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One after another the wickets went down, and the batsmen returned from the field "with mournful steps and slow." Wally, seeing his chances diminishing, took liberties with the bowling, and hit wildly, with amazing luck in having catches missed. At last, however, he snicked a ball into cover-point's hands, and retired, amid great applause, having made forty-three.
And in another moment the light snicked out, the door closed, and he was alone in the silent room. For ten or a dozen minutes not even the bare suggestion of a noise disturbed the absolute stillness; then, of a sudden, his trained ear caught a faint sound that made him suck in his breath and rise on his elbow, the better to listen.
Milburgh stopped to regard approvingly. The same simple note of furniture and decoration was observable here. The furniture was good, the carpet under his feet thick and luxurious. He snicked down another switch and an electric radiator glowed in the fireplace. Then he sat down at the big table, which was the most conspicuous article of furniture in the room.
Every shadow I wasn't absolutely sure of I made sure of point-blank. And I rounded the thing up at the very stem sitting on the butt of the bowsprit, Ridgeway, washing her yellow face under the moon. I didn't make any bones about it this time. I put the bad end of that gun against the scar on her head and squeezed the trigger. It snicked on an empty shell.
"But we waste time, Dessauer; we can speak of ancestors and successors anon. I and Hugo Gottfried want you to take up your ancient role. Do you mind how you snicked Axelstein, and clipped Duke Casimir of his little finger at the back of the barn, when we were all lads at the Kaiser's first diet at Augsburg?" Old Dessauer smiled, well pleased enough at the excellence of the Prince's memory.
Then a throwing spear snicked the trunk of a tree, and another, for there were no soldiers, and this congregation of exorcisers were mad with wrath at the thought of the evil which Tibbetti was preparing for them. "Snick!" A spear struck Bones' boot. "Shut your eyes, baby," said Bones, and fired into the brown. Then he ran for his life.
Again he nodded, and notched spark and throttle down. The car, leaping like a wild creature, began to hum at a swift clip along the smooth, white road toward Newburgh on the Hudson. Thirty miles an hour the speedometer showed, then thirty-five and forty. Again the drunken chauffeur, still master of his machine despite the poison pulsing in his dazed brain, snicked the little levers further down.
"And when I had finished my repast," said I, "you amazed me by handing me a cigar from the tobacco-plant." "I handed it," said Oliver. "I snicked off the end," said David. "And then," said I, "you gave me a light." "Which of us?" they cried together. "Both of you," I said. "Never shall I forget my amazement when I saw you get that light by rubbing two sticks together."
I put my weight to the lever and hove the post down into the niche. Immediately there was a sharp clang, as some catch snicked in, and held it against the powerful operating spring. I went over now to the dummy, and after a few minute's work managed to wrench the dagger loose out of the armor.
"Now, see here," he said more quietly, as he pointed to his head again; "this isn't worth anything; but you've cornered me, so I can't get out. But, if I pay you, you must give me back a nickel, to pay for the hole you snicked out of my ear." Marjorie's face fell. She had been hoping that he would not notice the little red spot on the tip of his left ear.
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