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"Who's there?" It was Porter's voice. An instant later there was a crash of glass, an explosion seemed to shake the house, and there was a rush of many feet. I leaped to the door and flung it open, Lockhart, Wilson and Brown crowding close behind me. A body of men filled the hallway, and Porter was struggling in the hands of three ruffians.
This prevented the eagle from striking down at Jup, who now began to descend; and as there was sufficient distance between his head and the eagle's beak, I fired. At the same moment I heard a crash, and thought the eagle had fallen; but when the smoke cleared away, what was my horror to discover Jup lying on the ground, while the eagle was clinging on to a branch just above its nest.
And so it became necessary to take everything away from them, to rouse them from their egotism by terrible warnings, and to proclaim to them even with the crash of bombs that the day of justice had come. The unhappy man spoke that word "justice" in a ringing voice which seemed to fill the whole court.
The levellers thrust in savagely against the ruins as the song renewed itself again, again and again, louder than the crash of the melting walls. De Forest frowned. 'I don't like that, he said. 'They've broken back to the Old Days! They'll be killing somebody soon. I think we'd better divert 'em, Arnott.
Then there was a flash beside him, and another crash as he pitched up his gun. Something struck the heather with a thud not far away, and swinging the muzzle a little, he pulled again. He was not surprised to hear a second thud, and laying down his gun he turned to his youthful companion, while a thin cloud of acrid vapor hung about him. "Get anything?" he asked.
He took care, however, to conceal his disappointment, and before he had time to reply, the door opened with a crash. "What cheer, old girl? what cheer?" resounded in bo'sun's-mate tones through the house, and next moment a rugged sea-captain stood before them. Captain Richard Millet, like his sister, was rather eccentric. Unlike her, however, he was large, broad, and powerful.
From my eerie height, I got an eagle's view of the world below a hazy, hushed world where the birds called faintly, the brooks murmured quietly and even the wind spoke in whispers. From near by came the crash of glacier ice; falling rocks that thundered down the cliffs.
They almost shrank back, so dazed and helpless did they feel before the staggering billows of noise that swept savagely down upon them roar and crash, shriek and snort; the air was shuddering with it, the ground quaking.
Then came a straining and splitting of wood, and with a crash the door gave way. A lantern's rays shot through the hall. "The house is as dark as a tomb," said a voice. "And as empty, I reckon," said another. "John Temple and his spy have got away." "We'll have a search," answered the first voice. They stood for a moment in the drawing-room door, peering, and then they entered.
Like the boat of the ancient Greek mariners' tale, the vessel of the Roman community now found itself as it were between two rocks swimming towards each other; expecting every moment the crash of collision, those whom it was bearing, tortured by nameless anguish, into the eddying surge that rose higher and higher were benumbed; and, while every slightest movement there attracted a thousand, eyes, no one ventured to give a glance to the right or the left.
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