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Updated: May 20, 2025
You don't realize it, but Tom notices it, Perry notices it, it hurts them, it's that they complain of. Hugh!" she cried appealingly, sensing my resentment, forestalling the words of defence ready on my lips.
"It surely had," I assented, with much interest, writing her name eagerly down on a card. "I'll be out to interview you, directly." The woman thanked me and I hung up the receiver. "Say," I exclaimed, hurrying over to the editor's desk, "here's another woman on the wire who says she has received the poisoned kiss. "Suppose you take that assignment," the editor answered, sensing a possible story.
Every nerve was alert now. "This is pure madness. Great heavens! what am I going to do with you?" The seriousness of the situation overpowered him. "Sh!" The warning was caused by the restlessness of the dogs outside. Their quick ears were sensing danger or the coming of their master! Either possibility was equally alarming. "Oh! you do not understand," Nella-Rose was pleading by his knee.
"Mining!" "Oh!" indifferently. Marsh addressed himself to Mr. Wayland: "I told you the commercial opportunities in that country were far greater than those in the mining business. All miners have the same story." Sensing the slight in his tone, rather than in his words, Mildred hastened to the defence of her fiance, nearly causing disaster thereby. "Boyd has something far better than mining now.
But, though he turned from them to the pink-and-white girl at her side, he gave no sign of sensing that he was in any way unwelcome here. He had greeted Virginia casually; she, observing him keenly, understood what Florrie had meant by a man's making love with his eyes. His look, directed downward into the face smiling up at him, was alive with what was obviously a very genuine admiration.
The port door to the chart house was open, latched back against the side. She hesitated for a moment outside the high-beamed threshold hesitated because Captain Newton was not visible. The wheelman was alone. Obliquely she saw Cunningham, Cleve, and a third man seated round a table which was littered. This third man sat facing the port door, and sensing her presence he looked up.
Natural indeed was it then, in such an environment, after talking over the auspicious start of our hunt at Dude Creek, that we should drift to the telling of stories. Sensing this drift I opened the hour of reminiscence and told some of my experiences in the jungle of southern Mexico.
"Let's try a shot, Uncle," she added, sensing deep water ahead. Indolently he picked up a .22 rifle, and rang the bell of her most difficult bull's-eye target eight shots out of ten. He paid her and seemed in nowise elated over her fulsome praise, designed to keep him shooting. He took up his long cane again. "I'll drift up the drag a ways," he said, "and see what's goin' on.
Supposing, she thought, that she owned a hundred acres of this pine land. She forgot Kent and concentrated every force of her mind on sensing what land ownership would mean. And suddenly there woke in her, her racial hunger for land. Suddenly there stirred within her a desire for acreage, for trees, soil, stream and shrub, a wide demesne that should be hers and her children's forever.
And I walked along, thinking of what I had just witnessed; sensing its time value. To those slight and fragile things which had, for John Flint, outweighed the scales of evil a gray moth, a butterfly's wing, a bird's nest I added a child's fair hair, and a rag doll that was going to sleep with its ma.
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