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The tents, with the dim lights through the canvas, gleamed pale and obscure, like so much of the life they hid. The throngs hurried, the dust blew, the band played, the barkers clamored for their trade. Neale found the more pretentious hotels overcrowded, and he was compelled to go to his former lodgings, where he and Larry were accommodated.
"There!" he said, "I have but crossed her steps in the hall, and she has stirred me and set my nerves tingling like an October breeze. She is a witch." After a few minutes Miss Walton entered. Each of the children called for a story, and both clamored for their favorites. "Johnny," said Miss Walton, "it is manly to yield to the least and weakest, especially if she be a little woman."
Suddenly Kitty's sadness gave way; her starved senses clamored; she woke to poetry and pleasure.
At another time Betty might have hesitated to slip down into it; now she was eager for anything that gave the vaguest hope of flight. For the faint far voices still clamored and she feared that the hounds that hunted in Zoraida's wake might find the secret of the boulder and roll it back with many hands and rush down upon them. But Kendric held her back while he first went down.
No one can ever accuse us of saying that, but there is something home-like and old-fashioned about it that can not be replaced by any invention. We know that certain over-fastidious women have long clamored for some new method of putting on a pillow case, but these people have either lost their teeth, or the new ones do not grasp the situation.
"That prize was intended for me and my children!" "Who won second and third?" cried a noisy hen from across the way. "They're both at the other end of the hall!" somebody shrieked. "It's an outrage! It isn't fair! We've been cheated!" Henrietta Hen's nearest neighbors clamored. But nobody paid any attention to them. As for Henrietta, she didn't quite know how to act.
The whole room was laughing, Hilary loudest, but the youth's voice prevailed. "It'll hold good!" He turned upon the detective: "Won't it?" A merry nod was the reply, with cries of "Yes," "Yes," from the battery boys, and he clamored on: "Why, there's a kind of people " "Quakers!" sang out some one. "Yes, the Quakers! Don't they do it all the time! Of course they do!"
"Oh, yes, please," clamored Marjorie, and immediately afterwards a rope ladder was let down, and one or two of the little men hung over the ledge to steady it. "Come along," cried Marjorie, leading the way, while Fidge followed next, repeating over and over, with a delighted chuckle, "We are going to see the Pan jan de lum! We are going to see the Pan jan de lum!"
Snatching my revolver from the pocket of the rough jacket I wore, I bounded to the stair and went blundering up in complete darkness. A chorus of brutish cries clamored from behind, with a muffled scream rising above them all.
Runners shouted it as they sped by; boys panted it, breathless; women with loosened hair stumbled into darkling chambers and faltered it out to new-wakened sleepers; pale girls clutching wraps at their throats whispered it across fences; the sick, tossing on their hard beds, heard it. The bell clamored it far and near; it spread over the country-side; it flew over the wires to distant cities.
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