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A faint hissing sound directly before them startled both. But the American girl immediately recognized it for what it was, the faint murmur of an automobile engine. She quietly closed the office door, caught her companion's arm to lead her away. "Don't talk," she whispered in her ear. At the same instant the beam of an electric hand torch flashed in their eyes, blinding them.
Now see you later," and snapping on his flashlight, went down the crude ladder that gave entrance to the passageway. He waited at the bottom of this ladder until he heard the crunching sound of the feed box being pushed back over the trap door. Then the light of the flashlamp ahead of him in a dancing beam, his heart beating rapidly with excitement, he pushed on.
At last, there they were in row on a beam, their wings spread over their eyes. "Bird Fairies, I spy!" cried Eric, and ran towards the stump. But wings are swifter than feet, and the Bird Fairies reached the goal first. He found Ivra at the top of the second flight of stairs, curled up in a shadow. "I spy!" and he ran just as fast as he could down the stairs.
We had a midnight lunch too after all the jollification and when we sallied forth it was blue o'clock the morning after the night before. Coming home it was a gorgeous winter's night on the Featherbed Mountain. Bloom and Chris Callinan were on one side of the car and I was with the wife on the other. We started singing glees and duets: Lo, the early beam of morning.
'Ten more strokes and I should have run into it, thought Waring as he floated noiselessly up to this watery residence; holding on by a jutting beam, he reconnoitred the premises.
As the sun went round, and the trees for a time were cast into shade, long icicles formed on the boughs, which, as a stray beam found its way through the wood, shone like masses of precious stones. The snow had now lasted for some days, and at that early time of the season a thaw might any hour begin.
I gripped Barbara's hand, whispering, "Be ready," and, throwing one leg over the side, followed with the other, and dropped gently into Thomas Lie's boat. It swayed under me, but it was broad in the beam and rode high in the water; no harm happened. Then I stood square in the bows and whispered "Now!" For the beating of my heart I scarcely heard my own voice, but I spoke louder than I knew.
Her beauty recognized, the name of the man who married her is not Longears not to himself, is the main point; nor will it be to the world when he shows that it is not so to himself. Suppose he went to her, would she be trying at domination? The woman's pitch above woman's beauty was perceived to be no intermittent beam, but so living as to take the stamp of permanence.
I could hear feet shuffling quietly back to the bank. Soon I was left alone on the truss, threatened with a death ten times more horrible than any tiger or snake could inflict. "Not daring to move a muscle, not even to turn my head, I sat, as it seemed to me, for hours, perfectly rigid, staring straight forward at the red-painted end of the opposite beam, wavering in the heat fifty feet away.
So my lonely doleful life, if that light from God, the beam of His love, shines down upon it, rises into nobility, and flashes into beauty, and is calm and fair and great, as nothing else can make it. You may dwell in love by dwelling in God, and then your lives will be fair. You have access into the grace; see that you go there.
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