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In this somewhat ignominious position dizzily he heard Yorke's mocking tones: "What are the odds on Fox, bookie? . . . I'd like a few of those dollars when you've quite finished picking them all up." With an almost superhuman effort the young fellow controlled himself once more as he arose. Not lightly had he given a promise.
She had an impression fleeting at the time but returning to her later of friendly dark eyes that looked for an instant into hers; and then, exactly how it happened she knew not, she was sitting propped against the rock, while all the world swam dizzily around her, and someone with sure, steady hands wound a bandage tightly and ever more tightly around her wounded foot.
Streeter's and the minister's and the Enemy's! oh, most of all past the Enemy's! for fear they'd look out of the window and say, "There goes an adopted!" Perhaps they'd point their fingers. Margaret closed her eyes dizzily and saw Mrs. Streeter's plump one and the minister's lean one and the Enemy's short brown one, all pointing.
Clint's bearers broke into a shambling run, and Clint, clutching tightly at Amy's neck, lurched and bobbed dizzily as they hurried across the field. For an instant he caught a view of the gravely pleased countenance of Penny Durkin. Penny waved and was lost to sight again. Other faces he knew swam past him. Smiles and shouts and waving hands greeted him.
Jerry Card had taken to the sage. Far up the white trail Night came trotting faithfully down. Venters leaped off, still half blind, reeling dizzily. In a moment he had recovered sufficiently to have a care for Wrangle. Rapidly he took off the saddle and bridle. The sorrel was reeking, heaving, whistling, shaking. But he had still the strength to stand, and for him Venters had no fears.
A gleam of perplexity crept into her frightened eyes, and one hand went up to her throat. "What is it?" she whispered again breathlessly. "It is that we start for Oran to-morrow," he replied. His voice sounded dull and curiously unlike, and with a little start Diana realised that he was speaking in English. Her eyes closed and she swayed dizzily. "You are sending me away?" she gasped slowly.
They were dizzily aware of shouted orders, the creaking of the toiling, slipping ropes, little jolts and stoppages, two hundred eyes blinking up, not seeing their cringed-up limbs unnecessary cautious: for the nearer they descended to-ward the half-light, the surer did the area of the lorry make their invisibility.
The waves swept him under the rope and would have wrenched him from it had he not clung on desperately. Holding to it with his right hand, he sought to find it with his left and so draw himself on, but the surf swirled him about dizzily and he gave up the attempt.
Her head was throbbing dizzily, but she would not lower it to the pillow again in his presence. She felt almost like a prisoner awaiting sentence. "Did he give it you against your will?" he asked at length. "Not altogether." Her voice was almost a whisper. Her heart was beating with hard, uneven strokes. She felt sick and faint. Burke moved suddenly, releasing her hand.
Again that wonderful barking-death came into play, and Bruno felt a strangely savage joy gnawing at his heart as he saw more than one stalwart warrior reel dizzily back from his hot hail. "For Ixtli, you curs! That for Ixtli! Down, and eat dirt, dogs!"
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