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Sometimes he was half-pushed, half-dragged along the rocky side of a watercourse; more than once he was led waist deep across a rushing stream that was icy cold. Then there was a steep climb up another mountain slope and down into a farther valley. Here the Indians came to a halt. Rube heard the movements of horses, and presently he was lifted and flung over the back of one of them.
In a fever of haste, Daggs half-pushed, half-threw the chest under his bunk and shoved the loose clothes and small arms after it. The paper he still held in his hand. After a second of indecision, while he looked over his shoulder at the descending crowd of seamen, he thrust it in on top of the box and stood erect, flushed and swaying. The hands were preoccupied and none seemed to notice his act.
He never got any further, for at this point Rudolph Musgrave took him by the coat-collar and half-dragged, half-pushed him through the garden, shaking him occasionally with a quiet emphasis. The colonel was angry, and it was a matter of utter indifference to him that they were trampling over flower-beds, and leaving havoc in their rear.
As Oliver appeared, the wretched Indian was half-dragged, half-pushed before him. The examination was short. The sentries who had tramped the high board walk vouched for The Squaw's constant presence in the stockade throughout the whole of the required time. The guards at the sliding-panel lent corroboration.
Froud was in, answered in an injured tone, "Yes, he was in; he always was;" and, as she spoke, she half-pushed the visitor into a room on the left side of the entrance, and vanished from the scene. The room was very dark, and it was some time before "Cobbler" Horn could observe the nature of his surroundings.
He tore the letter open, throwing the envelope on the ground, and read it. "There, confound you," he muttered. "The government 'll never get that. Come on, men. Bring him this way." He shoved the letter into his pocket and led the way through the underbrush, while the others half-dragged, half-pushed me along.
You'll have to go up for it," Barry urged her. "He didn't say so!" Sidney protested nervously. But she let herself be half-pushed into the aisle, and somehow reached the three little steps that led up to the platform, and found herself facing His Excellency, in an uproar of applause.
"Here, the lunch is getting cold," said the doctor. "Come along." As he spoke he half-pushed Dexter before him, and pointed to a chair. The boy hesitated, but a sharp command from the doctor made him scuffle into his place, after which the grace was said, and the dinner commenced for Dexter the lunch for his patron and friend.
He had half-led, half-pushed the other to a chair near one of the pillars of the rotunda. "I am going to tell her," said the wreck. "What are you doing with her?" he demanded fiercely. "That is no business of yours," replied van Heerden sharply. "No business of mine, eh! I'll show you it's some business of mine. I am going to tell her all I know about you.
He was half-led, half-pushed, down the companion ladder, but in such a good-humoured, friendly way that he did not know how to resist; and then the fair-haired young man opened a door and said, "He's here, sir!" in a tone of triumph, which was certainly not ill bestowed.
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