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For a few seconds they remained thus, afraid to stir, then Jeekie called out: "Climb on, Major, climb on like one monkey. Look bad, but quite safe really." As there was nothing else to be done Alan began to climb, shifting his feet along the plank edge and his hands along the rope, which creaked and stretched beneath their threefold weight.
"It seems, she puts great faith in medals. She would never think of starting on a journey if she had heard an owl hoot, or the death-watch in the wall, or if she had seen a cat at midnight, or if the furniture had creaked. Oh yes! she's a most religious lady, she is!"
Some perversity kept her eyes upon her work, her hands occupied. "Good-by, Thomas." The door creaked ajar. There was a pause. It closed reluctantly. She heard him stumble at the steps, go haltingly down the path. She stabbed the fabric in her hand with her needle as if that minute tool had been a weapon. "Men are all alike," repeated Persis, the tears running down her cheeks.
The silver stars were now sparks of an universal conflagration. With a gesture of despair, he left the city of the dead. Silence and darkness still shrouded the house of Mr. Armstrong on his return. He closed the door quietly after him, and, cautiously as he had descended, ascended the stairs, which, in spite of all his precaution, creaked under his feet.
Once or twice the bed creaked and groaned under his tossings, so that he imagined she would surely look round.
He was enjoying the girl. Sanderson slipped along the wall of the house and opened the door. It creaked loudly on its hinges with the movement, causing both Dale and the girl to turn and face it. Mary Bransford stood rigid as she saw Sanderson standing in the doorway, a flush sweeping swiftly over her face. There was relief in her eyes. Astonishment and stark, naked fear were in Dale's eyes.
Short, awkward-appearing sleds creaked and sang along the icy, hard-packed road of snow, to approach the piles of logs snaked out of the timber, to be loaded high beyond all seeming regard for gravitation or consideration for the broad-backed, patient horses, to be secured at one end by heavy chains leading to a patent binder which cinched them to the sled, and started down the precipitous road toward the mill.
Not until he was fairly inside, and crawling on hands and knees over the rickety floor, did he realize the great danger that lay in what he had undertaken to do. For an instant he trembled with fear, and then the memory of his wrongs steeled his heart and nerves. A sudden noise overheard caused him to crouch midway on the floor. A moment later the stairway creaked, and Moxley began to descend.
Through a front window, the boys could see her at the telephone in the lighted hallway. They redoubled the bombardment of the house in defiance. Across the street a door creaked. Mrs. Alford's voice carried to where the excited little group stood. "Per-e-e-e, it's nearly seven. Supper is ready. Come in and get washed right away!" The "Tigers" gasped and dispersed quickly.
In comparative silence they stole out into the hall, threw on their coats and hats, and then Tony West nervously slid the bolts of the big front door. It creaked once or twice, but no sound from the still house answered it. West swung it open, and on the whitened step they quietly put on their shoes.
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