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He reached for a chair, and, seating himself at the opposite side of the table, began to roll a finical cigarette. "Ah, Meester Tansee," he said, with a sultry fire in his silky, black eyes, "I give myself pleasure to see you this evening. Meester Tansee, you have many times come to eat at my table. I theenk you a safe man a verree good friend. How much would it please you to leeve forever?"
"Suppose Bryce Cardigan, he comes around and say 'Why?" Rondeau queried cautiously. "Kill him," the Colonel retorted coolly. "It strikes me you and the Black Minorca are rather slow playing even with young Cardigan." Rondeau grunted. "I theenk mebbe so you kill heem yourself, boss," he replied enigmatically, and hung up.
It was something about you that bewitched me. It must have been your eyes." "Oo, what ees eet you say, señor? You theenk I do not know sometheeng. On the train you tell of the girl who would not marree you the girl who marree the other man. You meet her in the car with Señora Badgaire. I know! I know! She ees the one! You luf her!" "I may as well make a clean breast of it," said Carker.
Queeck, like rabbeet, he run for those automobile, but those automobile she have one leak in the wheel. Señor, thees is the judgment of God. Myself, I theenk the speerit of Don Miguel's father have put the nail where thees fellow can peeck heem up. Well, when hee's nothing for do, hee's got for do sometheeng, eh? Mira!
He continued: "He peench queeck like that. He don' know hee's goin' for peench hees all time queeck like that he don' theenk. But after those boy hee's peench the cheen of those girl, hee's got red in the face like black-bird's weeng. 'Oh, he say, 'I am sky-blue eedete-ot, an' he run away queeck before he forget heemself an' peench those girl some more." John Parker turned gravely to his wife.
But come along-Nay Cranstoun, do not look as if you were afraid to budge an inch without an order in writing I have it in suggestion from Colonel St. Julian, that we go in and do the best we can. "Hoot De Courcy, yer' speerits are so floostersome one would be inclined to theenk ye were not at all soorry to see the white cloot flying on yonder hill "
"Me, I not tell w'at I'm theenk," Luis retorted with a crooning note, and sat down facing her. "Ramon be mad me." Annie-Many-Ponies looked at him, her eyes soft and heavy with that languorous look which will quickest befuddle the sense of a man. "You tell; Ramon not hear," she hinted. "Ramon, he got plenty trobles for thinking about." She smiled again. "Ramon plenty long ways off.
For long time since Don Miguel he's beeg like leetle baby, thees Basque he cannot set the foot on the Rancho Palomar, but to-day, because he theenk Don Miguel don' leeve, theese fellow have the beeg idea she's all right for come to theese rancho. Well, he come." Here Pablo shrugged. "I think mebbeso you tell theese Loustalot Don Miguel have come back. Car-ramba! He is scared like hell.
"It was such a peety," he remarked, "for we did all know perfectly well for I had told them that the inhabitants of Baghdad would destroy us themselves." I asked him what the city was like and if it was safe in peace times. "Oh, it is all the same in the whole country," he said. "It is all unsafe unless you theenk. You must always theenk a lot in this country, and not be in a hurry."
"And I monsieur, I hate zis ongrateful child! I theenk I hate your whole ongrateful race I served your wife like one slave! And for Miss Octavia I was like two slaves! Zis child has ever hated me! I am weary of your whole race I shall go back to ze country where I belong " So there they stood, those two antagonists, the woman with her eyes snapping and the outraged child with the tears streaming.
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