[Casey Ryan by B. M. Bower]@TWC D-Link bookCasey Ryan CHAPTER X 20/28
Casey didn't like her any the better for that, or for having accentuated the high-water mark, or for forcing him to apologize to the pretty driver of the limousine. He refilled the water bags and remarked pointedly that it would take an hour for the water to cool in them and that they must be left alone in the meantime.
He did not look at the girl, but from the tail of his eye he saw her pull a contemptuous grimace at him when she thought his back safely turned. Wherefore Casey finished the putting on of the fourth tire pretty well up toward the boiling point in temper and in blood.
I have not mentioned half the disagreeable trifles that nagged at him during the interval,--his audience, for instance, that hovered so close that he could not get up without colliding with one of them, so full of aimless talk that he mislaid tools in his distraction.
Juan was a pest and Casey thought malevolently how he would kill him when the job was finished.
Juan went around like one in a trance, his heavy-lidded, opaque eyes following every movement of the girl, which kept her younger sisters giggling.
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