I shall be there a couple of hours, probably.

We are to have a directorial meeting." "I will tell him." Colonel Preston attended the directors' meeting, and also collected his dividend, amounting to eight hundred dollars.

These, in eight one-hundred-dollar bills, he put in his pocketbook, and returned to the hotel for dinner.
"Dinner is not quite ready, colonel," said the landlord.

"It will be ready in fifteen minutes." "Where is the gentleman who wished to be introduced to me ?" asked Colonel Preston, who thought it would save time to be introduced now.
"I will speak to him." He went directly to a dark-complexioned man with black whiskers, and eyes that were rather sinister in appearance.

The eyes oftenest betray the real character of a man, where all other signs fail.