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I've information of some importance about detecting those beams before they strike." The tinny voice said hastily that Lockley should speak to the general himself. There were clickings and a long wait. Lockley shook his head impatiently. When a new voice spoke, he said, "I'm at Serena. I was brought here by a Wild Life Control trailer-truck which picked us up just outside the Park.
"Won't you tell me who you were on the earth-plane?" "I was a friend of the father of the instrument," he answered. The horn returned to the table quietly, and young Howard was the first to speak. "That is a fine piece of ventriloquism, any way you look at it," said he. "It is a nice trick to give that peculiar tinny sound to a whisper." Smiley has not moved, nor uttered a sound.
Is there still the piano? with the tinny treble, indeed, the whole atmosphere, was it not tinny? You agree with me? I have not forgotten. I am not even afraid to remember, you perceive it? A new idea seemed to strike him, born, perhaps, of my continued silence. 'You look English, is it possible that you are not English? What are you then French? We shall see!
"You will be seen, Pa," she cried. "How can you be so reckless?" He stayed at the top of the passage, holding open the door that she might have light. When she reached the sidewalk, there was Ned standing beside the horses, and the carriage empty. "Ned!" "Yass'm, Miss Jinny." "Where's Mr. Clarence?" "He done gone, Miss Tinny." "Gone?" "Yass'm.
We ducked again with startled celerity just before reaching the wood. This time it was a short-range shell from one of our own guns there was no mistaking the wheezy, tinny sound of its passage through the air. It fell in front of us on the edge of the road, and delivered its shrapnel as vengefully as if it had fallen in the Boche lines.
There, too, were the music rooms, with their old, second-hand pianos, some with rattling keys and tinny sound, on which we were supposed to play our scales and exercises for an hour, though we often slyly indulged in the 'Russian March, 'Napoleon Crossing the Rhine, or our national airs, when, as slyly, Mr.
So Joe and Sally saw the pushpots in a new aspect: blunt metal slugs with gaping mouths which were their air scoops. The tinny music from below cut off. Somebody began an oration.
The fields swept up to it, past it. It was unprotected and unprotecting; there was no dignity in it nor any hope of greatness. Only the tall red grain-elevator and a few tinny church-steeples rose from the mass. It was a frontier camp. It was not a place to live in, not possibly, not conceivably. The people they'd be as drab as their houses, as flat as their fields. She couldn't stay here.
"You will be seen, Pa," she cried. "How can you be so reckless?" He stayed at the top of the passage, holding open the door that she might have light. When she reached the sidewalk, there was Ned standing beside the horses, and the carriage empty. "Ned!" "Yass'm, Miss Jinny." "Where's Mr. Clarence?" "He done gone, Miss Tinny." "Gone?" "Yass'm.
Like all cars which have been spending a considerable time in secluded inaction, it did not start readily. At each application of Billie's foot on the self-starter, it emitted a tinny and reproachful sound and then seemed to go to sleep again. Eventually, however, the engines began to revolve and the machine moved reluctantly out into the drive. "The battery must be run down," said Billie.
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