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They are arresting, thrilling, tense with throbbing life, and of absorbing interest; they tell of romantic and passionate episodes in many lands in the hill districts of India, in the burning heart of Africa, and in the colonial bush country.
Her trembling hands clung to him, her head dropped on his breast, and the perfume of her hair in his nostrils drove him mad. Then the tense bulk of her body struck against him, and horror filled his soul. One second he held her, the next, Jimmy smothering under the hay, threw up an arm, and called like a petulant child, "Dannie! Make shun quit shinish my fashe!"
In the midst of the mist, however, the visitor would suddenly notice the tense set face, with the two wrinkles graven in the forehead, and the ghastly pallor of the cheeks; and then he would suddenly recollect that it was time he was going on. The woman did not go on; she stayed right there hour after hour, day after day, year after year, twisting sausage links and racing with death.
They tense silence was broken by the bang with which he dropped the chair he had half raised. As he leaned forward now, La Boulaye read in his face the thought that had leapt into the Captain's mind, and had it been a question of any woman other than Zuzanne de Bellecour, the Deputy might have indulged in the consideration of what a wonderful retribution was there here.
Warkworth drew back, conscious of a disagreeable shock. He had been talking in generalities, giving away the future with that fluent prodigality, that easy prophecy which costs so little. What did she mean? "Delafield?" he cried. And he waited for her reply which lingered in a tense and growing eagerness.
One final twist of the lever-handle convincing him that the combination was effectively dislocated, he rose, picked up the lamp, replaced it on the desk with scrupulous care to leave no sign that it had been moved, and looked round to the girl. She was where he had left her, a small, tense, vibrant figure among the shadows, her eyes dark pools of wonder in a face of blazing pallor.
Presently, as he lay back enfeebled in the wash of a spent wave, he murmured with a sick man's voice: "I suppose you haven't got any laudanum?" The girls started into life. "Laudanum, Mr. Povey?" "Yes, to hold in my mouth." He sat up, tense; another wave was forming. The excellent fellow was lost to all self-respect, all decency. "There's sure to be some in mother's cupboard," said Sophia.
Only a suggestion at first a wave of thought caught by her waiting brain, an instinctive intuition, and she started up tense with expectancy, her lips parted, her eyes wide, hardly breathing, listening intently.
"I'm coming! Wait, I'm coming!" It sounded farther and farther off until it was drowned in the distant moaning. "It's he," Warde whispered, his voice tense. "I know where it is; come on," said Roy. "What does it mean, anyway?" Warde asked, as he followed Roy, breathless and in suspense. "What are we going to do? Has he got some some accomplice " "Follow me," was all that Roy said.
Someone was calling them and the call he gave as his own was the Canadian V A X. Then came the following message: "Have you not given it up yet, boys? I did not mean to carry the joke so far. Better go back home." Mr. Perry was waiting patiently for an explanation of the tense interest manifest in the attitudes of the three boys. Presently Cub gave it to him, thus: "We're on the trail again, dad.
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