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There was an easy graceful spring in her long spacious deck which no Frenchman could ever have compassed, and there was an American look too about her bows, which raked forward in an exquisite curve, whilst they flared outward in a way which promised to make her wondrously dry and comfortable in a sea-way.
Keep near the place where these rockets were fired, Dave. Now then, what do you think?" Dave slowed down. There was certainly something to his companion's surmises or suspicions, whatever they were. Directly at the spot whence the rockets had been fired there now suddenly flared up a great reach of flames. Watching these, the interested aviators saw them change to a reddish hue.
Pale streaks of light glowed briefly as the sweep passed over them. There were milky dots everywhere. A soft light in the lower left hand corner of the screen cut an uncertain path across the grid, and two indeterminate splotches in the upper half of the scope flared out to the margin. "Morningside," the operator said.
He had been taken so by surprise that he at first had seemed incapable of action. At this moment the big bonfire flared up brightly, and by its glare Andy had a look at the face of the lad with whom he had clashed. The sight caused him suddenly to drop his hold and exclaim: "Mortimer Gaffington!" "Huh! So it's you, is it, Andy Blair?
Then, with a wordless exclamation, she sprang to her feet, pulled the window-shade carefully down to the sill, and, when she had done that, struck a match on the heel of her shoe a soiled white canvas shoe, not a small one and applied the flame to a gas jet. The yellow light flared up; and she began to pace the room haggardly.
Somewhere in the darkness hard by a woman had cried. Instinctively I turned thitherward, searching the night vainly until the lightning flared again and I beheld a cloaked and hooded figure huddled miserably against the bank of the road, and, as darkness came, I spoke: "Woman, doth the gibbet fright you, or is't I? If 'tis the gibbet go hence, if 'tis I rest assured."
An alarm bell had finally sounded, the ultra-lights had flared out into space, and upon both screens there shone out images of the closely clustered wreckage of the Arcturus. But both men were more interested just then in the mathematics of the recovery than in the vessel itself. "Missed it eight minutes of time and eleven divisions on the scale," reported Stevens. "Not so good."
What I have in mind now is to ask you, do you classify me as a coward just because I counsel prudence here?" "You're the one is holding back." "Answer me! Do you call that to me?" "I do answer you, and I do call it to you then!" flared Woodhull. "I tell you, you're a liar, and you know it, Sam Woodhull!
"You should have knocked before you came in, but now you're here, state your business as quickly as possible." "That's a businesslike tone that I admire to hear, Brown," drawled Rathburn. "You'll excuse my not callin' you judge. I'm afraid when you find out who I am you'd think I was kiddin' you!" He smiled amiably while the justice glared angrily. "You're drunk!" flared Brown.
There was no sleep for any in the colony that day, that night, or the next day. The vast pile of debris rang with the sledge blows, louder than ever anvil rang, and the torches flared and sparkled over the jumble of broken rock, beneath which now lay buried many dead none knew how many nevermore to be seen of man. Great iron bars bent double with the prying of strong arms.
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