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I was not allowed very much time to ponder the question, for, after a pause of about half a dozen seconds, the lynx-like creature made a sudden lightning-like dash at the motionless antelope, which I fully expected to see go down instantly, with the formidable fangs of its enemy buried deep in its throat.
Now, if there was one thing that the Northmen valued more than another it was courage, and their leader was so pleased with the lad's pluck that after he had picked one of his arrows out of his own arm and had warded off with some trouble various lightning-like jabs of a copper knife he directed his men to "throw a noose over that young wildcat" and bring him along, together with what other treasure they might find.
I had seen no one, was not aware the dead man had an enemy about the place, could discover no clue except that bit of damp clay on the stairs. Yes, and my own boots were stained with it also only I knew that lump never came from mine. These thoughts swept across my mind in lightning-like flashes, but brought no solution to the problem.
"You dear," she rushed on. "O, you dear, dear stubborn old fraud! I punished you, didn't I? You were frightened afraid I'd go! You know you were! As if I'd ever leave until until " She failed to finish that sentence. "But I'll never, never tease you so again!" Then there came that lightning-like change of mood which always left him breathless in his inability to follow it.
It was the second time that the dark and carefully guarded recesses of the human soul had been opened to him, but Zeal's at least were a man's, and he had listened to him with a certain passive acceptance cut with lightning-like visions of his own ruined future. He had never been invited into a woman's crypts before, and he hardly knew whether he were gratified or repelled.
A snap shot camera was in his hand. His face was white, but there was a trace of his usual smile on it. Ned wanted to laugh too, but the situation was too serious. "I've got you both," said Bob, a little nervously, "and if it's a good one I've got a dandy 'shooting up the town or the bad man covered' " Had it not been for Ned's lightning-like action these might have been Bob's last words.
He possessed a wonderful gift of speech, with a voice that was unrivalled as an instrument of fascination and conquest; and on seeing how easily he ingratiated himself with the people in that drawing-room, one could understand his lightning-like successes in the political world.
"If you can make sure that the Verdun front of the enemy has been weakened, the French will strike there." "Exactly," said the major. "Then there is another possibility. It may be the plan of the German general staff to make a show of force here and then, when we are feeling secure before Verdun, to deliver a lightning-like blow there. Those are the things I am commissioned to learn."
He would dart in and away so quickly that not even the lightning-like movements of the great cats could reach him. I have seen him tantalize them thus until they fairly screamed in rage.
The officer addressed reached out his hand to lay on the shoulder of Jack Starland, who, at that instant, recalled the knockout blow he had given Cadet Hillman of the First Class, one memorable spring morning at old Fort Putnam, West Point. It was the same lightning-like stroke which crashed into the face of the colonel and sent him staggering and toppling back to the opposite side of the cabin.
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