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"Time!" exclaimed Perry. "Well, how long were you gone from Anoroc before we picked you up in the Sojar Az?" That was a puzzler, and I had to admit it. I didn't know how much time had elapsed and neither did Perry, for time is nonexistent in Pellucidar. "Then, you see, David," he continued, "I had almost unbelievable resources at my disposal.
I can get you a berth in my ship, if you're willin' to take a trip to the whale-fishery of the South Seas." "And who will look after my mother when I'm away?" said I. The sailor looked perplexed at the question. "Ah, that's a puzzler," he replied, knocking the ashes out of his pipe. "Will you take me to your mother's house, lad?" "Willingly," said I, and, jumping up, I led the way.
It's right in line with that other puzzler of yours, the more-you-like-me-the-less-you-want-to-marry-me one. Well, you've just got to explain, that's all." His arms went around her and held her closely, and this time she did not resist. Her head was bowed, and he had not see her face, yet he had a premonition that she was crying.
Such a straightforward question was rather a puzzler to Clorinda, so she answered with a stately air: "Der's questions I couldn't answer eben ter my most intemancies don't press it, Victy."
Having relieved his mind of this observation, the seaman proceeded to cut down some tobacco, and looked remarkably grave and solemn as if "it" were not only a puzzler but an alarmingly serious puzzler. "Yes, it's the biggest puzzler as ever I comed across," said he, filling his pipe for John, when not roused, got on both mentally and physically by slow stages.
Diverging a little and hailing them, he drew them away from the spot where Lawrence and his man still lay bound. "Das a puzzler, massa," gasped Quashy, who had been rendered almost speechless by surprise, "if de bu'stin'-power what's in my heart just now would on'y go into my muscles, I'd snap dem ropes like Samson."
Why, you ought to sit down and consider of it, which means you should begin at the beginnin'; an' let me tell you, it's harder to find the beginnin' of a puzzler than p'raps you suppose.
"It will be a puzzler for you to cry small," was her rather feeble retort, as she passed out. Hermon came back and reseated himself in the big arm chair. "May I stay?" he asked, and Lorraine answered: "Yes, do," in the frank spirit she had told herself must be her attitude towards him.
"I thought you was." "I am but not straight." "Huh?" Rack Slimson wrinkled his forehead at this. "We're goin' in town from the side," explained Racey Dawson. This, too, was a puzzler. "Why?" queried Rack Slimson. "So's nobody will know we're coming till we're there." The smile with which Racey garnished his answer was chilling to the soul of Mr. Slimson. "But I don't see " "You wouldn't.
When he reached the large room he found Swann half conscious and Thesel showing signs of coming to. "Lane, come here," said the Chief, drawing Lane away from the writhing forms on the floor. "You're under arrest." "Yes, sir. What's the charge?" "Let's see. That's the puzzler," replied the Chief, scratching his head. "Suppose we say gambling and fighting." "Fine!" granted Lane, with a smile.
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