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They traversed an alley, black and reeking with nightly smells, pausing at last on the verge of a lighted street whence rose the sound of human mirth, bits of vulgar song, and the barking of vagrant dogs. "S-h-h-h!" cautioned Ringtail. "You wait till I counts to t'ree, den make a rush fer de alley acrost de street see?" "But, why?" asked Omar Ben, wondering.
But you was the lucky man. How is Missis Telfair?" "S-h-h-h!" said the dogman, signalling the waiter; "give it a name." "Whiskey," said Jim. "Make it two," said the dogman. "She's well," he continued, after his chaser. "She refused to live anywhere but in New York, where she came from. We live in a flat. Every evening at six I take that dog out for a walk. It's Marcella's pet.
While it had not punctured the skin, the spur had raked the coat, showing that the rowel had been applied with considerable force. Tad, with a covert glance about, saw Ned Rector watching him. "You're the guilty one, eh?" he demanded, walking up to Ned. "S-h-h-h," cautioned Ned. "He'll be redheaded if he knows I am to blame for his coming a cropper." "Chunky's not so slow as you might think.
Hear 'em growl at each other?" "S-h-h-h." "I don't care. I'd 'bout as soon be scalped as to starve to death." The braves had by now filled their stomachs, gulping their food down without the formality of chewing it at all. Stacy's amazement was partly mixed with admiration as he observed the food disappear with such rapidity. Now the braves had begun puffing at their pipes.
"Five minutes, and we're safe, there and back again. S-h-h-h! Don't hurry! Count, now count your steps one, two, three four, five, six steady, steady! Now they were ten yards from the tower, now twenty. Bravely they walked, now straight ahead among the trees, now circling some individual, some horrid group. Stern held the water-pail firmly. He gripped the revolver in a grasp of iron.
It had altered, grown higher, nobler, purer it had become that of mate and equal, comrade, friend, the indissoluble other half of man. Beatrice spoke. "You mustn't take more of the weight than I do, Allan," she insisted, as they struggled onward with their burden. "Your wounded arm isn't strong enough yet to " "S-h-h-h!" he cautioned. "We've got to keep as quiet as possible.
"S-h-h-h! Wait and see what's up!" Now, from the other horde, coming from the north, sounds of warlike preparation were growing ever louder. With quicker beats the insistent tom-toms throbbed their rhythmic melancholy rune, hollow and dissonant.
I said 's-h-h-h, and told him not to say anything or the man would maul me. Then I went back to the seat and asked Pa to buy me a gold watch, and he looked mad and cuffed me on the ear. The man that I whispered too got talking with some other men, and when we got off the cars at Chicago a policeman came up to Pa and took him by the neck and said, 'Mr.
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