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Updated: June 9, 2025
Yet Lidgerwood fancied that of the group circling the fire, Flemister was the one whose eyes turned oftenest toward the sheeted figures across the track; sometimes in morbid starings, but now and again with the haggard side-glance of fear. Why was the mine-owner afraid? Lidgerwood analyzed the query shrewdly. Was he implicated in the matter of the loosened rail?
Lady Cecilia had tried to make out the meaning of these extraordinary starings and whisperings Lady Katrine would not tell her any thing distinctly, but said, "Strange reports so sorry it had got into the papers, those vile libellous papers; of course she did not believe of Miss Stanley. After all, nothing very bad a little awkward only might be hushed up.
"Those fine ladies and gentlemen of the town had made my name a by-word," she explained in a low, tense voice, her eyelids lowered. You remember, yourself, sir, the sneers and oglings, the starings and simperings in the park that day when you made your first attempt to champion my cause, inducing the Lady Mary Deller to come and speak to me." "Nay, nay think of these things no more.
Now it must be admitted that, apart from a short look into the valley, and occasional starings at the light out in the weed, I gave little attention to aught but my plans for the great bow, and to such use did I put my time, that when I was relieved, I had each particular and detail worked out, so that I knew very well just what to set the men doing so soon as we should make a start in the morning.
He resolutely avoided the reproachful starings of the members of the Smyrna fire department as they struggled on board. Mr. Butts came last and attempted to say something, but retreated promptly before the Cap'n's fiendish snarl and clicking teeth. "That man there, with the elephant, says he can't leave her," reported Faded Cap to the wondering group on the bridge.
The ears of Cap'n Sproul, buzzing with his emotions, caught only a few words, nor grasped any part of the meaning. But the sonorous "United States of America" chilled his blood, and the word "guilty" made his teeth chatter. He felt an imperious need of getting out of that room for a moment of getting where he could think for a little while, out from under the starings of those three solemn men.
The young man went on his way leisurely; by his gait, by his frequent and somewhat prolonged pauses at shop windows, by his indifferent starings at traffic and pedestrians, it was plain that he had little of moment on his mind. He bought a penny glass of water at a corner kiosk. "Do you mind telling me," he asked the vender, "Who is Colonel Dodd of this city?
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