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He was up in an instant, however, his brain afire with rage, his muscles tingling with eagerness. He did not think of the gun at his hip, for the lust of murder was in his soul and he wanted only to hit the man to seize him and tear him apart to crush and smash the vile hands that he had seen at the girl's throat.
"Reverse her, reverse her!" cried the other engineer, with fear in his voice. "Reverse nothing," said Saggart. "She'll slide ten miles if you do. Jump, if you're afraid." The man from the branch line promptly jumped. "Save yourself," said Saggart to the stoker; "there's bound to be a smash." "I'll stick by you, Mr. Saggart," said the fireman, who knew him. But his hand trembled.
His dark face was illumined by one of his rare smiles. "Coming with us, Orme? Do you good. Pile into the tonneau, you two, and hang on to your hair. I'm going to smash the law." Peter sauntered up to the steering-wheel. "Let me drive," he said. "I'm not bad at it." "Nix with the artless amateur," returned Blackie. "This ain't no demonstration car.
In his excessive devotion to "hard facts" his emotional nature atrophied, until the many valuable cues or suggestions about the conduct of his business and the training of his children that a kindlier nature would have caught from the events occurring about him, failed to affect him, and on that account he went to smash.
Peg now sat down contentedly, his tongue lolling out in a satisfied grin. Breed's tactics changed and he wheeled round his disabled enemy with lightning feints; then his shoulder struck Flatear with a solid smash that crumpled him and he went down with Breed's teeth at his windpipe. His end was of the sort which he himself had handed to so many others, and the new range was safe for coyotes.
Alf racked his brains, puffing a little and arching his brows at the two girls, who seemed both to be listening, Emmy intently, as though she were repeating his words to herself. He went on: "Tram smash in Newcastle. Car went off the points. Eleven injured. Nobody killed...." "I don't call that much," said Jenny, critically, with a pin in her mouth. "Not much more than I told him an hour ago.
"What of that?" "That typewriter has a few bad keys, Sid. And I discovered this that the notes sent to the barber and merchant, that caused them to lie and try to smash your alibi, were written on the typewriter in George Lerton's office!" Prale sprang to his feet. "Then Lerton has something to do with this!" he cried. "He tried to get me to leave town, and he tried to break down my alibi.
The so-called lecture was the foulest thing that ever fell from the lips of mortal man, yet his audience gloated over it and rolled his putrid falsehoods as sweet morsels under its tongue. Unable to restrain my indignation, I arose and denounced his every utterance as a malicious lie. Immediately the audience yelled, "Throw him out! Down with him! Smash him!"
"Those are the shares which you will transfer to me at the price I suggest." "I'll see you damned first," roared Crotin, bringing his hand down smash on the table. "Sit down again for one moment." The colonel's voice was gentle but insistent. "Do you know Maggie Delman?" Suddenly Crotin's face went white.
But if they wanted to do serious damage of course I mean to the paper," he apologized with a grim smile, "why didn't they come down here some of them during your absence, and smash things up? That would have made the thing sure for them." Potter laughed mirthlessly. "Of course they could have done that," he said; "it would have been easy will be easy any time.
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