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He had scarcely finished his narration when Bob peered out from their improvised shelter and seemed to be looking at something intently that is, as intently as he could in the rainy darkness. "What is it?" asked Jimmy cautiously. "I don't know," was the answer. "But someone, or something, is crawling this way. Look right straight ahead. See it moving?" For a moment Jimmy could see nothing.
Dane clanked on to join them, carrying in plated fingers their most important weapon to awake public opinion an improvised cage in which was housed one of the pests from the cargo hold the proof of their plague-free state which they intended Hovan to present, via the telecast, to the whole system. Dane reached the shaft of the riser to find the platform gone.
Here, after the position had been several times stormed by artillery, the Zouaves made one of the most brilliant bayonet charges of the day, dashing up the steep banks and through the breeched walls. Opposite the gate is another steep bank where can still be seen the improvised gun positions of the French when they pushed the retreat across the plain.
General Arnold, who is given command of the city, intends there shall be no disturbance, and he is not the man to have his orders broke." Set at ease as to their safety, the first concern of the women was a hastily improvised breakfast from the scantily supplied larder which Clowes' servants had abandoned to them.
Then letting go of the first rope he hauled on the other, pulling the head of the stallion far down. Hand over hand Slone closed in on the horse. He leaped on Wildfire's head, pressed it down, and, holding it down on the sand with his knees, with swift fingers he tied the nose in a hackamore an improvised halter.
"March!" and he gave the wretched Hapgood a smart tap with his improvised billy that sent him on several paces. Then, to his utter discomfiture, out popped Lucy, red with indignation. "Nate Tierney, what you doing with my father? Where you going to take him to? Let him alone, I say. Let him alone!"
The Germans, it seems, are the authorities in these matters, a point I had overlooked. They would refuse to recognize men with only improvised uniforms, they would shoot their prisoners not that I had proposed that my irregulars should become prisoners and burn the adjacent villages.
She replaced the bomb in its bag, placed the bag in the black satchel, tucked in the soiled shirts to cover it and with her improvised key managed to relock the satchel. Watching for a time when the corridor was vacant, she went to 45, entered the room and replaced the satchel on its shelf, taking care to arrange the newspaper before it as a mask.
His first inquiry was about the Gitchie Manitou. When he learned that this was apparently little injured and had already been backed into the aerodrome, he gave more evidence of his all-day's strain by again relapsing into unconsciousness on the cot that had been improvised for him before the fire in the living room.
Squire Boatfield was standing beside that improvised bar, and at sight of Sir Marmaduke he put down the pewter mug which he was in the act of conveying to his lips, and came forward to greet his friend.
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