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For one instant she directed a final look on the room, that, sad and lonely though it was, had still been a home to her; and then, without a word or a sigh, she turned, and crouching like a beaten dog, fled from the house. During the whole of the scene Vetranio had stood so fixed in the helpless astonishment of intoxication as to be incapable of moving or uttering a word.
Sometimes it seemed impossible that he should fail to hear our approach. However, the man is fortunately rather deaf, and he was entirely preoccupied in that which he was doing. When at last we reached the door and peeped through we found him crouching at the window, candle in hand, his white, intent face pressed against the pane, exactly as I had seen him two nights before.
'It doesn't hurt you very much, does it? he asked, solicitous. 'Not at all, she cried. And suddenly the rabbit, which had been crouching as if it were a flower, so still and soft, suddenly burst into life. Round and round the court it went, as if shot from a gun, round and round like a furry meteorite, in a tense hard circle that seemed to bind their brains.
A further investigation ensued downstairs, but in a little while the searchers went out of the house. Their tone had changed since their disappointment, and loud threats floated up the dark stairway to the prisoners still crouching in the little recess. In a few minutes the boys' Cousin Belle came rushing up stairs. "Now's your time! Come quick," she called; "they will be back directly.
'How long am I to stand crouching here? I asked of myself, at last, being tired of hearing them cry, 'score one, 'score two, 'No, by , Charlie, 'By , I say it is, Phelps. And yet my only chance of slipping by them unperceived was to wait till they quarrelled more, and came to blows about it.
A searching bandit behind me poked with his light into the crevice where a moment before I had been crouching. I moved faster. Only Gutierrez now was in front of me. He was at the far end of the arch. I could slip past, and still be fifty feet from him if I could avoid his swinging little light-beam. I was running now, chancing that he would hear me. I was on the path; I could see it vaguely.
One quick jerk and she was fairly dragged over the crouching figure of Copley and around the corner of the narrow passage. The head Chinaman darted forward and seized Chess. He likewise was dragged into the place.
But when the tragic part was reached, and he saw the dead man on the floor, his sister crouching in the corner of the room, with Rover at her side, the rude coffin, the open grave, and the secret midnight burial, his breath came in long, shuddering gasps, and the perspiration stood in great drops upon his forehead and about his pallid lips.
Mac was crouching over an etching by the window, a big magnifying glass in his hand. I went over to him and he rose and handed the print to me. "Oh!" I said. "This is indeed apropos." It was an etching, by the painter-cousin, of the wrecked aeroplane of which he had spoken.
Going or staying, Milo remains thy bodyguard. Pardon if I offended thee; thy father desired what I have told thee. But the ship. This evening, at sundown, a sail leaped in sight beyond the Tongue." "This evening! And ye said no word of it?" cried Dolores, blazing with fresh anger. She leaned forward in her chair as if crouching for a spring. "It passed as swiftly as it appeared, Sultana.
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