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But the blow lacked force, and he staggered back under the other's weight, boiling with rage at the advantage which DeBar had taken of him. The outlaw's hands gripped at his throat and his fingers sank into his neck like cords of steel. With a choking gasp he clutched at DeBar's wrists, knowing that another minute a half-minute of that death clutch would throttle him.
"Yes," he said impatiently, "yes, Panton? What is it that puzzles you?" "I wish I knew exactly how long Miss Bubbles was in the water. She was very, very far gone when that boy managed to clutch hold of her. Did you see her go down again, and come up again twice? Forgive me, my dear fellow, I'm afraid I'm distressing you."
Fortunately, Timmis had a proud, confident spirit the spirit of one who, unaided, has wrested success from the world's deathlike clutch. Had Eva the reversion of fifty thousand a year instead of five, he, Clive, was still a prosperous plain man, well able to support a wife in the position to which God had called him.
She was three elephant-power, they says; and they goes 'Haw, haw! and Henery drops his clutch in, and off he goes after that car." Alfred lit another cigarette as a preliminary to the climax. "So they run for miles, and all the time there's the track ahead of 'em, and Henery keeps lettin' her out, thinkin' that he'll never ketch that car.
'It isn't passion at all, it is your WILL. It's your bullying will. You want to clutch things and have them in your power. You want to have things in your power. And why? Because you haven't got any real body, any dark sensual body of life. You have no sensuality. You have only your will and your conceit of consciousness, and your lust for power, to KNOW.
Who could have recognized in this pale, attenuated-looking young person, whose old-fashioned clothes, and out-of-style hat, suggested poverty's grim clutch, the famous beauty, whose jewelry and gowns used to be the envy of every woman in New York? Where the pace is so swift, those who do not keep up with the procession soon drop far behind.
At last, disengaging herself from the frantic clutch of the still shrieking Esmeralda, Jane crossed the room to look into the little cradle, knowing what she should see there even before the tiny skeleton disclosed itself in all its pitiful and pathetic frailty. What an awful tragedy these poor mute bones proclaimed!
In vain doth he clutch at her hair and at her kerchief, and reach, with pretty broken murmurings, as of water through crowding roots, after his little bare toes: never so much as a motion makes she towards him.
He reached from his saddle to clutch Jed's shoulder, nearly pulling the foreman from his pony. "You lie!" he cried. "You're lying to me! It ain't SO!" Parker made no effort to extricate himself from the painful grasp. His cool eyes met the blazing eyes of his chief. "I wisht I did lie, Buck," he said sadly. "I wisht it wasn't so. But it is." Johnson's head snapped back to the front with a groan.
By these pledges repeated over and over, he finally succeeded in pacifying his weeping spouse, and gently removed her clutch on his coat-tails, and departed, waving his hand to her and the kids. The last thing he saw through the rain was Jimmie Junior, flourishing a red handkerchief which Lizzie at the last moment had extracted from her husband's pocket.
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