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...offered to kill the officer for her. She realized that, because she pitied him, she must kill him herself. The next time he rapped she looked down at the big-bladed shears that lay beside her knitting. She picked them up and held them like a knife. Then she hid them in her dress and blew out the lamp. Tonder rapped impatiently. "I'm coming, Lieutenant," she called as she groped her way in the dark, "I'm coming...
...long Pacific arm which used to be called the Sea of Cortez. They wanted to find out all they could about the sea creatures, especially the teeming invertebrates along the shores-how they changed in numbers, size, form from place to place, how they lived, loved, ate, fought, fled, hid, died...
Postal inspectors took over the letters, hid the rest of their contents under the old rule of sanctity of the mail. Now would begin a probably futile search for the heirs who were rightful owners of the letters and their stamps, some of which might now be worth more than...
...mind only because of its nightmare touches. The conspirators blew open the door of the Palace with a dynamite cartridge which fused the electric lights, and they stumbled about blaspheming in the darkness, passing into a frenzy of cruelty that was half terror. The King and Queen hid in a secret cupboard in their bedroom for two hours, listening to the searchers grow cold, then warm, then cold again, then warm, and at last hot, and burning hot. The weakly King was hard to kill: when they threw him from the balcony they thought him doubly dead from bullet wounds...
Tired of losing money, the State (which owns 72% of the stock) offered to sell the Mullet Line to the Southern Railway. Southern made a survey, found that normal crosstie replacements had been made in only six of the past 26 years, politely declined. State officials hid Southern's survey carefully away and started looking for someone who didn't know any better than to buy the road...