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In the center of the room, under a big nickeled swinging-lamp, a man was dealing faro while the others standing or sitting about him made their bets. A glance told Conniston that the hotel man was playing heavily, his chips and gold stacked high in front of him. "The strange part of it," he thought, as he watched the bartender open his bottle of beer, "is where they get so much money!
And as he came into the circle of light thrown out by the lamp a nickeled star shone for a moment from under his coat, which was carelessly flung back. "Jest rampsin' around, Tommy," he answered, quietly, making himself a cigarette. "Jest seein' what I could see. You fellers keepin' pretty busy, ain't you?" "Yes. Too busy to get into trouble, Bill."
"But what your hurried trip to the office said to me was that you'd gone for the key of the room that led to the roof scuttle." Well, that was reasonable simple enough, too; but, "This room? How did you find it?" She stepped to the open door and placed the tip of a gloved finger on the nickeled naught that marked the panels. "The significant zero again, Mr. Boyne," she laughed.
The one little cylinder of brass within the chamber of his rifle, with the few grains of powder and nickeled lead it held, was the only certain safeguard of the group against death or mangling. All this must have flashed across the Sahib's mind as he leaped from his pony and took stand in the open, sixty steps from where the lion stood roaring and savagely lashing his tail.
We got a car'dge here " "A carriage?" "A victori'," emphasized Tommy. "A victoria! All this on three bucks, Tommy! Well, well! You are the spender, though." "Here's our victori'!" said Tommy proudly. They halted abruptly before an open carriage ... a victoria, indeed: a handsome double victoria, all polished dark wood and blue upholstery and shining nickeled harness, and sleek bay horses.
The development of the kitchen range has been along certain well defined lines, the ornament changed, new parts nickeled, dimensions varied, etc., but it has remained the same old stove. The Walker & Pratt Mfg. Co., of Boston, have made a move towards an entirely different style, in their "Culinet," which is illustrated on this page. It presents many good points.
It contained a narrow iron bedstead, and during the day a small brass cross always lay on the white coverlet; there was a chest of drawers, a minute table on which stood an American nickeled alarum clock; there was one rush-bottomed chair, and the only window looked westwards over the low city wall towards Monteverde, where the powder magazine used to stand before it was blown up.
Eagerly they looked over his shoulder while he examined the strange object he had picked up, almost at the very door leading into the mysterious tunnel. The instrument for such it seemed to be consisted of a shiny, nickeled part, which was what had reflected the moonlight, thus attracting Bud's attention to it.
Susan caught a glimpse, through the plaster ornamentation of the facade, of old Front Office, which seemed to be full of brightly nickeled samples now, and gave back a blinking flash of light to the afternoon sun. "Bathroom fixtures," thought Susan. "He always wanted to carry them!" What a long two years since she had known or cared what pleased or displeased Mr. Brauer!
Coming from the wall was a rather large nickeled tube or pipe which curved over above the glass vessel, and continually allowed drops of water to fall into the globe. From the side of this glass vessel there led a small nickeled pipe which evidently carried away the waste water. Occasionally a little blue flame would appear on the surface of this water, play about, and disappear.
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