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He noticed how Holman came slinking cautiously up and stood a little while at the door before going in, and how they put Silla to bed. The light from the windows told him, like two dimly-glaring, merciless eyes, that if he came home now, the well-merited sentence of justice would most certainly be carried out. Then the light was put out.
I wouldn't have urged you to get up there if I didn't think you could hang to a limb." "I am acquainted with a number of persons who would look well hanging to a limb," retorted the Professor, as he rubbed his ankles. "Same here," said Holman, unperturbed by the sharp retort. "When I think over their actions, Professor, I wonder how they escaped being suspended from such places.
"You'll be getting wise in a day or two," he murmured. "She said you would when I told her this morning about our conversation of last night." I laughed, and he turned suddenly toward me. "Do you think we'll put in anywhere in the Samoan Group?" "I don't think so," I replied. "Why?" Holman came closer. "If we do I'm going to get the girls ashore and keep them there," he muttered.
And what was it turning back? Nothing. The mine had been gutted of every pound of ore that it would pay to sack and ship, and unless something was done to locate the lost ore body and give some guarantee of future values, well, the Paymaster would have to shut down. Blount considered it soberly, as a business man should, and then he sent for Wiley Holman.
The scenery possessed that singular expectancy that compels one to turn around every few moments to convince one's self that an unfriendly watcher is not immediately in the rear. Still keeping in the shadows, we circled the camp till we were in front of the stone table, but just when I took a step into the moonlight space before it, Holman grasped my arm and drew me back. "Look!" he gurgled.
Leith was certainly not a person that one would take to the moment an introduction was given, but the manner in which the young fellow had imparted his opinion was amusing. But it was evident that I had not guessed wrong when I divined trouble the moment I came over the side of the yacht. Holman caught my coat with his left hand as we turned, and he spoke excitedly.
Holman Sommers sat facing him. He had been writing, and he still held his pencil in his hand. He slowly crumpled the sheet of paper, his vivid eyes lifted to Starr's face. Tragic eyes they were then, for beyond Starr they looked into the stern face of the government he would have defied.
Then a resolution was offered suspending my membership and sending me under guard to the old Capitol prison. Finally two or three of my friends rescued me and business was allowed to proceed. It was the last day of a very long session and those who were not drunk were worn out. When I returned home there was a celebration in honor of the bet Wake Holman had won at my expense.
I had been there in my happy days with Thomas; but the place itself looked strange. I inquired for his father, Farmer Holman. `Dead many a year ago; all the rest gone away; never held up his head since his son went off with that jade who murdered her mistress. Such was the answer I received. The words fell like molten lead upon my brain. I fled away.
And, among the 63 Democrats, who were not only unwilling to declare Alexander Long "an unworthy Member," or to have the Speaker read such a declaration to him in a session of the House, but also refused by their votes even to intimate that his conduct evidenced disloyalty, or gave aid and comfort to the Enemy, were the names of such democrats as Cox, Eldridge, Holman, Kernan, Morrisson, Pendleton, Samuel J. Randall, Voorhees, and Fernando Wood.
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