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There were some items of news, all rather unpleasant. In two or three households hens had been taken for the arrears, and had been sent to the district police station, and there they had died because no one had fed them; they had taken sheep, and while they were being driven away tied to one another, shifted into another cart at each village, one of them had died.
"I say, Austin stop a minute!" his host called after him. Wrayford turned, and the two men faced each other across the hearth-rug. Stilling's eyes shifted uneasily. "There's one thing more you can do for me before you leave. Tell Isabel about that loan; explain to her that she's got to sign a note for it." Wrayford, in his turn, flushed slightly. "You want me to tell her?" "Hang it!
Wheeling short round, he sat back in the saddle, shifted his rifle into his right hand, reined in his steed, and spurred him over the brink. The old horse never faltered, but plunged headlong down the steep, boulder-covered, cliff-broken slope.
"Lookin' up a little affair, that's all. Powerful chilly, ain't it?" "Very." She stood on the opposite side of the stove, puzzled by this unexpected visit, looking at him with undisguised curiosity. "Ever been to Chicago?" asked Anderson suddenly, hoping to catch her unawares. "Oh, yes. I have lived there," she answered readily. He shifted his legs twice and took a hasty pull at his whiskers.
Meanwhile, without a word, Gaston had mounted, ridden to the castle, and passed through the open gates into the court-yard. Inside he paused. In the main building many lights were burning. There came a rattle of wheels behind him, and he shifted to let a carriage pass.
The girl had shifted her position till, instead of her full face, her profile was turned toward him.
Tolliver came on up, set the child down, and took off his overcoat. "Fact is," he drawled, "I got held back a minute sort of unexpected." His eyes fixed the impatient man. "What you planning to do, Joe, between now and relieving me at midnight?" Joe shifted his feet. "Don't know," he said uncomfortably. "What you bring the kid for? Want me to drop him at the house?" Tolliver shook his head.
For a long half minute, face to face there in the moonlight, Landor waited; but no answer came. Just perceptibly he shifted in his place. "I may forget, give my promise of the morning the lie. Do you understand?" "Yes, I understand." Another half minute, ghastly in its significance, passed; then without a word Landor turned. "You have heard, men," he said, "and may God be my judge."
He cleared off the Jeep and crunched slowly down the hill. As the clouds shifted, the light changed from gray to white and back to gray. The Jeep slid around a little, not much. He had concrete blocks in the back, three by each wheel. The heater threw out a blast of hot air. Four wheel drive is great, he told the world. People were brushing snow from their cars and shoveling walks.
Far as I know, nobody else has got it from them. Go ahead give it a try." "I was going to." Trigger snapped the container shut, slipped the strap over her shoulder and stood straight, left hand closed over the lower rim of the purselike object. She shifted the ball of her thumb and the tip of her middle finger to the correct spots and began to apply pressure. Then she started.