I've been watching him for years.

You remember how he got round Morrison." He changed front abruptly, as if on parade, and marched off.

The customers at the table exchanged glances silently.

Davidson's attitude was that of a spectator.

Schomberg's moody pacing of the billiard-room could be heard on the veranda.
"And the funniest part is," resumed the man who had been speaking before--an English clerk in a Dutch house--"the funniest part is that before nine o'clock that same morning those two were driving together in a gharry down to the port, to look for Heyst and the girl.