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Page 12
... stopped short , and exclaimed in faltering accents : " I say ! You aren't joking , Heyst ? " 66 Joking ! " " Heyst's blue eyes went hard as he turned them on the discomposed Morrison . In what way , may I ask ? " he continued with ...
... stopped short , and exclaimed in faltering accents : " I say ! You aren't joking , Heyst ? " 66 Joking ! " " Heyst's blue eyes went hard as he turned them on the discomposed Morrison . In what way , may I ask ? " he continued with ...
Page 35
... stopped to consider , or he couldn't have done it . No sane man . How is a thing like that to go on ? What's he going to do with her in the end ? It's madness . " " You say that he's mad . Schomberg tells us that he must be starving on ...
... stopped to consider , or he couldn't have done it . No sane man . How is a thing like that to go on ? What's he going to do with her in the end ? It's madness . " " You say that he's mad . Schomberg tells us that he must be starving on ...
Page 36
... stopped at the door , deep in his simplicity . " I am sorry you won't tell me anything about my friend's absence , " he said . he said . " My friend Heyst , you know . I suppose the only course for me now is to make inquiries down at ...
... stopped at the door , deep in his simplicity . " I am sorry you won't tell me anything about my friend's absence , " he said . he said . " My friend Heyst , you know . I suppose the only course for me now is to make inquiries down at ...
Page 37
... stopped . 66 Yes , rather . " His feelings were , he told us , those of bewildered resignation ; but of course that was no more visible to the others than the emotions of a turtle when it withdraws into its shell . " It seems ...
... stopped . 66 Yes , rather . " His feelings were , he told us , those of bewildered resignation ; but of course that was no more visible to the others than the emotions of a turtle when it withdraws into its shell . " It seems ...
Page 41
... stopped his engines , and lowered a boat . He went himself in that boat , which was manned , of course , by his Malay seamen . Heyst , when he saw the boat pulling toward him , dropped his signalling - pole ; and when Davidson arrived ...
... stopped his engines , and lowered a boat . He went himself in that boat , which was manned , of course , by his Malay seamen . Heyst , when he saw the boat pulling toward him , dropped his signalling - pole ; and when Davidson arrived ...
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