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Acton, who had dutifully held aloof, and kept on digging steadily, was still quite near enough to hear all this; at the magical word "give," he looked up hurriedly, and saw Sir John Vincent toss a piece of gold yes, on his dying oath, a bright new sovereign to Simon Jennings. O blessed vision, and gold was to be his at last!
"Jack isn't hurt yet," said Doctor Hugh, smiling, "and I don't know but digging out Plummers Lane is a man-sized job and one to be proud of. Certainly if you get the streets in passable condition so that we don't have to carry a sick woman through snow drifts to get her to the ambulance which happened last week you'll have the thanks of the doctors if not of the Student Council."
Grabbing a shovel from a railroad employee, he called to his men and began digging a trench on the tunnel end of the "fill" to form a temporary spillway should the top of the flood reach the crest of the road bed. Fifty or more men sprang to his assistance with pick and shovel wherever one could stand and dig.
"Nothing very serious. A slight attack of bronchitis. He'll be up in a few days if he will consent to keep quiet." "I must go see him tomorrow," said Durtal. "And what are you doing?" enquired Des Hermies. "Working hard?" "Why, yes. I am digging into the trial of the noble baron de Rais. It will be as tedious to read as to write!" "And you don't know yet when you will finish your volume?"
While two or three of their number had certain inklings of the truth, as has been stated, to much the greater portion of their body it appeared to be a profound mystery; and one that, in some inexplicable manner, was connected with the recent digging up of the hatchet.
At times he would stand by the long trenches where the men were digging for the foundation, a great line of them, their backs bent over their work, and rub his hands in pleasingly human satisfaction, saying, "We're goin' along fine, Teddy. I can jist see me way to the top av the buildin'," and then he would proceed to harass and annoy his men out of pure exuberance of spirits.
He gave the barrel beside them a significant tap. "We couldn't use this plant again six years digging it and waiting and starving!" He struck the barrel sharply. "I tell you we've got to put it through! You keep her out of sight!" "Her own mother wouldn't know her " said the woman slowly. He met the look and waited. "I tell you, I've done everything," she said with quick passion.
Your friend here," and he nodded to Frank, "had been so kind to us a week ago, that I felt sure he would not mind sitting up with him, though I know he thought me a fool to go on digging at that wretched hole. I think he looks " and he motioned to the tent "a little better this morning. Of course there's not much change; but his face does not look quite as it did yesterday.
To get away and reach the Indians to get food would be his main thought. It was a case of life and death with him. So you can bet he chose easy digging when he transferred the treasure. That means he buried it in the sand not far from where he found it." "You have it figured out beautifully," Sam laughed. "Well, I wish you luck." "But you don't expect any for me. Just you wait and see."
When they had proceeded with this digging until they were quite under ground, Ta-vwots', standing on the rock above, hurled the magical ball which he was accustomed to carry with him, and striking the ground above the diggers, it caved the earth in, and they were all buried. "Aha," said he, "why do you wish to hinder me on my way to kill the Sun?
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