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Kate had looked surprised that, as a matter of taste on such an adventurer's part, Densher shouldn't see it. But Densher was lost in another thought. "Do you mean that when, turning up myself, I found him leaving her, that was what had been taking place between them?" "Didn't you make it out, my dear?" Kate enquired.
Even as Danglar had been speaking she had realized that, for the Adventurer's own sake, and irrespective of what any premature disclosure of her own identity to the authorities might mean to her, she could not call upon the police for aid.
The Adventurer's tender bobbed about at the stern and the first person Perry set eyes on as he scrambled onto the bridge deck was Han. Perry fixed him with a scathing gaze. "Where," he demanded, "did you get to, idiot?" "Oh, I'll tell you about that," answered Han. "You see I was afraid about that poison-ivy and so I took a dip in the ocean. And " "But I called you and called!"
He extracted a slip of cardboard and, at arm's length, laid it on the table-edge beneath the adventurer's eyes. The latter, bewildered, bent over it for a moment, breathing heavily; then straightened back, shook himself, laughed shortly with a mirthless note, and faced the detective. "It's come with you now, I guess?" he suggested very quietly.
To a cur, I suppose it is necessary to add that, even if I did know, I should take pleasure in seeing you damned before I told you." Danglar's face was like a devil's. His revolver held a steady bead on the Adventurer's head. "I'll give you a last chance." He spoke through closed teeth. "I'll fire when I count three. One!" A horrible fascination held Rhoda Gray.
"I have seen something of men in my time. In which category do you place your cousin, Mr. Temple?" "If a love of travel and excitement and danger constitutes an adventurer, Mr. Temple is such," I said. "Fortunately the main spur of the adventurer's character is lacking in his case. I refer to the desire for money. Mr.
In the evening's gathering dusk the train steamed into Jersey City; and Spenser and Susan Lenox, with the adventurer's mingling hope and dread, confidence and doubt, courage and fear, followed the crowd down the long platform under the vast train shed, went through the huge thronged waiting-room and aboard the giant ferryboat which filled both with astonishment because of its size and luxuriousness.
Then all three smiled and bowed. It was one of those foolish little comedies utterly unnecessary, curiously pleasant that occur twenty times a day in Parisian life. Involuntarily the adventurer's heart warmed to the pallid clerk and to the dirty hotel porter.
Danglar's life, or the Adventurer's! But she shrank from taking life. Her lips were breathing a prayer. They had called her a crack shot back there in South America, when she had hunted and ridden with her father.
I know my men said no one had arrived at the ranch in a suit like these we've got on but, hell, if his whole asteroid's invisible, why couldn't he make his space-suit invisible, too?" "I don't think he's done that. Otherwise he would have " The adventurer's level tone raised incisively. "Now, both of you, still! Conceal yourselves with great care Jupiter's rising!"
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