The latter saw in his eyes what his lips kept silent.

The officer held something in his hand.

It was the mysterious package which Captain Plum had taken his oath to deliver to the president of the United States.
"I don't dare move until the surgeon comes," said the lieutenant.

"He wants to speak to you.

I believe, if he has anything to say you had better hear it now." His last words were in a whisper so low that Nathaniel scarcely heard them.