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Updated: June 28, 2025
She was standing, one hand on the wrapped parcel, the other on her stout cane, peering suspiciously ahead. "Is your Highness ready?" he repeated. "Go on," she said briefly.
'It is no attack, I tell you. It is nothing but a dream, answered Steadman impatiently. 'Yet you were frightened, just as I was, or you would not have got up and dressed, said Hammond, looking at the man suspiciously.
I knew I was putting them in a difficulty, for by this time they must be all aware that Latimer was still on their track, and it was obviously conceivable that my attempted arrest might be due in some way to my connection with them; anyhow I saw that even Savaroff was beginning to regard me a shade less suspiciously. "Have you brought any of the powder with you?" asked McMurtrie.
Nash?" asked the little man suspiciously. "I was thinking of a county policeman who seems to have some extraordinary theories on the subject." "Oh, you mean Wiseman," said Mann, with a grin. "I've interviewed that gentleman. There is a great detective lost in him, Inspector." "It is lost, all right," said the detective laconically.
Furthermore, it seemed to him that it sounded suspiciously like that of Peter Herring, the leading bully of the Academy. He had not had much conversation with the fellow, but what he had had was sufficient to make him remember the voice, and he had a good memory for all voices. "No, I can't send it now. Haven't got any one to send.
"I want you to do whatever will make you happier," he temporized. "If you really needed me there I would come. But you are always so absorbed when you're working, and I am so busy with Baby, that I don't believe we should have much more time together than now." "Neither do I," he agreed, in a tone suspiciously like relief, which she was quick to catch.
The precaution of the commander even went so far as to have the smooth metallic sides of the cars blackened over so that they should not reflect light, and thus become visible to the Martians as shining specks, moving suspiciously among the stars.
In the very middle of it lay a suspiciously yellow pebble, worn round and smooth by the water, and when Rod took it in his fingers he gave a low whistle of mock astonishment as he gazed down into Wabigoon's face. "Wabi, I'm ashamed of you!" he said, trying hard to choke back the quiver in his voice. "Mica doesn't come in round chunks like this. Mica isn't heavy. And this is both!"
In the gray light of the early morning it could be perceived that the poor old horse still lay just as he had fallen; several crows were flitting about, not yet venturing to attack the miserable carcass, peering at it suspiciously from a respectful distance, as if they feared some hidden snare.
How long the night seemed! Would day never dawn again? She heard the telegraph operator whistling at his work, and as she re-entered the waiting-room, she saw the ticket agent standing in his office. "What time is it?" "Half-past two o'clock. I might as well have locked up as usual, for after all, you did not stay here." "Yes I did." He eyed her suspiciously.
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