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Then a confused, dull murmur broke itself into the measured thud of heavy footsteps rapidly approaching. They were in the passage outside the room. They paused at the door. The door opened. There was a sharp snick as the electric light was turned on. The door closed once more, and the pungent reek of a strong cigar was borne to our nostrils.
Her brother's "Precisely" cut across that sentence with a snick like a pair of shears and left a little silence behind it. "I think she'll be along in a minute," he went on. "She always does come to breakfast. Why did you think she wouldn't to-day?" This was one of Miss Wollaston's minor crosses.
"Why then, Roger, do ye beset him in prayer, so, while thou dost hold him in play thus, I will snick away thy solitary notch so sweetly he shall never know " "Alack, 'twill not avail, Giles. I must needs bear this notch with me unto the grave, belike." "Nay, Roger, I will to artifice and subtle stratagem on thy behalf as mark me! I do know a pool beside the way!
Instead of replying to my question, he eyed me for some time in silence with sullen, yellow-shot eyes, and then closed his knife with a loud snick. "You're not a beak," he said, "too young for that, I guess. They had me in chokey at Paisley and they had me in chokey at Wigtown, but by the living thunder if another of them lays a hand on me I'll make him remember Corporal Rufus Smith!
"That's the sort of cricket I like," said Gordon; "a splendid contempt for all laws and regulations. Heavens! there he goes again!" A lucky snick flew over the slips to the boundary. "This is something like," said Foster, and prepared to enjoy himself. And certainly Bray's cricket was entertaining.
"I'll drive the lock back if you will both stand by. If he rises let him have it on the head with your hammer, carpenter. Shoot at once, sir, if he raises his hand. Now!" He had knelt down in front of the striped chest, and passed the blade of the tool under the lid. With a sharp snick the lock flew back. "Stand by!" yelled the mate, and with a heave he threw open the massive top of the box.
And before his father could answer him he was gone. Polson was gone, so far, only to his own room, but so swiftly that it was impossible to intercept him, and the snick of the bolt in the lock arrested his father before he had set a single foot upon the stair.
The door might have been slammed by a sudden puff of wind owing to some inner door being opened; and as for the grip on the handle, that may have been nothing more than the snick catching. "With regard to the kisses and the sounds of the horse galloping, I pointed out that these might have seemed ordinary enough sounds, if they had been only cool enough to reason.
That's queer. All the better for us. You might get a bit finer, Challis, in case they snick 'em." Wayburn, who had accompanied Fenn to the wicket at the beginning of Kay's first innings, had now for his partner one Walton, a large, unpleasant-looking youth, said to be a bit of a bruiser, and known to be a black sheep. He was one of those who made life at Kay's so close an imitation of an Inferno.
'Help, help; he is killing Monsieur Bernac! 'Where is he? shouted Savary. 'There! The library! The door with the green curtain! Again that horrible cry rang out, dying down to a harsh croaking. It ended in a loud, sharp snick, as when one cracks one's joint, but many times louder. I knew only too well what that dreadful sound portended.
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