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"'Don' dey tell somethin' about pullin' teeth in dese here books? said the woman. "Abner shook his head. 'There may be, he said, 'but I don't know where to find it. "'And you's de librarian, said she, in a tone of supreme contempt, 'and don' know how to fin' what's in de books! And with this she re-wrapped her face and wabbled away.
As she had found the pearls she did not need to 'phone. The girl was at the door, with her hand on the key, before she realized how mad it would be not to make certain of her find. Yes, the pearls were really there, the darlings! She re-wrapped the parcel, and again was at the door when another thought struck her. Better make the bed look as it had looked before.
The American shout of exultation was repeated, and the forest gave back the echo. The Indians answered it with a fierce yell of defiance, and the forest gave back that, too. But Adam Colfax had been watching shrewdly. In his daring life he had been in more than one naval battle, and when he saw the schooner wrapped and re-wrapped in great coils and ribbons of flame he knew what was due.
He had seen, he thought, representatives of all known nationalities, but never one like the present visitor never one so pinkish in complexion, and so very bias-eyed never one who wrapped and re-wrapped himself in a single shawl so entirely, making it answer all the other vestments habitual to men.
It was dark when, having returned, he dismounted and swung the saddle from the horse to its tree. Familiar details kept him a long while, his hands were steady but slow, automatic in movement. He went in through the kitchen past Ettie to his room, and after a little he re-wrapped the revolver and laid it back in its accustomed place.
"Looks rather decent soap!" remarked Harry as I passed it to him, and then I re-wrapped it in its paper and placed it aside. At eleven o'clock I sat with Rivero, Gabrielle and Harry Hambledon in the dull reception-room at Scotland Yard, that same room wherein I had given information concerning the whereabouts of Mateo Sanz.
"It was, I remember, considered a great privilege to possess a silver ticket. It admitted its possessor for life, mind you! to the stand, the paddocks, the ring, anywhere. It also gave him a place at the annual race-dinner. Where on earth did you get this, Spargo?" Spargo took the ticket and carefully re-wrapped it, this time putting it in his purse.
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