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As for Tim Rokens, who had been in the boat and witnessed the rescue, he stood gazing steadfastly at Glynn without uttering a word, keeping his thumbs the while hooked in the arm-holes of his vest, and his legs very much apart.
I should have taken to my heels in desperate terror, and been ever after faithfully persuaded of having looked upon a veritable ghost. I said to myself that the apparition, if I looked upon it steadfastly, would vanish as I approached, or, more probably, resolve itself into some chance combination of moonlight and shadows.
"Juggler," said he to him, with a terrible countenance, "Thou shalt summon no more ghosts." The Sicilian turned round, looked steadfastly in his face, uttered a loud shriek, and threw himself at his feet. We looked all at once at the pretended Russian. The prince instantly recognized the features of the Armenian, and the words he was about to utter expired on his tongue.
And as they looked amazed, the curtain of the Tent drew open, and one entered, clothed in red from head to foot; and they knew him to be the Scarlet Hunter, the lover of the lost, the Keeper of the Kimash Hills. Looking at them steadfastly he said to Sherah: "Thou has prevailed. To-night, at the setting of the sun, an old man died in Syria who uttered thy name as in a dream when he passed.
Then he looked steadfastly at Dadon, rode at him full gallop, and struck him a sword-blow on the head which, though a light one, cleft his skull, and Dadon fell dead from his horse. Bova ordered the body to be taken up and borne into the city of Anton that Queen Militrisa should herself behold his end.
"It is exceedingly kind of you," I answered, "to give me this warning. I will make my arrangements accordingly." "One thing," Delora said, "would change the course of Fate." "That one thing," I remarked, "being that I should not send this cablegram." "Exactly!" Delora answered, "in which case you will find your banking account the richer by ten thousand pounds." I looked at him steadfastly.
Perhaps, she thought, these things were merely allegorical to him. Perhaps his eyes, fixed so steadfastly upon the distant horizon, were not, as it seemed, following the graceful outline of that grove of dark green pine trees, but were indeed searching back into the corners of his life, measuring up the good and evil of it, asking the eternal question was it worth while?
It was not possible, he told himself steadfastly. And yet Some of the women were following them in a leisurely sort of way behind. Miss Fielding was there, walking a little apart. She carried her hat in her hand. The wind, which was blowing the skirts of her white cloth dress about her, was making havoc in her glorious hair.
"Because when you have arrived at a complete understanding," he declared, "I fear we shall have reached the parting of our ways." She looked steadfastly ahead. "Wouldn't that rather rest with you?" she asked. They passed a flower-barrow wonderfully laden, and she half stopped with a little exclamation. "Oh, I must have some of those white roses!" she begged.
Dominey nodded and turned back into the room to find the doctor, his hands in his old-fashioned breeches pockets, eyeing him steadfastly. "I find it very hard to believe," he said a little curtly, "that you are really Everard Dominey." "I am afraid you will have to accept me as a fact, nevertheless."
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