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In due time there was a sound of scuffling and protest on the stairs outside, and Doubleday reappeared dragging in Billy.
And so they have come, drinking, swearing, singing, fighting and scuffling with one another. They have spent the night in taverns. In the morning they have slept off their drunkenness and have gathered together at the Zemsky Court-house. Inside the office the work was going on rapidly. The door is opened and the guard calls Piotr Sidorov.
'Ay! ay! if it might be so! the signora wailed out. The count hated tears, considering them a clog to all useful machinery. He was departing, when through the open window a noise of scuffling in the street below arrested him. 'Has it commenced? he said, starting. 'What? asked the signora, coolly; and made him pause. 'But-but-but! he answered, and had the grace to spare her ears.
The moment that their hands gripped, the trick was clear, for the Indians exerted their strength to drag off the white men. Desperate scuffling ensued in which the whites with difficulty freed themselves and ran for the fort. Calloway had prepared for emergencies. The pursuing Indians were met with a deadly fire. After a defeated attempt to mine the fort the enemy withdrew.
He stopped at the fork and looked back, for none of his men was following. He caught the sound of scuffling of clattering hoofs, and grunts and shouted oaths and started to run back, since even a native hakim may protect his own, should he care to, even in the "Hills." For the sake of principle he chose the other passage, for Cocker says, "Look! Look! Look!"
She heard him scuffling on the sand, fired again and missed fired yet again and heard him cry out, gasping, begging for mercy. The range was too short for her to hear the impact of the bullets; she did not know she had struck him with two shots, the second of which had broken his leg and left him disabled. She had shot a man. He was there in front of her, about to die.
The consequence was that we got into this Rochester depot aforesaid after dark, and the steamboat, the canal- boat, and the Western train of cars had all been kept waiting three hours beyond their usual time, and they all broke loose upon us the moment we put our heads out of the cars, and such a jerking, and elbowing, and scuffling, and swearing, and protesting, and scolding you never heard, while the great locomotive sailed up and down in the midst thereof, spitting fire and smoke like some great fiend monster diverting himself with our commotions.
About two minutes of silence succeeded to the sudden cessation of the Russians' voices on deck, and then the muffled crack of a pistol-shot rang out from the Kinshiu's interior, instantly followed by a shout of "Banzai Nippon!" and the crack of several rifles; there arose a sudden outburst of yells and execrations in Russian, a stampede of many feet along the deck, the sounds of a scuffling hand-to-hand fight, a volley of orders from the Russian officer in command of the boarding party, a hoarse hail from one of the warships, and then the rattle and splash of oars hastily thrown out.
And in that same instant Chicago Red had pounced on his victim, the huge hand clapped tight over the young man's mouth. Even as his powerful arm held the newcomer in an inescapable embrace, there came a sound of scuffling feet and that was all. Finally the big man's voice came triumphantly. "I've got him." "It's Dick!" The cry came as a wail of despair from the girl.
"Will they be out here all winter?" asked Meyers, who was a newcomer in Lloydsborough. "Yes, their father and mother have gone to Florida, and left them here with their grandmother Maclntyre." "I imagine the old lady has her hands full," said Meyers, as a sound of scuffling in the next room reached him. "Oh, I don't know about that, now," said the station-master.
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