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"That is the place for men like you!" he exclaimed, standing before a small, exquisitely finished Madonna. "What do these Milanese know of art? Or the Florentines, for that matter? Your 'Last Supper' I saw it last week. It is a blur. Would that the sainted Louis might have taken it bodily, stone by stone, to our France, as he longed to do.
It was yet too dark to make her out, except for a dim blur that showed faintly against the background of the Belgian coast. By striking the Dewey's latitude and longitude they figured they were at a point five or six miles off Blankenberghe. "Where do you suppose she is heading for?" asked Cleary. He was plainly puzzled.
"You have quite recovered," she said; "except for that slight scar under the eye you are the same as before the meeting with Dunlavey's men." He looked beyond her at the tawny mountains that rose in the distance, miles on the other side of the big basin swimming in the shimmering blur of white sky somber guardians of a mysterious world. What secret did they guard?
A blur of faces rose above deck-rails, faces that, looking back, receded finally. The last flag and the last kerchief became vapor. Against the pier-edge, frantically, even perilously forward, her small flag thrust desperately beyond the rail, Mrs. Ross, who had lost a saving sense of time and place, leaned after that ship receding in majesty, long after it had curved from view.
Sweeping down from his saddle, he picked it up without stopping, and found that it was a half emptied whiskey flask. Turning it over in his hand, he read the inscription: "To Race Moran from his friends of the Murray Hill Club." In after years, when Wade tried to recall that mad ride, he found it only a vague blur upon his memory.
The port and dome windows slid closed. Moa hissed against my ear: "If you want life, Gregg Haljan, you will start your duties!" Venza had failed. Whatever it was, it had come to nothing. Down in the purple forest, disconnected now from the ship, the last of our friends stood marooned. I could distinguish them through the blur of the closed dome only a swaying, huddled group was visible.
In a little while the young girl awoke out of her trance, and felt again the cold wind of the world, and began to shiver. I tell these things as accurately as I can, and with no theories to blur the history. Theories are poor things at the best, and the bulk of mine have perished long ago.
He passed his hands before his eyes as if to make sure that it was no blur of the vision, and then he went forward again, the sailors keeping close behind, as if they were in fear lest the figure prove to be supernatural. "Who are you?" called the young officer. "Robert Lennox, of Albany, the Province of New York, and the wilderness," replied Robert. "Welcome to my island."
She sobbed audibly as she finished; and it seemed to Gabriella that a lifetime of experience passed in the instant while she stood there, with her pulses drumming in her ears, her throat contracting until she struggled for breath, and the lights of the city swimming in a nebulous blur before her eyes.
Hour after hour she sat motionless beside the car-window, quiet, pale, dark eyes remote; trees, houses, trains, telegraph-poles streamed past in one gray, unending blur; rain which at first had only streaked the grimy window-glass with cinders, became sleet, then snow, clotting the dripping panes.
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