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The little boy reached down lovingly, and patted the dog, sitting in a rigid attitude of expectancy by his side. As the child turned the light of his countenance on those adoring dog eyes, the animal broke from his tenseness into a wriggling fever of joy. "'Oh, my God, my dear little God!" quoted Marise to herself, watching uneasily the animal's ecstasy of worship.
Yet all three animals were keyed to a tenseness of living that was almost painful, and scarcely ever would it come to them to be more alive than they were then in their seeming petrifaction. One Eye moved slightly and peered forth with increased eagerness. Something was happening. The porcupine had at last decided that its enemy had gone away.
The chirography was the same as that upon the note of the racing-car episode. Shirley locked up the missive in his cabinet, and smiled at the increasing tenseness of the situation. "The writer of these two notes may have an opportunity to leave town himself before long, to rest his nerves in the quiet valley of the Hudson, at Ossining.
"My name" in the tenseness of the dark the words seemed to carry added mystery "is Pardaloe." "Where from?" "My home is southwest of the Superstition Mountains." "You've got a brother Joe Pardaloe?" suggested de Spain to trap him. "No, I've got no brother. I am just plain Jim Pardaloe." "Say what you have got to say, Jim."
The keys began to click rapidly, and they began to feel a tenseness in the air of the room. After a few seconds they would not have been surprised if they had seen a flash of lightning pass over their heads. The Flying Fish had sunk to the bottom of the tank, and backed into one of the corners. The keys of the machine clicked louder and faster.
And now the money is my own. I bought a yacht, and I have lived on the water. I can't get enough of it. I think that I am making up for all that my father and my grandfather denied themselves." I can't in the least describe to you how he said it. There was a tenseness, almost a fierceness, in his brilliant blue eyes. Yet he finished up with a little laugh.
She was rarely abrupt, and her words startled Ledyard into alertness. He got up and drew his chair close to hers. "What did you say?" he whispered, keeping his eyes upon her lowered face. "I said Dick is not my son." "And whose is he may I ask?" There was a tenseness in the question.
Among them floated two ducks, white bellies to the sky. This was all Bobby had time to observe for the moment. "Mark!" warned Mr. Kincaid behind him. A tremendous tenseness fell on the world. Bobby's muscles stiffened to the point of aching. The limited vista bounded on right and left by the sidewise movement of his eyeballs, and above by the brim of his cap contained nothing.
There was no need to question the seriousness of the moment; it brooded in the tenseness of the atmosphere, in the speed with which his heart beat, in the drawn face of the man who never ceased his measured tread up and down the narrow room.
The tenseness of the situation was not relieved by the return of Waldon with Edwards. Waldon seemed to realize without knowing just what it was, that something was about to happen. He drove his boat back to the Lucie again in record time. This was Kennedy's turn to be reticent.
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