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"What are you?" "A carpenter," I said. The man turned upon his heel with a loud, rasping laugh and shut the door in my face. For a moment I stood there stunned. His ascending steps on the stairs brought back my senses. I ran to the door, and flung it open. "You laugh!"
In the rear, the waves lashed us as though they had a mind to arrest our progress; from the gloom to our front came a sort of scraping and rasping; long black hands seemed to wave over our heads; just at the point where the mountain crests lay swathed in their dense coverlet of cloud, there rumbled once more the deafening iron chariot of the thunder-god; more and more frequently flashed the lightning as the earth rang, and rifts cleft by the blue glare disclosed, amid the obscurity, great trees that were rustling and rocking and, to all appearances, racing headlong before the scourge of a cold, slanting rain.
Once, I mind, when M. Radisson came suddenly on these two worthies, their fuddled heads were close together above the table. "Look you," Ben was saying in a big, rasping whisper, "I shot him I shot him with a brass button. The black arts are powerless agen brass. Devil sink my soul if I didn't shoot him! The red spattered over the brush " M. Radisson raised a hand to silence my coming.
"You heard me!" cried Hiram, fear and anger rasping in his tones. "I say, I want to go ashore, and, damme, I'm goin'!" "Take your shoes in your hand and wade," gritted the Cap'n. "I ain't stoppin' you." He still scorned to explain to the meddlesome landsman. "I can carry a grudge myself," blustered Hiram. "But I finally stop to think of others that's dependent on me.
"Those are certainly very strong inducements," said Harry, meditating upon the delightfulness of relief from the myriad of rasping little annoyances which rendered every day of camp-life an infliction. "Yes, and still farther, you will never need to go under fire, or expose yourself to danger of any kind, unless you choose to."
All day Sunday and Monday the storm blew with unabated fury and the three were held close prisoners in the tilt. On Monday night it cleared, and Tuesday morning came clear and rasping cold. Long before daylight breakfast was eaten and preparations made for travelling.
The Pilgrim was sprawled upon the bunk with his face in his arms, snoring in a peculiarly rasping way that Billy, heavy-eyed as he was, resented most unreasonably. Also, the untidy table showed that the Pilgrim had eaten unstintedly and Billy was exceedingly hungry. He went over and lifted a snowy boot to the ribs of the sleeper and commanded him bluntly to "Come alive."
And the word that came rasping and resounding on it out of storm-skies high over Olympus, for Athens then and the world since to hear, was KARMA. He took that theme, and drove it home, and drove it home, and drove it home. Athens disregarded the rights and sufferings of others; was in fact abominably cruel.
Yet not a sound of their stealthy passage was wafted back to us on the wind no echo of voice, no rasping of foot, no rustle of leaves. Ghosts could not have moved more silently. Some way the very thought that these grim savages were thus creeping forward to attack, and kill, their hearts mad with hate, wild beasts of prey stalking their victims, yielded me a strange feeling of horror.
Next spoke the stoat, the swash-buckler. He cleared his throat with a short, rasping bark, glared round him, and began "I am the only flesh-eater among you all," said he. The hedgehog's smile broadened, but he said nothing. "Therefore I have bigger game to tackle than any of you. Therefore I am better armed. Scores of bats I have eaten in my time.
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