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Suddenly, with a quick movement, she started violently back, as if some frightful apparition had risen up before her. Hoarse bayings, quite different from the distant barking of a moment before, rent the air, and were repeated more and more violently below there in the darkness.
A hoarse imprecation broke from his lips, and Norris Vine, who was still conscious though badly winded, seeing what was amiss, sat up on the carpet and gazed too, bewildered, at the empty table. The papers were gone! There was no sign of them there. There was no sign of any one else in the apartment. There was nothing to indicate that any one had entered it or left it.
He rather pitied the folks trying to sleep dry on deck; and he wondered how it was faring with his father and Mr. Grigsby. He could hear hoarse orders to the sailors, and hasty tread of feet, forward; and calls and exclamations among the passengers. Then there was a heavy weight almost on top of him, sagging the canvas, the canvas was torn aside a little way, and he struggled to sit up, in alarm.
Quick as a bird of prey he was, and at times as inert; dark as night, eagle-faced, flat-browed, stiff and small in the head, clean-featured, with decisive lips. A very fluent speaker, hoarse in voice, but cunning in the vibrations he could lend it, he was in action as light and fierce as a flame; at rest as massive as a block of stone, impervious to threats or prayers or tears.
"I'm not a harsh man, but I'd give a hundred pounds down to see the wretch who did this lying dead in the ruins." "Ay, mester," said Hickathrift in a low hoarse voice; "it be a shaame. Will it spoil the dreern, and stop all the work?" "Ay," said Dave, as he stood leaning upon his pole, which he had brought over his shoulder; "will it stop dreern?"
"Ain't there anybody agoin' to set up with it?" she asked, in her hoarse pipe. "It appears like folks hain't got any feelin's in New York. Woon't some o' the neighbors come and offer to set up, without waitin' to be asked?" "Oh, that's all right, mother. The men 'll attend to that. Don't you bother any," Mela coaxed, and she kept her arm round her mother, with tender patience. "Why, Mely, child!
The rich, warm milk made Jim Leonard awfully sleepy, and he dropped off almost as soon as his head touched the corn-stalks. The last thing he remembered was the hoarse roar of the freshet outside, and that was a lulling music in his ears.
"He's gone!" said Link in a hoarse whisper, speaking for the first time after a hasty scanning of the shadowy place. Shorty took the precaution to turn the key of the door leading to the third story before he entered to investigate. "Do you think it was him fired that shot?" Link shook his head. "Couldn't! I had him lifted up in my arms and was just handing him some more dope when the sound come.
The Leopard shook under the concussion of the discharge, and she was completely enveloped in smoke; so that they could not see whether the Belle had been hit or not. But in the distance they could hear hoarse shouts in the direction of the Belle, and they concluded that something had happened in that quarter.
The door of the dressing-room opened, and out came Leopold, his white face shining. "God has heard me!" he cried. "How do you know that?" said his sister, in the hoarse accents of unbelieving despair. "Because he has made me strong to do my duty. He has reminded me that another man may be accused of my crime, and now to conceal myself were to double my baseness."
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