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The heavy, muffled clang of the street door came to her as from a vast distance. The merciful darkness closed over her. The cold snap at Michamac had been broken for nearly a month, and work on the bridge was progressing with unprecedented rapidity. Two days after the ball, Ashton had returned to the bridge sobered and chastened.
The other soldiers offered still less to detach her consideration; but from the prisoner, muffled and disguised as he was, she found it impossible to withdraw her eyes. Yet she blamed herself for indulging a curiosity which seemed obviously to give pain to him who was its object.
Then a muffled rattling noise at his feet sent the blood in a furious leap to his pulses. He threw on a rich knot, and as it blazed up his eye fell on an object that caused him to spring up as if he had been stung. "Great Caesar!" he exclaimed, and as the rattle sounded once more, he made a long leap for the doorway. "That was a narrow escape. S'pose I hadn't a woke up?"
I looked up and beheld a small but neat-looking cottage, which seemed to have suffered less than the others around. Lights were shining brightly from the windows, and I could even detect from time to time a figure muffled up in a cloak passing to and fro across the window; while another, seated at a table, was occupied in writing.
The Hawk crept over the still black waters as silently as the night itself. Not a light showed aboard the little craft not a human voice was heard. Now and then the faint exhaust of the engine could have been heard by a keen ear, but the engine was muffled and whatever sound it might make carried but a few yards at most.
There were two people in it; a man clad in an immensely valuable fur coat, and a young priest, so muffled up in rugs and wraps and cloaks that only his two eyes could be seen. Just as he got up to them, he heard the priest say in a tart voice to the man in the fur coat, now standing in the road: "Whatever is the matter? What has gone wrong with your car now?"
Why should this late visitor have rapped in so uncanny a fashion in preference to ringing the bell? I stepped back to my table and slipped a revolver into my pocket. The muffled rapping was repeated. As I stood in the study doorway I saw the flap of the letter-box slowly raised! Instantly I extinguished both lights.
Muffled in the ponderous folds of a toga, Adonis might pass for Punchinello, Punchinello for Adonis. The ancient Britons, on the other hand, did not go far enough. And so it had been in all ages down to that bright morning when Mr. Brummell, at his mirror, conceived the notion of trousers and simple coats.
A dog began to bark loudly, and somewhere up in the canyon that runs at right angles to the road there came the deep, muffled boom of a mine blast. "Guess they must be working the mine, after all; still, it might be one of the others. There are half a dozen in this canyon, all of which have been worked more or less.
I should be interested to know how you managed to get some of my clothes here, together with my toilet requisites." "That was not the work of the devil, señorita," the hooded figure answered, with a muffled laugh, "El Diablo Cojuelo thinks of everything, and had made his preparations in advance. Did I not tell you all the servants of El Castillo de Ruiz were in my pay?
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