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"I should say murder, or something just a little short of murder wouldn't you?" Greenleaf looked his bewilderment. "No," he objected. "I don't believe she'd protect him if she knew he'd killed her sister." "Not if she knew, perhaps," Bristow pursued ruminatively. "But if she suspected, merely suspected?" The chief did not answer this. He was clinging now to the theory of Perry's guilt.
"Well, un had a good wettin' an' a cold souse," said he, as he piled the wood neatly behind the stove, addressing himself to Ed, who, now quite recovered from his chill, stood with his back to the stove, puffing contentedly at his pipe, with the steam pouring out of his wet clothes. "'Twere just a fine time wi' th' dip I had ten year ago th' winter comin'," said Ed, ruminatively.
He had designed power houses and pulp mills and canals and head gates, but a block house baffled him. "In those days," began Clark ruminatively, "they were places of defense. Two stories, the bottom one of stone so that the Indians couldn't set fire to it. That part is eight feet high and had loopholes.
"All the more reason for putting an end to his little game, I should say," was the cheerful reply. "And have the whole neighbourhood either laughing at my wife and Miss Fairclough, or talking scandal about them!" Sir Henry retorted. "I forgot that," his friend confessed ruminatively. "He's a gentlemanly sort of fellow, from what I hear, but a rotten spy. What do you want done with him?"
Tutt said ruminatively that after all the only things that really counted were loyalty and courage and kindness, and that a little human sympathy extended even in what sometimes seemed at first glance the wrong direction often did more good made more for real happiness than the most efficient organized charity.
He expectorated ruminatively. "Well, anyway, I got me some bran' new socks, an' they're paid for, thank God!" He tilted his old Stetson down over his right eye at his favorite, Caseyish angle, stuck his hands in his pockets and strolled out into the sunshine. "At that," said Bill, grinning a little, "you'll know as much as the average garage-man.
He used a lot of flowery language, but I guess, boiled down, it meant start at the bottom of the ladder. Build yourself up, the way my father did," with a certain wistful pride. "You remember him?" Her head moved. "Fine looking, wasn't he?" ruminatively. "He got there with his hands and brains, and honestly. While I hadn't ever used either.
Lester sat down in his easy-chair by the window after his brother had gone and gazed ruminatively out over the flourishing city. Yonder was spread out before him life with its concomitant phases of energy, hope, prosperity, and pleasure, and here he was suddenly struck by a wind of misfortune and blown aside for the time being his prospects and purposes dissipated.
"'What shall it profit a man," quoted the veteran ruminatively. "You know the rest." "No," returned Banneker decidedly. "That won't do. These fellows here haven't sold their souls." "Or lost 'em. Maybe not," admitted the elder. "Though I wouldn't gamble strong on some of 'em. But they've lost something." "Well, what is it? That's what I'm trying to get at." "Independence.
At first their host made no reply to this entreaty, but gazed ruminatively off into space. At last he spoke. "I suppose you boys think," he said, "that this country is pretty wild and uncivilized. But take my word for it, it is so tame now that it eats out of your hand compared to what it once was.
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