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The scene, which ordinarily would have entranced them and filled them with awe, now had become as nothing. Every energy, every sense had centered itself only on this one vital work of extracting the Black Stone from the Ka'aba wall and of making a swift getaway with it before the rising murmur of rage, from without the area of paralysis, should sweep in on them with annihilating passion.
A daring Bolshevik patrol in force circumnavigated through the deep snow of the pine woods on skiis and surprised the poilu defenders of their favorite howitzer on the railway track, killing several and capturing the big six-inch trouble maker. They destroyed it by feeding it a German hand grenade and then made their getaway.
Isn't there any way of my getting a job wheeling that dirt?" Wagg made his noiseless getaway. He departed suddenly, without a word. Until the next night Vaniman was left to wonder to what extent he had offended the official. But Wagg showed no signs of unfriendliness when he halted, after midnight, at the cell door. "Feel any better?" "No!" "I reckon I understand. Of course I understand!
She turned in the chair, deliberately, steadying her voice. "Better come out from there. I see you," she said quietly. From under the bed Jake Houck crawled. June was the first to speak. "So you're here. You didn't get away." "I'm here," Houck growled. "No chance for a getaway. I ran out the back door of the bank an' ducked into the hotel. This was the first door I come to, an' I headed in."
Not knowing that the Arrow was lying near, or that the dozen men from the fort, with the scout pickets, were already on the scene, those energetic seamen of the Petrel were bending every effort to reach the smugglers' headquarters on time. Captain Bego, of the Esperanza, however, knew that the Petrel was on his trail, and he was all the more anxious to make "a getaway with the goods."
Didn't he go up Peace River after Pierre Poulette? Didn't he drag him back with cuffs on 'most a year later? That's what you've got against you, three hundred red-coats like him." "You tryin' to scare me?" demanded West sullenly. "I'm trying to hammer some common sense into your head. Your chance for a safe getaway rests on one thing.
But they had already reached the mouth of the cave and were making their way rapidly down the road to a bend, in the opposite direction from which we had come. There, Wu's automobile was waiting. They leaped into it and the driver, without a word, shot the car off into the darkness of early dawn. A moment later, Kennedy appeared, but they had made their getaway.
Stern had given the Pauillac another final going over, tightening the stays and laterals, screwing up here a loosened nut, there a bolt, making certain all was in perfect order. At nine-fifteen, after he had had a comforting pipe, they made a clean getaway, rising along the edge of the chasm, then soaring in huge spirals.
"You don't think it can be done? Well now listen. Here's my scheme, an' I reckon it'll work. Naturally Lacy will think we'll try to get away make a break for it in the dark. He'll have both them banks guarded, an' ther fellers will have orders ter shoot. He'd rather have us dead than alive. But, to my notion, he won't expect us ter try any getaway before midnight.
"It's too big and too well done to have been planned by a dull, commonplace crook." "Right you are," I agreed, with restored good humor. "A keen brain planned this, but not Clayte's. There had to be an instrument and that was Clayte also, likely, one or more to help in the getaway." The getaway! That brought us back with a thump to the present moment.
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