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But all the time as she looked and laughed, and encouraged Glenn to talk, there seemed to be a strange, solemn, oppressive knocking at her heart. Was it only the beat-beat-beat of blood? "There were twelve pigs in that litter," Glenn was saying, "and now you see there are only nine. I've lost three. Mountain lions, bears, coyotes, wild cats are all likely to steal a pig.
He lifted his head. With the eyes of a madman he stared and listened. His arms relaxed from about Joanne, and she slipped crumpled and lifeless to the floor. He stared and that steady beat-beat-beat a hundred times louder than the ticking of a watch pounded in his brain. Was he mad?
Put your hand on her heart." Neale had been feeling for heart pulsations on her right side. He shifted his hand. Instantly through the soft swell of her breast throbbed a beat-beat-beat. The beatings were regular and not at all faint. "Good Lord, what a fool I am!" he cried. "She's alive! Her heart's going! There's not a wound on her!" "Wal, we can't see any, thet's sure," replied Slingerland.
They met in the middle, poised an instant on the top wave of rhythm and stepped back, every footfall, every movement, their very breathing, in time to the beat-beat-beat of the fiddle's air which filled the room as insistently as the odor of the pines. Mrs. Powers nodded her white head to it and tapped her foot.
At last Joanne realized that the explosion was not to come, that Blackton and his men were working to save them. And now, as she listened with him, her breath began to come in sobbing excitement between her lips for there was no mistaking that sound, that steady beat-beat-beat that came from beyond the cavern wall and seemed to set strange tremors stirring in the air about their ears.
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