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"Take your hand off my horse!" exclaimed Murrell hoarsely, his mouth hot and dry with a sense of defeat. "Can't you see she'd rather be alone?" said Carrington. "Let go!" roared Murrell, and a murderous light shot from his eyes. "I don't know but I should pull you out of that saddle and twist your neck!" said Carrington hotly. Murrell's face underwent a swift change.

Warden's face grew poisonously malevolent. He laughed, hoarsely. "Bah!" he jeered. "We'll say I lied. What of it! I didn't want to antagonize you, then. Only a fool is truthful at all times." He laughed again, mockingly. "I'm truthful when I want to be."

The younger man, frowning now, replied: "We don't want to see any more of your junk. The clothes on the models suit us all right. Slip 'em off, McGuire." "But " began McGuire and then stopped. His first suspicion returned with redoubled force; above all, that head of dark red hair made him thoughtful. He finished hoarsely: "What the hell's this?"

"How do you know what he used to tell her?" said Ashe, with a laugh. But his forehead had reddened. "One hears and one guesses from the letters that have been published. Oh, I understand quite well! You can't trust me!" Ashe turned aside and began to gather up his papers. "Of course," said Kitty, a little hoarsely, "I know it's my own fault, because you used to tell me much more.

He turned and saw one of the colonists scrambling down the side of the hill, heading for him. "Here they come," Astro whispered hoarsely. "Spaceman's luck!" He dropped the last stone in place and turned to face the man who was now almost upon him. Tom and Roger crouched in the darkness and listened intently. "You there!" they heard the colonist cry. "Halt! Don't move or I'll freeze you!"

"Eben McClure!" he cried, as in the long reach of the overhand stroke the man's face was turned towards him, "what are you doing here?" Stair helped him out of the water. The man could hardly gasp at first, but in a moment words returned to him. "The lost dog," he said hoarsely, "follows the only man who is kind to it."

The first thing they knew was the shout from the crowd ahead of them, blown down to them hoarsely as the big brown horse wheeled into the stretch behind them. He was ahead of the other horses and was making hotly after the four horses in the lead. He was running now with neck outstretched; but he was running, and he was surely closing up the gap.

There! there! there!" "Aileen!" he called, hoarsely. "Aileen!" Then, getting no response, and the screams continuing, he turned angrily. "Stand back!" he exclaimed to Sohlberg, who was moaning helplessly. "Get me a chair, get me a table anything." The butler ran to obey, but before he could return Cowperwood had found an implement.

Polly made a final effort to escape from the pit she was being pushed into. 'Mr. Harrington! it wasn't to tell you this I wrote. Miss Rose is engaged, sir. 'I understand, said Evan, hoarsely, scarcely feeling it, as is the case with men who are shot through the heart. Ten minutes later he was on horseback by the Fallow field gates, with the tidings shrieking through his frame.

I followed him on to the lawn, or rather the piece of park-land that ran up to the house. We walked quickly, he in front, without exchanging a word. Suddenly he stopped, just where there jutted out the bow-window of the yellow drawing-room, and I felt Oke's hand tight upon my arm. "I have brought you here to see something," he whispered hoarsely; and he led me to the window. I looked in.