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"Well, as you probably noticed, shortly after sunset the wind breezed up quite strongly; but I was not in the least uneasy, for the barometer had ceased to drop before eight bells, and, although the sky was overcast and the night very dark, there was nothing threatening in the look of the weather, and it was only occasionally that we really tautened out our cables.
"All right, Peter, I no like boat," and in another moment Proctor had passed the child down into the boat, into the arms of the native sailor whose place he was taking, and quickly followed. As she drifted astern, the Kate Rennie went about, the towline tautened out, and a delighted laugh broke from the boy as he sat beside Proctor and saw the white canvas of the barque looming up before him.
Thus equipped he was just closing the door after him when another thought struck him and he returned to slip a coil of light, strong sash-cord, 36 J 9078, over his shoulders to his waist where he deftly tautened it. He had seen railroad wrecks before.
Rage, no less than the laborious exertion of the descent, had dried up his body with its feverish fire. Almost maddened with the torment of his craving, he looped the rope on the spike-head with reckless haste and slid down over the edge of the cliff. As the line tautened with his weight it gave several inches, but he was too nearly frantic to heed.
John saw the soldier put the instrument to his lips, as if he would make ready, and he knew that an important movement was at hand. He tautened his own figure that he might be ready. The artillery fire behind them ceased suddenly. The air there had been roaring with thunder, and then all at once it became as silent as the grave. The bugler leaped to his feet and blew a long and mellow note.
A yard or two on this side of them, two men tuck their waist clothes round their hips and go in with their oxen; both the yellowy-brown men and the oxen seem to enjoy it, and come out with the sun in high lights on their tautened muscles.
Nor was Molly directly behind him when Frances threw the lariat. The rope tautened from the side and at the very instant the mad steer collided with Sue Latrop's mount. The wicked head of the steer banged against the horse's body, which gave forth a hollow sound; the horse himself squealed, stumbled, and went over with a crash. Fortunately Sue had known enough to loosen her foot from the stirrup.
The propeller raced madly; then the engine stopped dead. "Out oars! Look alive, men!" was the ensign's command. The clumsy raft tugged at the end of her hawse. The yawl went over the top of the wave and began to coast dizzily down the descent. The rope which held it to its tow cut through the swell. It tautened it snapped!
A familiar voice, issuing from the lips of the faun a voice made natural and audible as the living human tones, by means of a delicate microphone attachment inside the bronze head tautened his nerves. "Hello, hello!" called he. "That you, Bohannan?" "Yes," sounded the answer. "Of course I know who you are. There's only one voice like yours in New York. Where are you?" "In prison." "No! Prison?
Suddenly every nerve of her tautened. Supposing supposing she returned there, never to emerge again? No chance encounter could ever then bring her within sight or sound of Michael. She would be spared watching the old, eager look of admiration fade suddenly from the grey eyes she loved. Hour after hour she lay there, dry-eyed, staring into the darkness. And with the dawn her decision was taken.
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