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Gryce's fingers were drumming out on the table-top. It was infinitesimal in length, but it gave Sweetwater courage to add: "Then, I hear that he wishes to marry a rich girl and shrinks from proposing to her on account of his small salary." "What has that got to do with it?" "Nothing so far as I can see. I am only elaborating the meager report lying there under your hand. But I recognize my folly.
She has succeeded in thawing him into a thin trickle of parochial talk, when mother bends her laced and feathered head in distant signal from the table-top, and off we go.
It will blister and frizzle up the surface, then we can rub off the top gently with a cloth, and you'll see what you will see." "The fellow who painted this table-top didn't spare his colours," said the dealer half an hour later, "and that's all the better for us. See, it comes off like a skin" and he worked away tenderly with a soft flannel.
To the West, some ten miles distant, a line of cliffs running North and South, with sand-ridges beyond, and a plain of spinifex between; to the North of the cliffs an isolated table-top hill, showing out prominently this I named Mount Cornish, after my old friend and tutor in days gone by.
Orme put his hand to the back of the drawer. There was a space between it and the table-top. Cautiously he pushed his hand through the opening. His fingers touched a flat object a pad of paper, or the thought made his heart beat a large, thick envelope. Could Arima have used the drawer as a hiding-place?
A girl with russet, purple-shadowed hair mounted to her table-top and began to dance thereon. "Sacré nom de Dieu! Come down off there!" cried the head-waiter. "Stop that music!"
All yours if you can tell me what I want to know." A golden twenty-dollar coin rolled free, shone with its virgin newness and lay on the table-top, gleaming its lure into the covetous old eyes. Another followed it and another. King regretted that there were not more, that the parcel contained banknotes for the most part. He began counting it out. "There's one thousand dollars.
There was the insistent ticking of a clock and the soft shushing sound of a tape recorder. He stared at the machine, running on fast rewind, and reversed it to play. But the tape seemed to be blank, or erased. He crushed the cigarette out on a table-top where other butts lay in disorder. It looked wrong, and his mind leaped up in sudden frantic fear, before he could calm it again.
The gem lay between them like a splash of crimson flame. "We must have made a Rembrandt-like picture" to quote the young man again "the two of us bending over this table by the light of a solitary candle. There was a wan reflection of the flame from the polished table-top, but elsewhere all was darkness and the shadows crowded in close.
The bowl occupied one side of the picture, and the other side was given up to a meaningless expanse of table-top. The artist had perceived, but apparently too late, the bad balance of the composition, and had endeavoured to redress this by a few more flowers thrown loose upon the table.
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