[Colonel Starbottle’s Client and Other Stories by Bret Harte]@TWC D-Link bookColonel Starbottle’s Client and Other Stories CHAPTER II 46/55
"Hallo!" I said. He turned towards me in the like awkward fashion, but with neither astonishment nor concern. "Come up and take a drink with me before you go," I said, "if you're not in a hurry.
I'm alone here, and since I HAVE turned out I don't see why we mightn't have a smoke and a talk together." "I dursn't." I looked up at the six feet of strength before me and repeated wonderingly, "Dare not ?" "SHE wouldn't like it." He made a movement with his right shoulder towards the extension. "Who ?" "Miss Karline." "Nonsense!" I said.
"She isn't in the cabin,--you won't see HER.
Come along." He hesitated, although from what I could discern of his bearded face it was weakly smiling. "Come." He obeyed, following me not unlike Chu Chu, I fancied, with the same sense of superior size and strength and a slight whitening of the eye, as if ready to shy at any moment.
At the door he "backed." Then he entered sideways.
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