[Riders of the Silences by Max Brand]@TWC D-Link bookRiders of the Silences CHAPTER 17 5/9
He thought you might want to go along." Her face changed like the moon when a cloud blows across it. She answered with another slow, insolent yawn: "Thanks! I'm staying home tonight." Wilbur glared his rage covertly at Pierre, but the latter was blandly unconscious that he had made any _faux pas_. He said carelessly: "Too bad.
It might be interesting.
Jack ?" At his voice she looked up--a sharp and graceful toss of her head. "What ?" "The girl with the yellow hair." "Then go ahead and see her.
I won't keep you.
You don't mind if I go on sleeping? Sit down and be at home." With this she calmly turned her back again and seemed thoroughly disposed to carry out her word. Red Pierre flushed a little, watching her, and he spoke his anger outright: "You're acting like a sulky kid, Jack, not like a man." It was a habit of his to forget that she was a woman.
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