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The more he followed the right bank the farther west of south it bore him, and Devers hid his compass with his conscience in the breast of his hunting-shirt, and found relief in renewed expletives. It was Davies who had to urge his horse to the lope to overtake the command so steadily pulling away from him.
"If they overtake us, you being with us, I'll swear that you were one of the hardiest men in my crew!" Robert laughed, he could not help it, though the act was more or less hysterical, and replied: "I'll chance it! But, Captain, didn't you have the surprise of your whole life, and you so cunning, too!" The man raised his cutlass, but dropped it quickly. "Don't try me that way again," he said.
Stringham's sounding it quite as if any suggestion that he should overtake them at the Rialto or the Bridge of Sighs would leave him temporarily cold. This precisely it was that, after a little, operated for Milly as an obscure but still fairly direct check to confidence. He had known where they all were from the others, but it was not for the others that, in his actual dispositions, he had come.
The animals were soon loaded, and leaving the vakeel to take them in charge, we cantered on to overtake Ibrahim, having crushed the mutiny, and given such an example, that in the event of future conspiracies my men would find it difficult to obtain a ringleader.
But to add to their fury by an act of defiance on our part! It is fatal they have only to overtake us." "What was I to do, Odalie?" said Hamish MacLeod, suddenly grave, and excitedly justifying himself. "There was that red Injun, as still as a stump. I thought he was a stump it was nearly dark.
Jardine and the car had gone down the road hoping to overtake Claude, though they were expected back again later; so, leaving Claude there, Hugh and "Just" Smith continued their seven-mile run. "Burr-r-r-r!" That was the telephone bell ringing. "Hugh, will you answer it, since the chances are the call is from some one of your numerous boy chums?" the voice of Mrs.
Far down the mountain we got out to look at a piece of remarkable loop-engineering a spiral where the road curves upon itself with such abruptness that when the regular train came down and entered the loop, we stood over it and saw the locomotive disappear under our bridge, then in a few moments appear again, chasing its own tail; and we saw it gain on it, overtake it, draw ahead past the rear cars, and run a race with that end of the train.
Two hundred yards, one fifty, one hundred yards, seventy-five, sixty, even fifty and again the pursued was spirited away in a cloud. Shelby bore it thrice, and raised his voice. Ruth's surprise was a delightful thing to see. "I've tried these three miles to overtake you," he scolded. "You must have heard me." Ruth surveyed the smoking cob. "We did hear a noise. My pony is so restive."
She contracted a grievous sickness, and though it was thought by all that saw her that death would certainly overtake her, she recovered, and God restored her youth, and bestowed unusual beauty upon her, so that renewed happiness awaited her husband, who had been deprived of the pleasures of conjugal life during her long illness. His unexpected joys were the reward of his piety and trust in God.
The chief told him that the bearded white man had left his village only the morning before, and that doubtless he would be able to overtake him in a short time. The other party the chief had not seen or heard of, so he said.
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