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While the onlookers rocked with drunken laughter Red McIvor peeled bill after bill from the roll of stage money in his hand and plastered them to the prisoner's naked body with resounding slaps. "Tar an' feathers up to date spruce gum an' greenbacks!" mumbled the detective. "Hear that feller yell!" Kendrick's eyes were ablaze. He whipped out his revolver, his teeth clenched.
The listless applause that had greeted them in the parade showed that. Then, with a howl, half-sullen, half-ferocious, Vienna trundled old Niagara to the reservoir, stuck her intake pipe deep in the water, and manned her brake-beams. To the surprise of the onlookers her regular foreman took his station with the rest of the crew. Uncle Brad Trufant, foreman emeritus, took command.
Besides my own party was the crowd of idle onlookers as well as others who were impatiently waiting to seize upon vacant places about the board. And yet, just then I could not turn my head. My system involved leaving the winnings upon the table for three successive spins of the wheel.
After that she went on board the barge, which had been waiting for her, and was rowed around the border of the lake not far from the shore, so that the onlookers might see the loveliness of the flower, and even smell its perfume. The barge was not unlike an ancient galley in shape, but ornately curved like the proa of a South Sea Islander.
Unfortunately, in the case of Lady Patterdale they did not stop at advertising. They carried out their dreadful threats and clothed her. The result was incredible. She resembled nothing so much as a bursting melon. Onlookers shuddered at times when they thought of the trust reposed by Providence and Lady Patterdale in a few paltry hooks and eyes.
Funerals, if they might be dignified by this name, were not infrequent occurrences in Dalton Street, and why this one should have been looked upon as of sufficient importance to collect a group of onlookers at the gate it is difficult to say. Perhaps it was because of the seeming interest in it of the higher powers for suicide and consequent widows and orphans were not unknown there.
When he snapped his fingers they were to turn and fire. Many of the onlookers thought this test would leave High Chin a point ahead. Both men swung and fired at the signal. Again both bottles were shattered. Although a tie was again declared, the crowd cheered for Shoop, realizing his physical handicap.
He lunged murderously at his mark. Yes, and this time he found it. His teeth had touched the pudgy throat, and began to cleave their remorseless way to the very life of the man who had slain Lady. But, out of the jumble of cries and stamping feet and explosive shouts from the scared onlookers on the veranda above, one staccato yell pierced the swirl of rage-mists in the avenging collie's brain.
Come weal, come woe, he would n't trail his honour in the dust before three cynical onlookers. "Well, I'll push on," said the stranger, setting down his pannikin. "I want to pull my chaps, and I'm thinking about my horse. I say" glancing after Martin, and lowering his voice "you fellows have a devil of a bad show for to-night." "You're right," replied Thompson.
The roof fell carrying with it the floors as it went, down, down, down, shuddering like a human thing as it went, the rain of fire pouring up and around in great blistering flakes and scorching the onlookers and lighting their livid faces as they stood transfixed with horror at the sight. The canvas fluttered uselessly down and fire showered thick upon it.
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