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In about fifteen minutes the "string" of air balls was before the city, and speaking in my ultrophone I gave the order to halt, while I swung the scope control to the penetrative setting and let my "eye" rove slowly back and forth through the walls of the city, hunting for a spot from which I might get my bearings.
Despite the darkness and the driving rain, he could now see the lights in his own camp, and bending forward a little to support the dead weight on his back, he walked in a straight course toward them. "Halt! Who are you?" The form of a sentinel, rifle raised, rose up before him in the darkness and the rain.
In an instant the guide and I were surrounded, the whole cavalcade leveling their guns at the thicket and calling on our companions, who could be plainly heard crashing through the bushes, to halt.
The rancher dared not continue farther while there was reason to fear their pursuers were near. The brushing of the branches against the bodies of the animals and the noise of their hoofs could be detected in the silence, and was sure to betray the fugitives to any Sioux within a hundred yards. The wife understood why the halt was made. Her husband stole back and placed himself by her side.
The lodge gate swung open wide, and the well-known striped marquee was seen among the trees in the distance, as they went up the carriage road; but at the little iron gate leading to the shrubbery there was a halt; Mr. Ferrars called to the carriage to stop, and opened the door. At the same moment Albinia gave a cry of wonder, and exclaimed, 'Why, Fred? is William here?
My breath failed me; an interval came in which respiration seemed to be stifled the blood to halt in its current; and then and there I recognised in myself the force and living truth of that Scriptural description of a heart consciously beset by evil without escape: 'Susannah sighed. Yes, a long, long sigh a deep, deep sigh that is, the natural language by which the over-charged heart utters forth the wo that else would break it.
But he might as well have called a whirlwind to halt; for helter-skelter, past us they dashed, without minding us a bit. Dicky was highly indignant. "Well, I never was so treated in my life!" he exclaimed.
But wherever it leads you whether through level woods, across grassy glens, or over hills waving with palms the bright blue sea on one side, and the green mountain pinnacles on the other, are always in sight. ABOUT a mile from the village we came to a halt. It was a beautiful spot.
But there was no halt; the material for the second section had been assembled, meanwhile, and the traveler began to swing it into place. The din was unceasing; the clash of riveters, the creak and rattle of hoists, the shouts of men mingled in a persistent, ear- splitting clamor; and foot by foot the girders reached out toward the second monolith which rose from the river-bed.
Also the southern route offered little hope of success. The streets became more and more deserted as the four friends continued their walk toward the northern outskirts. They passed several detachments of rapidly moving troops, but they were unchallenged. Suddenly the young Englishman called a halt. "The automobile is waiting at the next corner," he explained.
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