You go into the game with your eyes open," he said, and his banter was highly pleasing to the accused ones.
McCleary turned to Harold, whom he knew only as "Hank," and said: "Hank, you ain't sayin' a word; what're your plans ?" "I'll stay with you as long as you need me." "All right; I'll take care o' you then." Night fell before they came in sight of the city.

They were woefully behindhand and everything delayed them.

After a hundred hesitations succeeded by fierce forward dashes, after switching this way and that, they came to a final halt in a jungle of freight cars, a chaos of mysterious activities, and a dense, hot, steaming atmosphere that oppressed and sickened the men from the mountains.

Lanterns sparkled and looped and circled, and fierce cries arose.

Engines snorted in sullen labor, charging to and fro, aimlessly it appeared.