not the end of the K.O.Y.L.I., or the Bedfords, or whatever regiment it might be! A battalion going into action has some men singing, some smiling vaguely to themselves, some looking raptly straight ahead, and some talking quickly as if they must never stop. A battalion that has come many miles is nearly silent.
"She's used to it," said Jerry raptly. "She must be. People with gifts like that why, of course folks go to see 'em." He was removed and silent after this, and had scarcely a word for Marietta's late-blooming calla that had held her in suspense through the winter when she had wanted it, to unroll its austere deliciousness now in the spring.
Frank, who had buried her face raptly in her armful of jonquils, looked up at him with gentle exasperation. "We are English," she said blankly. "English! We can't understand!" And she returned to her flowers and her husband once more. The two uniformed intruders conferred for a moment, while the conduttore, on the platform outside, naturally enough expostulated over the delay of the train.
Hen sat with his big-jointed hands hanging loosely over his knees and listened, stared at Bud and grinned vacuously when one song was done, gulped his Adam's apple and listened again as raptly to the next one. The others forgot all about having fun watching Hen, and named old favorites and new ones, heard them sung inimitably and called for more.
The man in the painted vest was seated at a table laying out cards in a complicated pattern of a solitaire game. And at one side a round-faced Mexican in ornate, south-of-the-border clothing held a guitar across one plump knee, now and then plucking absent-mindedly at a single string as he stared raptly into space. A third man stood behind the bar polishing thick glasses. "Greetings!"
She did not glance at me, but she bent her head, assenting. All her attention was focused raptly on that bed beside the wall. "Yes," she whispered; "a long time before us. A month ago at least." Her eyes had begun to shine. "Oh, I don't dare to believe it; I've hardly dared to hope for it. But if it is true, I am going to be happier than I ever thought I could be again."
Poppa and I rushed raptly to the window, but discovered nothing remarkable. "To see what, Augusta?" demanded he. "The Normandy poplars, love. Aren't you awfully disappointed in them? I am. So wooden!" Poppa said he didn't know that he had been relying much on the poplar feature of the scenery, and returned to his weary search for American telegrams in a London daily paper.
Alone at her table, she gazed raptly aloft, meditating perhaps some daring new feat. Merton Gill stared, entranced, frozen. The Montague girl perfectly understood this look and traced it to its object. Then she surveyed Merton Gill again with something faintly like pity in her shrewd eyes. He was still staring, still rapt. Beulah Baxter ceased to look aloft.
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