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Before him still the picture floated. He disavowed it, disowned it. Yet there it was, the child of his fancy, the first-born of the morning, the fruit of his concentrated thought, and as, surprisedly, he considered it, it took on such semblances of legitimacy, that the disavowals ceased. Then, slowly disintegrating, its consistence lessened. It was departing, vaporously as it had come.
So I told Florence she could do as she pleased, but I was for home and the trolley. I guess I could have made it with a life-preserver," she laughed. Hal was surprisedly conscious of a rasp of anger within him. "You ought not to put yourself into such a position," he declared. She threw him a covert glance from the corner of her sparkling eyes.
But he feared laughter would overclimb speech; and, indeed, with all expression of sympathy stifled, he did not succeed so completely in hiding the conflicting emotion but that Joseph did once turn his pale, grave face surprisedly, hearing a snuffling sound, suddenly stifled in a drawer of corks.
But before they had quitted the foyer an interruption came in the shape of a shrewd-looking gentleman in evening dress, who wore his opera hat at a rakish angle and seemed to be very much at home as he strolled about, hands in pockets, looking around him at all and sundry. He suddenly caught sight of Gilling, smiled surprisedly and expansively, and came forward with outstretched hand.
"If I had some alcohol I might backen it," observed Han. "Alcohol? Backen what?" "The ivy poison." "Oh! Well, there's plenty of alcohol on board. Wonder what time it is," Perry drew out his watch and whistled surprisedly. "Only a quarter to ten, Han! We couldn't have walked very far, after all. And they won't signal us until ten-thirty. Here, I'm going this way."
Did you know that Mollie had paid me a visit this evening? or perhaps you saw her; I think she went out as you came in." "Mollie!" he said, surprisedly; and then looking half annoyed, or at least a trifle disturbed, he added, as if a sudden thought had occurred to him, "then it was Mollie, Chandos spoke of." "Chandos!" echoed Dolly. "Who is Chandos and what did Chandos say about Mollie?"
"Locating a mineral claim, are you?" "Not yet," the other replied; "I ain't located any mineral to claim yet. I'll come to you for a permit as soon as I do. But I'm lookin' for Burns's lost mine." "You don't believe in that old yarn, surely?" questioned the other surprisedly. "Would I be lookin' for it if I hadn't doped it out that it was there?" "Where?" "Oh, somewheres around here.
I craned from the window. Smith grabbed my arm. "Don't lean out," he said. I drew back, glancing at him surprisedly. "For Heaven's sake, why not?" "I'll tell you presently, Petrie. Did you see him?" "I did, and I can't make out what he is doing. He seems to have remained standing at the gate for some reason." "He has seen it!" snapped Smith. "Watch those elms."
"Then you haven't heard anything here?" looking from one to the other, surprisedly. "Nothing save what you are hearing now, the clatter of many tongues and plates. Why, my son?" "Oh! nothing, only there has just been a pretty sharp scrimmage outside.
I clearly perceive, now, that without being aware of the fact I have nevertheless been concerned in the case for at least a week." Dunbar stared surprisedly, but offered no comment. "A fortnight ago," Stuart continued, "I found myself in the neighbourhood of the West India Docks. I had been spending the evening with a very old friend, chief officer of a liner in dock.
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