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These were questions that the castaways asked themselves. As for Tom, he sat at the key, clicking away, while, overhead, from the wires fastened to the dead tree, flashed out the messages. After the first few minutes of watching Tom click out the messages, the little throng of castaways that had gathered about the shack, moved away.
Shortly after we had been in the council-room, I opened the window and looked out, but all was still; the town was lying in the defencelessness of sleep, and nothing was heard but the clicking of the town-clock in the steeple over our heads.
Jimmy had made a request that he would have made only in dire emergency; he felt he was justified. He heard a faint clicking, then came Hite's familiar growl: "Are you drunk, Jimmy? What the hell can be so important that you must cut in mebbe you think I'll stop the presses for a feature story. I I said I'd pay the expenses of the trip, not for useless, expensive telephone calls.
Chigwin got up and fetched a glass of water, clicking her tongue against the roof of her mouth, and audibly expressing her fear that Milly's exertions had been "too much for her." But Mrs. Bundlecombe sat erect, with a look of something like disapproval upon her comely old face.
Alice and Ruth, half carrying, half dragging, the wounded soldier, staggered out, Russ clicking away at the camera. "Good! That's good! It's fine!" exclaimed the enthusiastic director. Ruth was conscious that she was suddenly dragging more of the weight of the man's body than at first.
There were reasons which he could hardly define; he only knew that the clicking of the turnstile on the stair was an alarming sound, and that he regarded each new group of visitors, as they came into the room, with a furtive apprehension. "Oh, very well," Miss Burgoyne said, at length, "let us go." And on the staircase she again said: "What is it?
After they were some distance in the garden they heard, or thought they heard, a sound back at the gate, but decided that it was nothing but the latch clicking; and they went on down to their hiding place. In a little while the black box was well settled in the hole, and the dirt was thrown upon it. The replaced earth made something of a mound, which was unfortunate.
Now one almost reached it, now the other, but neither gained possession. The clicking of the bones became louder, the struggle fiercer, the knives of the skeleton combatants rose and fell. Then one staggered back and sank in a heap on the floor. For a moment the victor swayed, tottered to the table, and gripped the mysterious object in its bony fingers.
Tic-tac! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought; our will cannot stop them; they cannot stop themselves, sleep cannot still them; madness only makes them go faster; death alone can break into the case, and, seizing the ever-swinging pendulum, which we call the heart, silence at last the clicking of the terrible escapement we have carried so long beneath our wrinkled foreheads.
So it was arranged that Aunt Lucy should take her place at Paul's bedside as his nurse. Paul was sick for many days, not dangerously so, but hard work and scanty fare had weakened him to such a degree that exhausted nature required time to recruit its wasted forces. But he was not unhappy or restless. Hour after hour he would lie patiently, and listen to the clicking of her knitting needles.
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