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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Suddenly, as I stood there, bewildered and nervous, making random answers to the landlord, a door below was violently slammed, and directly I caught the horrible reek of which I have told you. "'There! I said to the landlord, and caught his arm, in my turn. 'The Smell! Do you smell it? "He looked at me so stupidly that in a sort of nervous anger, I shook him.
The stale odour of cigarette smoke with which the dim corridor was charged intoxicated, threatened to overpower him. It seemed to be the reek of evil itself. A closing door had a sinister meaning.
He knew his man only through their correspondence, induced by Beth's brother, Glenmore Kent. Inquiring at the bank, he was briefly directed to the largest saloon of the place. When he entered the bar he found it swarming full of men, miners, promoters, teamsters, capitalists, gamblers, lawyers, and the Lord alone knew what. The air was a reek of smoke and fumes of liquor.
It seemed that to open the doors, to fill the room with radiance, must surely kill the mutinous motes which warred upon the tortured body. But in the midst of nature's sovereign charm the reek of the conflict went up; and he wondered whether even the vigor which his outdoor life had built up could withstand the strain another day.
On the farther side lay the turbulent centuries of hazard and bloodshed and piracy, of little ships and indomitable seamen who pursued their voyages in the reek of gunpowder and of legalized pillage by the stronger, and of merchant adventurers who explored new markets wherever there was water enough to float their keels.
They closed in, jostling one another to be first, and the reek of their filthy bodies made us cough. A grimy hand launched out to seize some of the jewels which flashed on Phorenice's breast, and I lopped it off at the elbow, so that it fell at her feet, and a second later we were engaged. "Your back to mine, comrade," cried she, with a laugh, and then drew and laid about her with fine dexterity.
Grasping me by the arm he lurched up the steps, and the two of us presently found ourselves out in the street again. In the growing light the squalor of the district was more evident than ever, but the comparative freshness of the air was welcome after the reek of that room in which the golden idol sat leering, with blood at his feet. "You saw, Harley?" I exclaimed excitedly. "You saw the stains?
And the houses oh, indescribably quaint and curious they were, with their fronts an elaborate lace-work of intricate and beautiful wood-carving, and now and then further adorned with rude pictures of elephants and princes and gods done in shouting colors; and all the ground floors along these cramped and narrow lanes occupied as shops shops unbelievably small and impossibly packed with merchantable rubbish, and with nine-tenths-naked natives squatting at their work of hammering, pounding, brazing, soldering, sewing, designing, cooking, measuring out grain, grinding it, repairing idols and then the swarm of ragged and noisy humanity under the horses' feet and everywhere, and the pervading reek and fume and smell!
But it also became a bitter conflict of personalities between the erstwhile friends. The breach between the two men was afterwards healed, but it was several years after the reek of the battle had drifted away before even formal relations were restored between them. A complicating factor in the campaign was the candidacy of Senator La Follette of Wisconsin.
To his ears came a far-off muffled wail; a wail which held more than unhappiness; a wail which vibrated with real terror. And he knew the voice for Lady's. To his sensitive nostrils, through the intervening distance and the obstructing walls and windows, drifted a faint reek of smoke. Now, the smoke-smell, by itself, meant nothing whatever to Lad.
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