"YOU say stealing!" "Yes--ten thousand dollars.

You are well disguised here, my little fellow; it is a good business--yours.

Keep it while you can." I think he would have sprung upon her there and then, but that the Quartermaster, who was nearest him, and had been intently watching his face, made a scarcely perceptible movement as if ready to anticipate him.

He caught the officer's eye; caught, I think, in ours the revelation that he had been understood, drew back with a sidelong, sinuous movement, and disappeared in the passage to the kitchen.
I believe we all breathed more freely, although the situation was still full enough of impending possibilities to prevent peaceful enjoyment of our dinner.

As the Editor finished his hurried translation, it was suggested that we ought to warn the unsuspecting escort of Tournelli's threats.