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The door was open and he could see inside. Sawdust covered the floor, and the tables and chairs were old and rickety. The men inside were the same as those he had seen on the street, tough-looking, hard, steely-eyed. Tom looked at the faded sign over the door. "That says Bad Sam's," he protested. "Used to be called Bad Sam's," replied the driver.
The town was full of them. Then there were the big, high-powered scouting cars driven by steely-eyed, wiry, cold-blooded young men from Pennsylvania and New York. These young men had no women-folk with them. Held conferences in smoke-filled rooms at the Okmulgee Hotel.
From feet to head he was perfect. Then, slightly crouching, he drew his revolver from the holster and held it forward from the hip, wrist and forearm rigidly straight. "Throw up your hands!" He uttered the grim words in a low tone, but one facing him would not have been deceived by low tones. Steely-eyed, grim of face, relentless in all his bearing, the most desperate adversary would have quailed.
Certainly, between this pink-faced clergyman, with his deceptively mild appearance, and the gaunt, bronzed and steely-eyed Burmese commissioner, there was externally little in common; but it was some little nervous trick in his carriage that conjured up through the smoke-haze one distant summer evening when Smith had paced that very room as Eltham paced it now, when before my startled eyes he had rung up the curtain upon the savage drama in which, though I little suspected it then, Fate had cast me for a leading rôle.
Now tell us all about it just what you said and just what he said and just what talk there was back and forth." "Gosh-all-Hemlock!" spluttered Billy, not yet equal to his best narrative style. We waited. He drew a dozen long breaths before he was again the cold, self-possessed, steely-eyed avenger.
"Cadets Manning and Astro left their posts without leave, sir," reported the stocky little spaceman. Captain Strong took an involuntary step forward, his face drained of all color. Connel looked at him, steely-eyed. "Did you hear that, Strong?" he growled. Strong nodded. "I I did," he stammered. "So those two idiots not only stole a rocket scout, but they left their posts."
The men who operated the stage line knew the risk they were taking in that unbroken country, but they were of the type that could look danger in the face and laugh. The two steely-eyed men on the coach box, this gray morning, were samples of the breed. Inside the vehicle were four passengers. Three of them were men past middle life miners and cattlemen.
Certainly, between this pink-faced clergyman, with his deceptively mild appearance, and the gaunt, bronzed, and steely-eyed Burmese commissioner, there was externally little in common; but it was some little nervous trick in his carriage that conjured up through the smoky haze one distant summer evening when Smith had paced that very room as Eltham paced it now, when before my startled eyes he had rung up the curtain upon the savage drama in which, though I little suspected it then, Fate had cast me for a leading role.
Not only that, but I heard him calling up the other planters telling them what happened and every one of them is chipping in to rebuild my plantation." Connel looked at the planter steely-eyed. "So you think it was done by a bunch of kids, huh?" Sinclair nodded. "Wouldn't be surprised if they're not scared too!" "Well, you are entitled to your opinion, Mr. Sinclair.
I've been here now fully three-quarters of an hour! A most unheard-of method of doing business, I should say!" Presently our stern, steely-eyed host returned. He seemed to be going somewhere, to be nowise interested in us.
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