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We erected an altar beside the stream, to which for several years we brought all the snakes we killed during our excursions, no matter how long the toil some journey which we had to make with a limp snake dangling between two sticks.
"I'm Milsom," said the man in the doorway again. His clothes were grimed and dusty, his collar limp and soiled. There were two days' growth of red-grey stubble on his big jaw, and he bore himself like a man who was faint from lack of sleep. He walked unsteadily to the table and fell into a chair. "Where is van Heerden?" asked Beale, but Milsom shook his head.
He spoke the ringin', lightnin' truth.... Then he accused Tull of the underhand, miserable robbery of a helpless woman. He told Tull where the red herd was, of a deal made with Oldrin', that Jerry Card had made the deal. I thought Tull was goin' to drop, an' that little frog-legged cuss, he looked some limp an' white.
But dear Marcia, I hope it's not true I hope to God, it's not true! that you've quarreled with Newbury?" Marcia was standing with her head thrown back against the high marble mantelpiece. The lids drooped over her eyes. "I don't know," she said, in a faint voice. "I don't know. Oh no, not quarreled " Sir Wilfrid looked at her with a fatherly concern; took her limp hand and pressed it.
"Oh, I'm all right," he cried to her, putting into his voice all the heartiness he could command, which was not much, for he had himself been under no mean nervous strain. He showed the reaction he was undergoing, when he swung down out of the saddle. He began with a brave muscular display as he lifted his leg over, but ended, on his feet, leaning against the limp Dolly for support.
Jack told him; for a response instantly came in a volley that kicked up the dust around their heads. But Jack's rifle lay in limp hands. "Eight!" he repeated, dazedly. "And I shot to kill to kill!" His face blanched with horror at the thing that he had done. It seemed as if the strength had been struck out of him. He appeared ready to let destiny overtake him rather than fire again.
Dicksie walked around on the porch to the kitchen. A dust-covered man sitting on a limp horse threw back the brim of his hat as he touched it, lifted himself stiffly out of the saddle, and dropped to the ground. He laughed at Dicksie's startled expression. "Don't you know me?" he asked, putting out his hand. It was Whispering Smith. He was a fearful sight.
Pete, you mounted fellers round up a little bunch the herd a little closer, an' drive straight along the trail towards that other fence. We'll all help you as soon as the wranglers bring us up something to ride. Push 'em hard, limp or no limp, till dark. They'll be too tired to go crow-hopping 'round any in the dark to-night. An' say!
"My, but you have it snug in here," said the doctor, as he entered the tight, waterproof cabin. "Hang up your coat, doctor," said Tom, and he took the physician's dripping mackintosh and slung it on a hook attached to one of the stanchions. Then the start was made, with the bag partially deflated and lying in limp, wet folds on its framework.
With a howl of anguish one of the creatures leaped high in a death agony and came toppling down among his mates, a limp, inanimate mass. This checked the surging onrush for an instant, and in that instant Roy was on his feet and sprinting briskly toward the girls. Straight for the aeroplanes they headed.
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