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He clambered ponderously into the trap; leaned out sideways, and only then wondered wheezily what on earth Captain Whalley could have been doing with himself of late. They had had no sight of each other for years and years till the other day when he had seen him unexpectedly in the office. What on earth . . . Captain Whalley seemed to be smiling to himself in his white beard.
As he left the palace yard he passed a curtained two-wheeled cart drawn by small humped bulls, and turned his head in time to see the high priest of Jinendra heave his bulk out from behind the curtains and wheezily ascend the palace steps. "A little ghostly consolation for the maharajah's sins!" he muttered, as he headed toward his own quarters for another stiff glass of brandy and some sleep.
Why SHOULDN'T his wife be well? "Quite well, thank you," he said at the end of a deep exhalation. Indeed he was quite without breath when he came to the "thank you." It would have been better if he hadn't tried to be so courteous. "Quite well," would have been sufficient. He realised, as he wheezily filled his lungs, that the "thank you" was entirely superfluous.
"He that takes my life," he seemed to be saying, wheezily, to himself, "takes trash: But he that takes the Daily Telegraph !" But this awful contingency I did not face. No one noticed me in the least, as I quietly took a chair and sat down to watch them. When the needle-work had been unfolded, and they were all ready to begin, their mother said "Come, that's done, at last!
It had evidently not been occupied for many years; the kansamah looked like a gray-bearded skeleton compressed within a tightened shroud of parchment skin that shone where a coffin or a tomb had touched it. He seemed to have forgotten what the bungalow was for, or that a sahib needed things to eat, until the ex-risaldar enlightened him, and then he complained wheezily.
Gibbs, staring still more widely, and slowly retreating 'and he never lettin' me post a letter since he came here not once no confidence nowhere and I'm sure I have been his good friend! Phoebe moved towards the staircase. 'Is Mr. Fenwick's room on the first floor or the second? Lost in protesting wonder, Mrs. Gibbs wheezily mounted the stairs far enough to point to the door of Fenwick's room.
"We are not likely to be interrupted," he said wheezily, "but it never does to chance anything. Shall we cover the window? A light in this room is unusual " "Yes, let us cover it." "Poker" John chafed at the delay. "No one is likely to come this way, though." Lablache looked about for something which would answer his purpose. There was nothing handy. He drew out his great bandanna and tried it.
"We'll beat them, I suppose," Dick replied, with a manner almost of indifference. "One can never be positive in advance, but I'd like to own your claim to the estate, Mr. Gordon," laughed the lawyer wheezily. "Think we'll be able to wolf the real owners out of their property all right, do you?" Fitt's smile went out like the flame of a burnt match.
The archduke cursed his equerry wheezily but in the German tongue, and bade the chauffeur get into the car and drive to the Grange as fast as petrol could take him. Sir Maurice bade Miss Lambart good-by, saluted the archduke, and the car went bumping down the turfed aisle. Once in the road the chauffeur, anxious to make trial at an early moment of the archducal hospitality, let her rip.
There were steps on the plank that led to the shore. A shawl over her head and a big bundle under her arm, the old woman came up to them, panting wheezily. She looked from one to the other, trying to make out their faces in the dark. "It's a danger...like that...youth," she muttered between hard short breaths. "Did you find the clothes?" asked Andrews in a casual voice. "Yes.
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