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"Whom do you expect to find here?" I asked. "It is a recognized meeting-place," said Smith in my ear. "It is almost a certainty that some of the Fu-Manchu group use it at times." Curiously I surveyed all these faces which were visible from the spy-hole. My eyes rested particularly upon the two Chinamen. "Do you recognize anyone?" I whispered. "S-sh!"
"Why, didn't you ask him?" "Oh, tell me, or say you won't," Barry burst out angrily. "Of course I asked him. He said not. Gordon's a liar!" "S-sh!" she soothed, laying a cool hand on Barry's heated forehead. He failed to catch the look of pain his words brought into her eyes, or he must have cringed with shame. "This is not like you, Captain Barry, to say such things behind one's back."
Chaikin thought they had been invited by me, and when she discovered that they had not there was a suppressed row, she calling upon them to leave the box and they nonchalantly refusing to stir from their seats, pleading that they meant to stay only as long as there was no one else to occupy them. Our box was beginning to attract attention. There were angry outcries of "'S-sh!" "Shut up!"
Followed a moment of suspense, then came the crashing of brush as Clanton moved after him. "S-sh! Ride softly, Jim. We don't want 'em to hear us an' get away." "Tha's right. Tha's sure right. You said somethin' then, Billie. But they'll not get away. Haven't I slept on their trail four years? They're mine at last." Prince was drawing him farther from the road. But the danger was not yet over.
Like Hocken's ducks, all of 'ee never happy unless you be where you baint. . . . I wonder if that Hocken was any relation S-sh! now! Talk of the devil!" Captain Cai and Fancy had spent a good hour-and-a-half in overhauling the two cottages. Their accommodation was narrow enough, but Captain Cai, after half a lifetime on shipboard, found them little short of palatial.
"First, sir, because they're a-vaiting for you at t'other end o' the alley, and second, because v'en they see us go this vay they'll think they've got us sure and sartin, and follow according, and third, because at a certain place along by the River I've left Corporal Dick and four o' my specials, d'ye see. S-sh! Qviet now! Oblige me with your castor your 'at, sir."
He worked me up to a veritable frenzy of penitence "I will, I will," I said, tremulously. "And if I ever catch myself looking at a woman again I will gouge out my eyes like Rabbi Mathia." "'S-sh! Don't say that, my son." About a quarter of an hour later, as I sat reading by myself, I suddenly sprang to my feet and walked over to Reb Sender "You are so dear to me," I gasped out.
And then he looked on while they played games hide-and-seek, and duck-on-the-rock, and follow-my-leader, and ever so many others. Now and then old Mr. Crow flew up and tried to talk with Major Monkey. But the Major had very little to say. And at last Mr. Crow lost all patience with him. "Are you going to sit here all day and do nothing?" Mr. Crow demanded. "S-sh!" Major Monkey said. "Do be quiet!
Already some of the crews had landed near the fire; but others were coming down-stream, hugging the banks for safety, or, maybe, having a last look for the Englishmen. "It is Muata!" cried Venning, in a joyous whisper. "Muata and his jackal. What luck!" "S-sh!"
"No," said Van, "this young lady was engaged only last evening." "S-sh," said Señora Payson, pointing to the open window, "Papa may hear you." Pocahontas, Freshman. "But when they lookt round for the Ladye Pocahontas, she hadde gone to her Yorke woodes, weepyng they saye."
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