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Already my lips were opened, when round the corner of the rough lane by which Braster Grange was approached on this side came a doctor's gig. Ray shaded his eyes and gazed at its occupant. "Is this Bouriggs, Ducaine?" he asked, "the man who shot with us?" "It is Dr. Bouriggs," I answered.
"And when we get 'em, we can wait and live on meat until the river goes up in fall then float on down to the Indian villages in their canoe," Chan answered. "It will carry four of us, all right." Ray, Chan, Neilson and Neilson's daughter these made four. What remained of Ben when Ray was through could be left, silent upon some hushed hillside, to the mercy of the wild creatures and the elements.
Ray had noticed, when Peter interrupted him during office hours, on matters not relating to business, that he had a big or complex question in hand. Peter closed the door and went back to his room. Then he took a fifth sheet of paper, and wrote: "WATTS: A day's thought has brought a change of feeling on my part. Neither can be the better for alienation or unkind thoughts.
By-and-by, however, the bolt was drawn, the door opened, and Jane Ray spoke to me in a tone of kindness. She had taken an opportunity to slip into the cellar unnoticed on purpose to see me. She unbound the gag, and took it out of my mouth, and told me she would do any thing to get me out of my dungeon.
There was no saddle, but as he was used to riding bare-backed he could endure it indefinitely. Then the chief did a surprising thing, binding a piece of soft deerskin over Will's eyes so tightly that not a ray of light entered. "Why do you do that, Heraka?" asked the lad. "That you may not see which way you go, nor what is by the path as you ride.
Then abruptly their weapons came up and Arcot responded with a sudden flick of his ray, as he flung himself to one side. Simultaneously his four companions let their beams fly toward the invaders. They glowed strangely red here, but they were still effective. The six beings were suddenly gone but not before they had released their own beams. And they had taken toll.
Or this odour might have been caused by the fusing of the telephone; for the blue ray destroys such fragile things as telephones as easily as it destroys wood and paper! There is even a large round hole burned through the clay at the back of the study grate and through the brick wall behind it! Very well.
They went their way rejoicing, and with them passed the solitary ray of sunshine that streamed athwart the dark horrors of the emigrant ship, like the wandering pencil of light that sometimes visits the condemned cell of a prison.
"I thought I heard him say `Rex." But he kept on to the next floor and stopped before the door of the room which was directly under his own. He paused, hesitated, looking up at a ray of light which came out from a crack in the transom. "It's too late," he muttered, and turned away irresolutely. A clear voice called from within, "Entrez donc, Monsieur." He opened the door and went in.
It was as if some doomed soul were looking out through the bars of a prison fortress, without a single ray of hope to break the gloom, without a single thought to cheer or comfort. And so Peace, in her childish ignorance, asked, "Are you a lady?" "A woman grown," the sweet voice answered, and a faint smile of amusement flitted across the marble-white face.
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