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At the same time I happened to put my hand into my pocket, and there I found the greater part of a ship's biscuit, which, as I was quitting the cabin, I had mechanically thrust into it. I almost shouted for joy as I found the prize though it was not much to be divided among four men. The discovery made the rest fumble in their pockets.
I ain't a-going to be done by you or any of your scholars." Riddell gladly put down the money and had the satisfaction at last of seeing Tom fumble in his pockets for the precious weapon. It was a long time coming to light, and meanwhile the boy kept a suspicious eye on the money, evidently not quite sure whether, after all, he was safe.
The detective, the first witness for the prosecution, testified that he had followed the prisoner into the yards from among the freight cars, watched him approach the engine Blackwings and talk with the engineer. He could not make out all that passed, but knew that the men had quarrelled. He had seen the prisoner stoop down and fumble about the air-pump on the engineer's side of the engine.
That, and my eagerness, told. The fellow in the foreground burrowed cleverly; he submerged farther and farther, by rapid inches. I fired twice we could not see that I had even inconvenienced him. My Lady clutched my revolver arm. "No! Wait!" The tone rang dismayed. Trembling, blinded with heat and powder smoke, and heart sick, I paused, to fumble and to reload the almost emptied cylinder.
Still upon his knees, Barrymaine began to fumble at the buttons of that stained, betraying garment but, all at once, his fingers seemed to grow uncertain, they groped aimlessly, fell away, and he spoke in a hoarse whisper, while upon his lip was something white, like foam. "I oh I Beverley, I c-can't!"
For, if indeed the Lady Katharine hath the King's ear, much may I aid her with my counsels. She began to fumble in beneath her apron, and then, as if she suddenly remembered herself, she placed her finger upon her lips. 'Husband, she said, 'I have for you a gift.
How carefully also does he look with his failing eyes, to see if some one comes not from the king with a pardon for him, all the while endeavoring to fumble away, as well as he can, and to prolong the minute of his execution.
The Girl's lips parted to answer, then closed again dumbly, for it was then that she saw the boots, then the legs of the road agent slide uncertainly through the open trap, fumble clumsily for the rungs of the ladder, then slip and stumble as the weight of the following body came upon them while the weak fingers strained desperately for a hold.
"Help yourselves, gentlemen, help yourselves," mentally exclaimed I; "but if Mr Young is correct in his `Night Thoughts, where am I to fumble for my bones, when they are to be forthcoming?"
The front-door bell rang out again, startling, threatening, terrifying. The note of danger seemed to brace Lupin, to spur him to a last effort. He pulled himself together, and said in a hoarse but steady voice: "Your waistcoat, Charolais.... Go and open the door ... not too quickly ... fumble the bolts.... Bernard, shut the book-case. Victoire, get out of sight, do you want to ruin us all?
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