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Rol sprawled forward to survey the room, and contemplate another journey under the table. His shoulder, thrusting forward, checked the wheel for an instant; he shifted hastily. The wheel flew on with a jerk, and the thread snapped. "Naughty Rol!" said the girl.
"There never was any such woman there never could have been any such woman," Hiram went on in fervid protest. "There ain't nobody with a license to chase me up." "Ditto and the same," chimed in Cap'n Sproul. "No one!" "No one!" echoed the Cap'n. They stood and looked at each other a little while, and then their eyes shifted in some embarrassment.
At length he looked up at her, and seemed anxious to communicate. Indeed, his eyes almost pleaded for some reassurance. She thought to herself, then offered a simple question. 'Kalus? What are the rest of your people like? He shifted positions, drew one knee toward him, then answered. 'They are no longer my people. I am banished..... For what they are like, I don't know how to tell you.
"Yes," Father Adam went on. "And, like your notion, it was something not easily shifted from his mind. It was planned and figured to the last detail. It was so planned it could not fail. So he thought. So all concerned thought. You see, he had ten million dollars capital of his own; and he was something of a genius at figures and finance his people reckoned.
It was late on the Saturday night that the family shifted into the new house; and fortunate it was that they had no further occasion for delay, for on the Sunday the first storm burst upon them; the wind blew with great force; and, although they were shielded from it, still the cocoa-nut trees ground and sawed each other's stems as they bent their heads to its force.
He immediately became the great man of the moment, and had just begun a new edition of the narrative with a voice like a field-preacher when the mail-stage drove into the village street. It had travelled all night, and must have shifted horses at Kimballton at three in the morning. "Now we shall hear all the particulars!" shouted the crowd.
The following morning a motion was introduced to reconsider; and in the debate that followed, Krebs, still defiant, took an active part. But the resolution required a two-thirds vote, and was lost. When the battle was shifted to the Senate it was as good as lost.
The crew, now reduced to ten working hands, had, with an almost miraculous promptitude, knotted and spliced the rigging, mended and shifted sails, fished the sprung and wounded spars, and plugged and nailed lead over the shot holes, and all within half an hour.
Damon carried the bullion to the diving chamber of the Advance. They put the yellow bars inside, and when quite a number had been thus shifted, Mr. Swift, closing the chamber, pumped the water out and removed the gold. Then he opened the chamber to the divers again, and the process was repeated, until all the bullion had been secured.
Ned shifted the noose to the man's wrists, which were fastened behind his back, and relieved him of a revolver and a wicked-looking knife. Then he asked: "Were you watching me?" "Yes," was the short reply, in good English. "You knew that I was in the house?" "Yes. I saw you go in." "Do the others know that I was in there?" asked Ned, then, anxiously.
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