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He followed her cautiously as she scrambled like a squirrel from the top of the ladder to the crow's-nest. Swinging through the clear sky one hundred feet above the water below, they found themselves in the sudden intimacy of a vast and magnificent solitude.

He conducted me cautiously and tenderly up the stairs, lighting the way and protecting me with friendly warnings, then pushed the door open and bowed me in and went his way, mumbling hearty things about my wonderful eye for points of a dog. Mr. Daly was writing and had his back to me. He glanced over his shoulder presently, then jumped up and said

When a man enters the house of another under false pretenses, and compromises the reputation of his daughter, we old army men have a very expeditious way of making him answer for it. It is just three o'clock now; at five you will find me and one of my friends " He stopped, and looked round cautiously then whispered the rest in Danville's ear threw open the door, and pointed downstairs.

"I don't think I would," said Robert cautiously; "you don't know what they're like near to. They've got real bows and arrows an awful length and swords and pikes and daggers, and all sorts of sharp things. They're all quite, quite real. It's not just a a picture, or a vision or anything; they can hurt us or kill us even, I shouldn't wonder. I can feel my ear all sore yet.

Cautiously, and with limitations, the doctrine is stated, first by Locke, Bayle, and Fenelon in the last quarter of the seventeenth century, then by almost all the great writers of the eighteenth.

He'll lift his head to fire and I'll get him." The speaker cautiously slipped his musket in place and drew a bead on the spot. His partner placed his hat on his ramrod and slowly lifted it a foot above their hiding place. The hat had scarcely cleared the pile of dirt before the musket flashed. "I got him! I told you he was there!" John turned from the scene with a sense of sickening horror.

Almost immediately Sara opened the door, and when she did so she found Ermengarde standing with alarmed eyes upon the threshold. "Who who ARE you talking to, Sara?" she gasped out. Sara drew her in cautiously, but she looked as if something pleased and amused her. "You must promise not to be frightened not to scream the least bit, or I can't tell you," she answered.

I know that's too damn long to walk for me." "Me too. You don't catch me walkin' that far." Ten minutes later restlessness seized them. "I'm goin' to see what's out here," said Rose, stepping cautiously toward the other door. It was a swinging door of green baize and he pushed it open a cautious inch. "See anything?" For answer Rose drew in his breath sharply. "Doggone!

"Oh, forget it!" snapped Slavens, thinking of the six hundred dollars which had flown out of the young fellow's hand so lightly. Once he could have bought a very good used automobile for four hundred. "But don't you suppose " Walker lowered his voice to a whisper, looking cautiously around in the dark as he spoke "that you stand a chance to hear from Hun Shanklin again?"

Before the captain had time to put a question, and while the men were still picking cautiously at the soft ground, the flow of water suddenly increased. Recognising probable danger, a lad named Oats called to his father, who was at the "end" of the level with Nicols.