Yet fear not--for are we not strong under the Shining One?
And now--leave us." Her hand dropped to the table, and she gave, evidently, a signal, for in marched a dozen or more of the green dwarfs.
"Take these two to their place," she commanded, pointing to us.
The green dwarfs clustered about us.

Without another look at the priestess O'Keefe marched beside me, between them, from the chamber.
And it was not until we had reached the pillared entrance that Larry spoke.
"I hate to talk like that to a woman, Doc," he said, "and a pretty woman, at that.

But first she played me with a marked deck, and then not only pinched all the chips, but drew a gun on me.

What the hell! she nearly had me--_married_--to her.

I don't know what the stuff was she gave me; but, take it from me, if I had the recipe for that brew I could sell it for a thousand dollars a jolt at Forty-second and Broadway.
"One jigger of it, and you forget there is a trouble in the world; three of them, and you forget there is a world.