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"It entails a lot of trouble," the governor of Outradroog said. "They have to be watched incessantly, and one never feels certain they may not slip away. Look at this place. You would think that no one could make his escape; and yet, some ten years ago, fourteen of them got away from here. They slid down a precipice, where no one would have thought a human being could have got down alive.
"Bad for us," said Mr Brooke, as we sat together astern steering, and keeping a sharp look ahead for the expected enemy. "Why?" I asked. "Getting so dark, my lad. We shall be having the junks pass us." "Oh no, sir. Ching is keen-sighted, and all the men are looking out very eagerly." "Ah, well, I hope they will not slip by. They must not, Herrick.
I would not for the world insinuate that he wishes she would slip and twist her foot a little, just a little, you know, but so that it would have to be laid on a pillow in a chair, and inspected, and bandaged, and delicately manipulated. There was a banana-skin which she might naturally have trodden on, in her way to the tea-table.
Then, as soon as it was possible, I mustered the few survivors who seemed able to move, ordered them to slip the anchor, leaped for the bridge and ran the engine for full speed astern. The second and the third engineer and a fireman were on watch below and so escaped injury.
That evening, when Knowles and Gowan returned from their day of range riding, the younger man noticed a crumpled slip of paper lying against the foot of the corral post below the place where he tossed up his saddle. He picked it up and looked to see if it was of any value. An oath burst from his thin-drawn lips. "Shut up, Kid!" remonstrated Knowles.
She, too, would wait. Not ten days but until she might slip away without this danger of being seen, of her errand being guessed. In the meantime she would learn what she could. She had not forgotten that Henry Pollard was her uncle. The thought added its bitterness.
"Oh, I don't mind now," sobbed Caroline. "I don't mind now. It was only when I thought " "Hush!" said Godfrey, moving away. "What's that?" "It sounds like Miss Armitage coming down," said Caroline, hurrying towards the door. "I'll slip out as quickly as I " She drew back. "Oh!"
"I had no wish to be offensive, though I meant what I said. Suppose this fellow goes off again for good as soon as he has sold his wheat?" "That will have to be guarded against. He will be watched; if he leaves his farm, he will be followed." "He gave you the slip neatly on a previous occasion." "Quite true," said the officer. "Our men are not infallible.
But since he had accomplished something, though he did not know what, inasmuch as the slip of paper lay crushed in his hand unread, he must, he decided, pay for it. Without ado he stepped to the platform. "I have explained to Mrs. Manners and to these ladies," he said gravely, "that I am not the gentleman who was to sing for you. However, since he is detained, I will do what I can."
The opportunity seemed much too good to be let slip, so calling his bowmen and musketeers up on to the poop, he directed them to discharge a volley into the surging mass of men, which they did instantly, with terribly destructive effect.
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