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By the time that Eph had cast loose from moorings Jack signaled for slow speed ahead, and the grim-looking little Benson moved on out of the harbor. Once out of the harbor Captain Jack rang, successively, for two higher speeds. The "Benson" answered both like a charm. "The gasoline part of the craft is working all right," declared the youthful skipper to Eph, who had come up into the tower.
With an excruciating jerk the cab drew up before a somewhat grim-looking house; Had he arrived at the himmel he had just been speaking of, the traveler could not have given an exclamation of greater relief. He crawled up the steps, overruled some question on the part of the servant, and was shown into a brightly lighted room.
His face was set now; he spoke not a word, and even through his glove his hand was cold to the touch. Then, presently, they were at the big, grim-looking hospital with the characteristic odour, so suggestive to the senses of the tragedies which take place there night and day, meeting them at the very portal.
The postilion blew his horn the horses started; gayly resounded the tones of the silver bells; with a light whizzing, away flew the sledge over the snow. It bore thence a dethroned emperor and his overthrown family! Rapidly did this richly-laden sledge pass through the streets, but, following it, was a troop of armed, grim-looking soldiers, like unwholesome ravens following their certain booty.
So Joseph dabbled in toxicology, did he? thought Neale in that case, perhaps, there was something in the theory which had been gaining ground during the last twenty-four hours that Hollis had been poisoned first and thrown into the old lead-mine later on. And what of the somebody, Horbury or whoever it was, that lay behind that grim-looking door?
A horn, a lute, and half a dozen tom-toms accompanied the dance. Some distance away, and surrounded by his grim-looking guard, sat Malak, who, though he did not rise to receive me, beckoned me to his side with more politeness than usual. It was a weird, strange sight.
The McMurrough, the O'Beirnes, and two or three strangers grim-looking men who had followed, a glance told him, the trade he had followed formed a group a little apart, yet near enough to be addressed. Asgill was not present, nor Flavia. "Good-morning, again," Colonel John said. And he bowed. "With all my heart, Colonel Sullivan," the priest answered cordially.
The boys are somewhat amused by their grandsire's state, being no doubt familiar with it, but a very grim-looking old lady who sits against the pilot-house, and keeps a sharp eye upon all three, and who is also doubtless familiar with the unhappy spectacle, seems not to find it a joke.
Amidst all these wonders and marvels our fleet car sped on, jolting and lurching violently over ruts, pot-holes and the like until we came to a part of the road where many men were engaged with pick and shovel; and here, on either side of the highway, I noticed many grim-looking heaps and mounds ugly, shapeless dumps, depressing in their very hideousness.
'It was a good large room with big closets, and a bed which might have served for a whole boarding-school, to say nothing of a couple of oaken presses that would have held the baggage of a small army; but what struck Tom's fancy most was a strange, grim-looking, high backed chair, carved in the most fantastic manner, with a flowered damask cushion, and the round knobs at the bottom of the legs carefully tied up in red cloth, as if it had got the gout in its toes.
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