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By and by a deep baying broke out and swelled into a burst of thrilling sound, the horn called sharply, somebody shouted, and there was a rush of well-mounted riders towards a corner of the gorse. Then the hounds streamed out, speeding across the grassy slope with a small, red-brown object travelling very fast some distance in front.
He was so frightened that he did not realise how tired and hungry he was until he had done a considerable distance, stumbling at every step, and at times falling prone upon the ground. His bruises he hardly felt until he had almost reached the foot of the long slope down which he was speeding. Then a great weakness came upon him, and his body trembled.
Oh! what a foolish mother you were to lead him right into danger." Tom was silent and looked pretty solemn, while Helen was scolding him nervously although she knew that he was not really at fault. "If you hadn't been speeding, this wouldn't have happened, Tom Cameron!" she said. "I told you so." "Oh, all right. You're a fine prophetess," grunted her brother. "Keep on rubbing it in."
At the turn of the lane there were three apple trees, early Shepherd Sweetings, and here Billie slipped down and lay breathing heavily, his hands hunting for windfalls in the tall grass. Kit passed him by, speeding the full length of the lane, and bringing up at the end of the log-run, before the old mill. "Billie Ellis, you come out of there," she called.
Had there been several ponies coursing ahead of him, he would not have found it so hard to understand matters, for he would have concluded that they were an independent party, making all haste to reach some point, but he could not read the meaning of a single warrior speeding in this fashion. "Whoever he was he lost no time," mused Warren, breaking into a loping trot, for his own haste was great.
And with a flash of white teeth he was gone. Roy, left staring into the fire, followed him in imagination, speeding through the silent city out into the region of skulls and eye-sockets a flying shadow in the moonlight with murder in its heart....
By that time the Fenley car was speeding rapidly down the avenue. "With luck," he said to Winter, who had joined him, "with any sort of luck both brothers should pass their father's body on the way to the mortuary. Sometimes, O worthy chief, I find myself regretting the ways and means of the days of old, when men believed in the Judicium Dei. "Neither of those sons went near his dead father.
Success had rewarded their efforts, and once more the big bomber was speeding through its own element on the wings of the wind.
Hurriedly he bridled and saddled Pat, rushed him out of the stable, flung up across his back, and put spur to him with such vigor that he was forced into a gait the like of which he had not taken since his breathless speeding to the accompaniment of shots. Out across the desert he raced, breasting a cold wind, on and on till he found himself in a small railroad town.
Automobiles loaded with singing passengers scurried after their own beams of silver light down the boulevards. At first a continuous line of speeding cars; then thinning with long gaps between; then longer gaps with only an occasional car; then the quiet, lasting for minutes unbroken, so that the wind could be heard in the eucalyptus trees that here and there lined the boulevard.
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