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"Potts," he said huskily. The Colonel made no sound. "Potts, measure me out two fingers, will you? Cabin's damn cold." No answer. Mac roused himself, muttering compliments for Potts. When he had bundled himself out over the side of the bunk, he saw the Colonel seemingly dozing by the fire. He waited a moment. Then, very softly, he made his way to the farther end of the swing-shelf.
He was in mortal terror of his life every moment that he was awake, and at last had given in to the urge of cowardice and resigned. The day previous he had been bundled into a buckboard and driven over to the Mexican Central which, at that time, still was operating trains occasionally between Chihuahua and Juarez.
'Do you know I saved your life? returned the other, not deigning to look at him, his eyes travelling instead between the compass and the sails. 'Where would you have been, if that boom had swung out and you bundled in the clack? No, SIR, we'll have no more of you at the mainsheet. Seaport towns are full of mainsheet-men; they hop upon one leg, my son, what's left of them, and the rest are dead.
And when they pushed up the window a little more to stick their heads out they immediately discovered something else. "Goodness me!" gasped Bobby. "It's one glare of ice everything! And so-o cold! Ugh!" and she shivered, bundled as she was in a blanket robe. First Betty and then Ida had to investigate. The latter looked very mournful. "The horse can never travel to-day," she groaned.
A venerable banker, bundled in rugs, was asleep in his deck chair. " Well, Nora," said Coleman, " I hope you make a hit in London. You deserve it if anybody does. You've worked hard." "Worked hard," cried the girl. "I should think so. Eight years ago I was in the rear row. Now I have the centre of the stage whenever I want it.
She rushed eagerly up the stairway, and soon returned with the pretty, brown coat which she had found on her bed Christmas morning. Into this she bundled the surprised beggar child, pleased to think it fitted so well, and explained rapidly, "I got two new coats for Christmas. Grandma said the red one was for best, so I kept that one, but you can have this. Keep it on outside your old rag.
A signal lantern was attached to one of the shoring stanchions near the mess hall, and as Madden moved into its dull glow, another bundled form entered from the other side. The figure stopped and saluted. "If you please, sor," he bawled in Madden's ear, "th' nixt watch is sick." "Sick! The whole watch sick? What do you mean, Mike?"
This girl, this prairie-flower, was doing this for him, was risking her life, was breaking the law for him. If she got through, and handed over the whiskey to those who were waiting for it, and it got bundled into the boats going North before the redcoats reached Dingan's Drive, it would be as fine a performance as the West had ever seen; and he would be six hundred dollars to the good.
"Now God be praised for both," said he, passionately; "but most for thee, the best wife, the truest friend " Here, thinking of her virtues, and the blow he had come to strike her, he broke down, and was almost choked with emotion; whereupon Mrs. Vint exerted female authority, and bundled him out of the room. "Is that the way to carry on at such an a time?" said she.
"He was a wing-three," said Ginger with a gravity befitting his theme. "Rather fast, with a fairly decent swerve. But he would not learn to give the reverse pass inside to the centre." "Ghastly!" said Sally. "If," said Ginger earnestly, "a wing's bottled up by his wing and the back, the only thing he can do, if he doesn't want to be bundled into touch, is to give the reverse pass."
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