With a cry of delight, unheard in the engine drone, Dick took the powerful glasses from his eyes, passed them to Sandy and then rubbed his hands vigorously to rid them of the chill of the high altitude.
As I live and breathe! Mr. Everdail slapped his thigh. I forgot all about our birthday dinner and cruise for Sandy.Brewster told him. "It is Mr. Lawton, of the Circle K Ranch."
ONE:His library, that evening, made Sandy think of a mass meeting of creditors or stockholders who have been tricked.
ONE:Because it had been supposed that the ghostJeffor whoever it was, would use that means of getting in, Dicks own position had been chosen. He had selected a place sharply diagonal in direction from it. In his corner he could not be seen in the beam of a flashlight from the small cupboard unless its user came all the way out: otherwise the sides would shape the path of the light so it would not come near him.
TWO:A shout greeted the advent of an automobile on a shore drive. As it swung around a curve, close to the water, its bright headlights fell in a sweeping line across the waterand picked out a round, white dot bobbing, vividly lit, in the rays.
Sandy and Dick, standing by the airplane on the beach, whirled to see a short, stoutish man in regulation flying togs come unexpectedly into view from behind an inshore hillock of sand."You remember that woman," Cairness went on, making and rolling adroitly a straw-paper cigarette, "the one who was cook on the ranch for so long? She could tell us what it is, and I'll bet on it."When the sun was at midheaven, and the shadows of the pines beyond the clearing fell straight, the [Pg 35]clanging of a triangle startled the mountain stillness. The Mexicans dropped their tools, and the white teamster left a mule with its galled back half washed.Whoever got it cant be far off, interrupted Dick. No one but Miss Serena and Captain Parksand we threeknew about the hiding place until the last part of the meeting.Dick, scribbling hurriedly, passed a note to Sandy, who read it in the light of the flash, and then passed both paper and light to Jeff.
