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He turned off to the north and took a wild trail into a split of the red wall, and wound in and out, and climbed a crack so narrow that the light was obscured and the cliffs could be reached from both sides of a horse. Once up on the wild plateau, Shefford felt again in a different world from the barren desert he had lately known.
But it somehow runs in my mind once more that it is clearer under the land." "So?" said Hoseason. "We'll have to haul our wind then, Mr. Riach; we'll have to come as near in about the end of Mull as we can take her, sir; and even then we'll have the land to kep the wind off us, and that stoneyard on our lee. Well, we're in for it now, and may as well crack on."
She would then put her head to the door and listen to every step and all the words that he directed to the turnkey as he passed by. Soon she discovered a means of seeing him. There was a little crack on the floor of the platform on which the boy walked. The world revolved for the queen only around this little crack, and the instant in which she could see her boy.
You see he did not know, never having seen such a toy before, and never having heard of machinery Ski's father did not know what a delightful toy the Plush Bear was. All he thought of was bad luck and magic. Quickly Ski's father hitched his team of dogs to the long, low wooden sled. Crack! went the long whip over their heads, but the Eskimo man did not let the lash fall on the animals.
There was no crack or crevice in it anywhere. Standing close to the door they listened intently for any sound from the other side. Everything was absolutely quiet. All that they could hear was their own excited breathing. Frank put his hand on the knob of the door and flashed a look of mute inquiry at his comrades. They nodded understandingly, and inch by inch Frank noiselessly drew the door open.
A buzz sounded in his ears, he felt the crack of a whip around his chest, the red mist reappeared before his eyes, he again saw the corpses of his wife and daughter, and beside them the usurper with the friar laughing and holding his sides. Forgetting everything else, he turned aside into the path they had taken, the one leading to his fields.
Perkins, who has not been for some weeks on speaking terms with Mrs. Piper in consequence for an unpleasantness originating in young Perkins' having "fetched" young Piper "a crack," renews her friendly intercourse on this auspicious occasion.
"So it's you, is it ?" he asked again, taking her warm little face and soft curls between his two hands. "They want you, an' they want you bad. Well, they can have grub, an' they can have me, but" he looked up to meet Pelliter's eyes "I'm damned if they can have you," he finished. Suddenly the night was broken by another sound, the sharp, explosive crack of rifles.
"I think, Vicar," she said severely, "that for a small place, Dreymarsh is becoming one of the worst centres of gossip I ever knew. Every one has been saying all sorts of unkind things about that charming Mr. Lessingham, and there you are Major Felstead's friend and a Guardsman! Somehow or other, I felt that he belonged to one of the crack regiments.
"Just like England!" I thought. And then, as I crossed the little dry-bed stream and came out upon a sandy spit of rising ground: "Z-z-ipp! Ping!" just by my left arm. The bullet struck a ledge of white rock with the now familiar metallic "tink!" I went on moving quickly to get behind a thorn-bush the only cover near at hand. Here, at any rate, I should be out of sight. "Ping!" "Crack ping!"
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