A few times she heard them laugh; she could distinguish Brodie's throaty, bull tone and Benny's nervous cackle.

Heaven only knows what they talk about, but talk they doin the throaty unintelligible Doric of the Clydeside, with an occasional Gallicism, like, "Allyman no bon!" or "Compree?" thrown in as a sop to foreign idiosyncracies.

" "How?" He laughed a throaty, evil laugh.

" Both of the voices sounded distinctly throaty and animalistic.