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That action and the hints which preceded it seemed to bewilder the little man more than ever. He stared perplexedly at Lomaque; uttered a word or two of rough apology to his subordinate, and rolling his misshapen head portentously, walked away with the death-list crumpled up nervously in his hand.
She was not a Pestov for nothing: three Pestovs had been on the death-list of Ivan the Terrible, Marfa Timofyevna was well aware of the fact. "Tell me please," began Lavretsky again, "Marya Dmitrievna has just been talking to me about this what's his name? Panshin. What sort of a man is he?" "What a chatterbox she is, Lord save us!" muttered Marfa Timofyevna.
An instant of light from a venturesome torch showed him to his enemies, and again he fought, like a whale in his last flurry, slowly dying from exhaustion and pain, but still potential to kill terrible in his agony. There was no counting of scalps in that day's work; but perhaps no devouring white monster in all the defensive army could have shown a death-list equal to this.
All the time the whistle and blub-blub of bullets filled the air, and all the time the death-list grew.
We assume that a Minister who graciously permits a foreign arsenal to copy our guns a foreign dockyard to copy and to emulate our ships, is a traitor to the prosperity and continued power of the country. Two of the great leaders in Trade are named on the Death-list; one because, in spite of many warnings, he employs foreign workmen only; the other, because he 'sweats' native labour.
And harkye, friend, I have leave of absence, on business, at my Section this afternoon. So it will be your duty to read the list for the guillotine, and chalk the prisoners' doors before the cart comes to-morrow morning. 'Ware the bottle, Apollo, to-day; 'ware the bottle, for fear of accidents with the death-list to-morrow."
Now, listen; I am going to put my own head in danger for the chance of saving yours and your sister's by tampering with the death-list. Don't interrupt me! If I can save one, I can save the other. Not a word about gratitude! Wait till you know the extent of your obligation.
Here the old gentleman hastily unfolded a newspaper, and read as follows: "`Why should not such an amount of information be obtained as will not only induce, but enable the Board of Trade immediately to frame some plain, practical measure, the enforcement of which would tend to lighten the appalling yearly death-list from shipwreck?
Starting a panic that will scatter it all over the place is the real danger. Have you heard of a single case outside of the Rookeries district, so far?" Hal strove to recall the death-list on the proof. "No," he admitted. "You see! It's confined to one locality. Now, what happens if you turn loose a newspaper scare?
Professor G. F. Sanborn, and other leading American entomologists, assert that the mosquito saves from twenty-five to forty per cent. in our death-list among those who are exposed to malarial influences.
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