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He saw the trigger finger contracting; saw Trevison's free hand clenched, the muscles corded and knotted he felt the breathless, strained, unreal calm that precedes tragedy, grim and swift. He slowly stiffened, but did not shrink an inch. It took him seconds to raise his gaze to Trevison's face, and then he caught his breath quickly and smiled with straight lips.
McElroy, the truth is not in you!" "I beg your pardon?" he stiffened slightly. "I am saying the truth is not in you," she directly answered. "When you first came here tonight, you took a cigarette from your case and lighted it." "I should never have been so careless if something weren't on my mind," he laughed now. "The truth the true truth is that I needed a drink of wicked whiskey. Forgive me?"
The next night he ran again; and on the sixth morning he panted into the Mandan town, with the dried blood of Wongatap on his lance's blade and the stiffened scalp of Wongatap hanging to its handle. So that was why he cherished the lance, and that was why he considered the loose eagle's feather to be a strong medicine from the Great Spirit.
The cab turned into the gateway of the dock. Flora handed the tall hat to her father. "Here, papa. And please be good. I suppose you love me. If you don't, then I wonder who " He put the hat on, and stiffened hard in his corner, kept a sidelong glance on his girl. "Try to be nice for my sake. Think of the years I have been waiting for you. I do indeed want support and peace. A little peace."
His feet were on the floor as he sat on the edge of the bed preparatory to standing, when he saw the door at the head of the stairs slowly swing open and a figure of a man appear in the opening. The light in the room was faint a mere luminous star-mist hut Maison could see clearly the man's face. He stiffened, his hands gripping the bedclothing, as he muttered hoarsely: "Sanderson!"
Though our eyes instantly turned toward the spot from which the voice seemed to emanate, there was no one in sight, and I must admit that cold shivers played along my spine and the short hairs at the base of my head stiffened and rose up, as do those upon a hound's neck when in the night his eyes see those uncanny things which are hidden from the sight of man.
The triangular head flattened back for the delayed stroke at the ashen face of the man. The billowing coils stiffened the stroke started. In the same instant came a report that to the strained ears of the man sounded like the crashing roar of a cannon. The head and forepart of the snake's body shot alongside his face, writhing in swift convulsions.
Woe to the parents who fall into it, and the children who are its object! When the will is truly strong, far from being obstinate it is, on the contrary, pliant and tractable. No human power can restore suppleness to the arm which a convulsive paroxysm has stiffened, yet it does not follow that this arm is stronger than when it was in a healthy condition.
On seeing this man, the porters paused for a moment, for he looked like one of those stone images, kneeling to all eternity on a mediaeval tomb, the work of some stone-carver's genius. The sham priest, with eyes as bright as a tiger's, but stiffened into supernatural rigidity, so impressed the men that they gently bid him rise. "Why?" he asked mildly.
She said it with the air of a young princess who is in the habit of having her wishes gratified. The Judge laughed again. "How is it, Mrs. Batcheller?" he asked. "May Anne go?" The little grandmother shook her head. "I don't often let her leave me," she said. "But I want her," said Judy, sharply, and at her tone the little grandmother's back stiffened.
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