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We have occasionally knocked off one or two of the giants, who, falling alive into the midst of their enemies, were surrounded, spread-eagled, trampled upon, and either lacerated to death, or killed by their own formic acid, in a very short space of time indeed.
A dim figure lolled against an overturned gun. As the lad gazed, it pointed to a puddle beside it. "That's me," it said with slow and solemn interest. The boy trod on something in the smoke. A bloody wraith, spread-eagled upon the deck, raised tired eyes to his. "That's all right, sir," came a whisper. "Don't make no odds. I got all I want." A hand out of the mist clutched his ankle.
These animals were spread-eagled in the most amazing fashion, their fore-hoofs reaching beyond their noses and their rear hoofs striking out beyond the tips of the tails. The jockey in the lead sat quite still, but he who was losing had his whip drawn and looked like an automatic doll so pink were his cheeks.
In the effort to recover himself he darted out his left over the edge of the bank. Harry impelled him; the Major loosed his hold and set to work to save himself none too soon: both his legs were over, his feet touched water, he lay spread-eagled on the bank, half on, half off, in a ludicrous attitude; still he slipped and could not get a hold on the short slimy grass.
When the wretched man was securely "spread-eagled" on the grating, Talbot and another man were ordered to step forward and administer the flogging, which they did, relieving each other at the completion of every dozen lashes, until the entire fifty had been inflicted.
The halter flew from Brown's hands, he rolled and bumped and clutched at clumps of grass and bushes. Then he struck the beach and stopped, spread-eagled on the wet sand. A voice said: "Well by TIME!" Brown looked up. Seth Atkins, a paint pail in one hand and a dripping brush in the other, was standing beside him, blank astonishment written on his features.
"Yes?" said I with a polite but spurious show of interest. "Under a pull. Spread-eagled his field." "Who is Whiplash, may I ask?" "Oh, Gaw!" said the pink man, appalled. He searched my face suspiciously. "A hoss," he stated at length, satisfied of my ignorance.
He was spread-eagled on the deck now, his muscles unable to move his increased weight. Consciousness began to slip from him, and he fought against it. He had to remain alive! He was going to! For a brief moment he succeeded, then the grayness moved in like an all-encompassing curtain. Pegasus climbed into the blue sky, arrow-straight, still accelerating. The seconds ticked away.
With the quick dexterity of a seaman, he tied his spread-eagled hands and feet with a rope which was passed underneath, and gagged him securely with the long cravat which used to adorn the chin of the Governor of St. Kitt's. "Now, Captain Scarrow, we must take our leave of you," said the pirate.
As the cry, the reassuring cry, came ringing down to her, Pemrose felt the blood start again from where it was frozen at the back of her neck and surge through her flattened body, which, greenly spread-eagled against that gray rock, the head turned slightly aside, was not unlike the quaint Indian figure of the Thunder Bird upon a pedestal, the emblem of her father's invention.
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