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Make him talk?" the low, guttural laugh was not good to hear "Oh, yes! . . . I think between us we could accomplish that all right! . . . Yes-s!" His voice died away in a murmur, a cruel glint flickered in his shadowy eyes, and for a space he remained with folded arms and his head sunk in a sort of brooding reverie. Suddenly, with an effort, he seemed to arouse himself.
"The first business in your colony is conspiracy, the second corruption, the third cruelty." Trirodov gave a stern frown and asked scornfully: "You've had enough time to gather a bouquet of slanders." "Yes-s, I've managed, as you see. Whether they are slanders is quite another matter. I can only say that they fit you somehow.
"Did you know you was locked in?" "Yes-s, I knowed it. Marthy, she locked the door." Jase reached out a bony hand covered with carrot-colored hairs and picked up a shriveling potato with long, sickly sprouts proclaiming life's persistence in perpetuating itself under adverse circumstances. He broke off the sprouts with a wipe of his dirty palm and threw the potato into a heap in the corner.
Dukovski poured himself out a glass of vodka, rose, drew himself up, and said, with sparkling eyes: "Well, learn that the third person, who acted in concert with that scoundrel Psyekoff, and did the smothering, was a woman! Yes-s! I mean the murdered man's sister, Maria Ivanovna!" Chubikoff choked over his vodka, and fixed his eyes on Dukovski. "You aren't what's-its-name?
"You would put your arm around a post, wouldn't you?" he asked with more than his old brusqueness. "Yes-s; but " "But the tide is going out. My own boat will soon be fast. Dinner will grow cold at the hotel, and you are only the longer in dispensing with me. You must consider the other dire alternatives." "Ob, I forgot that you were in danger of losing a warm dinner."
A tall woman in spectacles was coming toward him, sniffing the air a little as she moved. "Have you got any bananas?" "Yes. They nice." He led the way into the shop and reached to the swinging bunch. "You like some?" he said, encouragingly. She sniffed a step nearer. "Too ripe," decisively. "Yes-s. But here and here " He twirled the bunch skilfully on its string. "These not ripe, and these."
Dukovski poured himself out a glass of vodka, rose, drew himself up, and said, with sparkling eyes: "Well, learn that the third person, who acted in concert with that scoundrel Psyekoff, and did the smothering, was a woman! Yes-s! I mean the murdered man's sister, Maria Ivanovna!" Chubikoff choked over his vodka, and fixed his eyes on Dukovski. "You aren't what's-its-name?
"Yes-s but how'n hell did a doctor know about it?" Sorry, the silent, blurted unexpectedly. "Oh, never mind but get dad in. I'll " She ran past them without finishing her sentence and burst incoherently into the presence of an extremely calm little man with gray whiskers and dust on the shoulders of his coat. These details, I may add, formed the sum of Lorraine's first impression of him. "Well!
Does that help any?" "Ah-h," whispered the Jap and drew in his breath sharply with delight. "I might start the boys I might turn them loose on the ship," went on Hovey, "but the time ain't come yet for that. We're too far from the coast. Whatever happens, Kamasura, can you promise me to keep your face shut about the mutiny?" "Yes-s." "Even if they was to tie you up an' feed you the lash?
"Nobody would rustle cattle from a lady, I hope? At any rate, I haven't missed any yet. The folks down in the Cove have, though." "Yes, I heard they had. That breed rode over to see if he could get a line on them. It's hard luck; that Charlie Fox seems a fine, hard-working boy, don't you think?" "Yes-s," said Billy Louise shyly, "he seems real nice."
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