June Jeopardy Author:Inez Haynes Gillmore Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: y JUNE JEOPARDY 59 pipe. Then again he looked at Ebbett and with even greater seriousness. "Smoke?" he offered affably. Ebbett made a vigorous gestur... more »e of refusal. "Drink?" " No." For a moment Jack puffed in silence. But he continued to study his companion. Ebbett was a man whose physical aspect invited and baffled study. His body, big and vigorous- looking, took a score from his years. His hair was white and it pleased him to wear it long, to comb it straight back from his forehead. A casual glance relegated him to a comfortable age in the early forties. A more careful look put him well into middle life. Continued scrutiny discovered him on the verge of actual old age. He sat with his huge head sunk between his broad shoulders and his gigantic trunk crouched down in his big chair, his profile cutting as bold as a blade through the shock of his wiry hair. What, with this attitude and his eyes, expressionless as a pair of pebbles and half covered by their thin wrinkled lids, fixed on the flame of the unshaded student lamp, Jack was incongruously reminded of an enormous condor who, from the shelter of his nictitating membrane, painlessly contemplates the sun. Jack arose and turned the light low. As he moved back to his chair, the black of his costume melted into the shadow. The skeleton, painted on it, came out with a gleam. Sitting down, he gave the sinister effect of a live head perched on a luminous bony structure. He was a very different type, even if his youth had not distinguished him sharply from his companion. He was tall, too, but slight, and restlessly agile as if his limbs were strung on nerves instead of bones. His black costume covered his neck and head and came close about his face, leaving its clean-shaven oval unmitigatedly exposed....« less